skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never learned "real" lockpicking, but I'm puzzled at how trivial it is to bypass some lock systems. For instance, the Kensington laptop lock, which was purchased in bulk for all the laptops of a large utility I worked for some years back.

I once misplaced my key, and managed to pick the lock with a small strip of plastic used to bind boxes of printer paper. The longest part of the endeavor was finding a pair of scissors to cut the plastic to the right size.

The lock/cable in question retails for about $40. Assuming we paid half that, we still dumped thousands of dollars on presenting only an image of security.
People really need to stop regurgitating this red herring argument (pun intended): cancer rates are increasing by age group.

Colorectal cancers in young people have increased 40% in just 16 years. Melanoma rates in young people have increased 250% in four decades.
Even if ability has a strong nurture component, one would expect the same.
I know about them. That's why I added my criteria of Turing completeness. But perhaps I am wrong. Has anyone written a production grade regex engine in say, Coq or Agda? Can they prevent all possible invalid states? Can they support searching text of arbitrary length?
My god, they're almost as bad as books.
I mean grow in complexity, not scalability. The crux of the issue, and why all of these type things fail to gain enough coverage to concern me, is business grow in complexity. Each. Individual. Business. Cumulatively it's exponential complexity. These type solutions are general solutions designed as one size fits all. In reality, that usually covers small businesses and for a short period of time. All businesses are niche.

Wordpress, Wix, Access, Oracle Applications, etc. were all thought to solve the problem of development expense and they have all failed. I mean they get some coverage, but once a business grows in complexity, they quickly become obsolete, or in the case of larger apps, configuration is more complex and error prone than developing the application.

They probably don't pivot very well either. Maybe Google will figure it out, but I don't think they will.
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That's like saying I shouldn't say smoking is bad because it's not the action of smoking that is bad for you, it's what is in the smoke that is. Dairy is bad because dairy is a package consisting of too much saturated fat, and cholesterol and hormones which you don't need to consume at all. It's also increasingly consisting of antibiotics and other drugs which are also bad for you.
The $20K per year per pupil that NYC (and other large cities) spends is skewed because of the enormous costs of special education. I don't know the numbers for NYC, but from an article I saw about Philly: cost to educate non-special need child: $10K, moderately special need: (7% of students) $20K, severe special need: (another 7% of students) $40K.

I suspect Salt Lake City has a much lower amount of special needs students.

Still, we spend an enormous amount of money on K-12 education in NYC and other large cities.
"One recent study found that for every one robot introduced to the workforce, six related human jobs disappear. But those six humans still need to get by. " [0]

I am not sure I agree with the definitions and impact of robots in the study. "Automation" helping with efficiency is not the same as "robots competing for human jobs".

"[...] which would roughly double the amount of money going into low-income families’ pockets. The main difference between Khanna’s plan and the Silicon Valley utopianists’ version of basic income is that for now recipients would still have to have a job to qualify. Think of it more as a basic income warm-up."

A basic income (also called basic income guarantee, Citizen's Income, unconditional basic income, universal basic income, or universal demogrant) is a form of social security in which all citizens or residents of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money, either from a government or some other public institution, in addition to any income received from elsewhere. [1]

Welfare is the provision of a minimal level of well-being and social support for citizens without current means to support basic needs. In most developed countries, welfare is largely provided by the government from tax income, and to a lesser extent by charities, informal social groups, religious groups, and inter-governmental organizations. [2]

It's a dog. Only, it's not. It's a fish. But it's a warm up for a dog, just give it a few billion years to evolve. /s

The problem is, next time someone talks about UBI, i'll not be certain what they mean. When too many different idea is lumped into the same word because you're trying to milk the market that invested in some concept related to the word, you just muddy the water. Like "AI" or "blockchain".

I like the idea of UBI[1] but I don't think it will be paid for by a government thats ~$15+ trillion in debt. Feels more like a publicity stunt but I am a pessimistic person in general so maybe I am wrong.

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[0] http://www.nber.org/papers/w23285

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare

Edit: Typos
More than punishment, road design goes a long way towards changing behaviour. When your neighbourhood's streets are designed for high speeds, people will drive at high speeds. Saying "I hit the kid accidentally", to me, seems a bit like saying "I decided to shoot my gun in random directions and accidentally hit a kid, so it's not my fault!". But I am apparently in the minority. It was most appalling when I lived and worked in LA and my coworkers would joke about murdering bicyclists without a second thought; never mind the fact that I kept my helmet on my desk and clearly cycled to work.
I worked at a private K-12 school overseas for a few years which was brutally competitive. We would very excitedly publish our excellent college admissions results and would always be featured prominently in lists ranking private schools in the city and the country.

The dirty little secret is that only about 70% of kids who enrolled in the first-year of the HS would actually graduate from the school. I do think the teachers we had were excellent and did a phenomenal job, but the school was designed to be impossibly difficult. The thing is, with the high reputation, the spots made available by these kids were easily filled by families wanting to send their kids in. It created a nice self-fulfilling prophecy. Anyone who has looked at school (K-12 or universities) carefully and is being honest with themselves, this sort of selection -- in all the many forms it takes -- is the real driving force behind the difference in outcomes observed in student's life-paths post-graduation.
My parents, retirees at 55, didn't pay into the system, as we see it today. My dad got a full pension working a blue collar job, on top of a middle wage salary. He's living off that pension, plus social security.

I can't imagine many people being capable of retiring that way these days; jobs that offer good salaries and pensions hardly exist (mostly in the government), and it's likely social security won't be there for us. I hope I'm wrong on the latter, but it's hard to live on Social Security alone even today.
This makes me think of that 'antifragile' principle. Sounds like a good idea.
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My personal situation: I do work, but probably not more than a few hours a day, and yet make significantly more than most of my peers. I don't work hard at all (maybe once in a while), yet work smart.

By most metrics my life is pretty good given I live a relatively free life without significant stress and plenty of money (not FU money, but I do alright). It also shows that you don't need to work hard to actually achieve something, and can still live well.
Ah. I assumed in this scenario we had some mechanism to determine who is a legacy applicant (or not). You make a good point.
> For a girl raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Salt Lake City is a very weird place. I went to Utah precisely because it’s weird. More specifically, because economic data suggest that modest Salt Lake City, population 192,672, does something that the rest of us seem to be struggling with: It helps people move upward from poverty.

By this criterion, should Salt Lake City be so weird to a New Yorker?

Upward Mobility in the 50 Biggest Cities:

1. San Jose 12.9%

2. San Francisco 12.2%

3. Washington DC 11.0%

4. Seattle 10.9%

5. Salt Lake City 10.8%

6. New York 10.5%
...

50. Charlotte 4.4%

Source: Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, and Emmanuel Saez
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/documents/
Surprisingly, I think that less developed countries are doing better than the top X developed countries. For example, I'm from the former Yugoslav region. Other than the occasional filtering by the mobile providers to give people free access to Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram/whatever, the governments simply don't care about reducing Internet freedoms, and, even if they do, they don't have the capacity (or knowledge) to do so.

Out Internet connections might not be the best (I'm paying about 20e for 80/20 Mbps), but being able to run a Tor exit node for years (before switching to running a hidden bridge) without being worried about having cops at your doors is something nice to have.

You can't even get into trouble by pirating because it's a small market, and major studios don't have offices in those less developed countries.

The only registered way you could possibly get in trouble by pirating is by using pirated Windows licenses in your business, since Microsoft is the only tech company that actually has offices in this region and enforces copyright in local courts.
And where did I say to use them everywhere? I usually use them in let bindings decomposing complex data structures:

(let* ((data '((user1
(email . ("bob@dom1" "bob@gmail" "hey@bob.com"))
(sshkeys . ((default . key1)
(alt1 . key2) (alt2 . key3))))))
(user (cdr (assoc 'user1 data)))
(email (cadr (assoc 'email user)))
(sshkey (cdadr (assoc 'sshkeys user))))
(list email sshkey))

The thing is one would be (rest (first (rest (assoc ..., the other is (cdadr (assoc ..., which are equivalent in effect (and the latter has way less parens). I dont understand why there's an ideological you should use this or you should use that thing going on. C*R stuff is an abstaction over combinations of FIRST/CAR and REST/CDR, and I dont see why they should be avoided at all. They've got their place, and all this thread is full of arguments backed by mere taste.
Anecdotal and unrelated.
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On that note, I'd just like to say Sierra was one of my favorite game companies as a kid, especially the King's Quest series.

On the one hand, I'm glad that Roberta and Ken Williams have lived a pretty awesome post-Sierra life traveling the world on a boat, but the kid part of me wishes they had continued creating games.
Programmable Infrastructure Needs Testing Too
I believe I did.

Firstly, even though milesrout wrote `emphatically`, I believe he meant `ethically` since that is what I wrote which he answered to.

Secondly, and I'm not a native English speaker so I might be wrong, empathically, my comment is still valid. What we do to dairy cows can only be described as a product of a complete lack of empathy for the cows, nothing less.
Why 'jobless' though? Helping with a family business is a job
This is just untrue - you can. Obviously not while living on welfare, but if you're smart about it you can not work hard and live well. Source: personal experience.
The best evidence available currently (See: https://examine.com/supplements/fish-oil/ ) points to an optimal 1:1 ratio between omega-3 and omega-6 consumption.

Since eggs and many other meats are richer in omega-6 fatty acids, for most people eating more fish or supplementing with fish oil helps balance omega-3 and omega-6.
Actually, the recent issue about Trump's presidency is actually quite critical of Trump's attempts to repeal environmental regulations. The Economist certainly likes free trade, but it seems to have a better grasp on the problems of externalities than the typical "the market will take care of the pollution problem" libertarian outlook.
Legacy admissions have become a problem for the Ivies lately because they undermine their brand.

Back in the 1980s you could count on a graduate of Harvard, Cornell, or some other Ivy to be pretty bright, but as legacy admissions accelerated in the 1990s, you started seeing graduates who were average at best. By the 2000s it was clear to the schools themselves that this was a problem because as much as the schools want the money, their brand is their most valuable asset.
bbc2 commissioned this to mark their 50th anniversary. Very funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOlSHw_y0Lw
A strong sense of community anchored on one set of religious and cultural mores generates a harmonious and accepting society?

But what are they doing to make safe spaces for Pastafarians?
> same with a knife

Any knife? You can't carry a pocket knife in the UK? That's ridiculous. Knives were nearly the first tool proto-man ever made, and they're still the most useful general purpose tool you can have.
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Viewing this from the other side of the pond. Legacy admissions sounds like a strange idea and one that would surely raise eyebrows if it could be shown that a child of an alumnus (or alumna of course) was favoured over another applicant who was obviously better qualified.
> If a degree actually meant something it wouldn't matter what school you attained it from

National graduates can't--and shouldn't--be fungible. Harvard, for example, selects and trains for team players. Its graduates can reliably be dropped into client-facing roles with minimal training. They're also extremely responsive to hierarchy. Their campus tradition champions the Socratic method [1] and deëmphasises individual performance. (The joke I've heard is an A is an A-, an A with a glare is a B and an A with a talk is a C. B means you effectively failed.)

Yale, on the other hand, is extremely competitive in terms of grading. Its graduates are ruthlessly ready to challenge hierarchy. This makes them great for internal situations where you need to inject disruption. They need polishing, however, before being placed in front of clients.

High achievers in a field should be diverse, in terms of how they work and approach problems. This is healthy. Degrees mean something. It's just that there's a lot else that's difficult to test for or assess in an interview that matters. What that "else" is varies.

[1] http://casestudies.law.harvard.edu/the-case-study-teaching-m...
I had never thought about it, but "legacy" seems like a very defensible strategy. If students know their children will probably be studying in the same college they have an incentive do things to make that college better in all respects.
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Sure but that's not what I was replying to? I was only talking about Go->C FFI. If someone didn't know about finalizers, then I've might be trying to insert `free` calls everywhere in their Go code, which could become quite annoying.

But yes, Go pointers in C code is bad juju.
Most people who have been through such a thing would very much like to avoid having someone call then a hero.
It wasn't that proprietary. It's the same 3-voice TI PSG used in the IBM PCjr, TI 99/4A, BBC Micro and various other computers, consoles and arcade machines of the time.
It seems wrong to call Facebook and Microsoft "built on" Haskell, even if they are using it effectively for some important things.

Galois, of course, is very much built on Haskell. And there are certainly other examples.
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Token Binding achieves something simular to what you propose. See http://www.browserauth.net/token-binding
This is an amazing hack. So clever.
Some of Greenland’s coastal ice will be permanently lost by 2100
Or more likely we will return to prop-planes like the A-29B* or for faster hit and run strikes a modified jet trainer which is what most 3rd rate air forces actually fly for domestic anti insurgency operations today.

The A-29B is in US inventory and being actively procured mostly for the purpose of assisting 3rd world allies like Afghanistan, and the British version of the navy's T-45* jet trainer have seen combat in the far east.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Hawk
Was the programming interface the same? Curious because I recall "Tandy" being a specific sound option at the time.
If you like external & self-hosted javascript-based comments you might enjoy this toy project of my own:

https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
ahem... A "buffer overflow" is what happens. :P
In terms of pre-loaded crapware, I was really infuriated by their Peel Remote Control app recently introducing a custom lockscreen overlay and ads without any warnings.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/03/29/peel-remote-app-upse...
You should assume that every thing that happens in the US is happening in Canada. As a member of the Five Eyes, the G7, and G8, our policies are closely linked.

I believe that Canada's ISPs might have stricter data protection laws, but really you should have been using a VPN well before this latest policy change.
> they basically learned out of the book and the only "hard part" about the school was a high frequency of difficult testing

I went to Arizona State. This is basically how I learned. That said, the most valuable moments in my college experience were when I made an effort to develop a relationship with my professors (and certain brilliant peers).

The insights from those interactions sound silly in words (e.g. "have your slightly neurotic friend or employee read securities' footnotes with you" or "you can model anything as an option" or "flow separation can be desirable"). That might be why they aren't taught in class. The moments preceding them (missing game-changing information in a footnote, struggling with yet another wonky security, or going crazy trying to control every factor between my computer and metal models) made them memorable. The bigger lessons (use your and your peers' stereotypically "negative" personality attributes as strengths, it's okay to master one thing and bend your universe of problems to look like it, and it's okay to let go of control) would not have been learned, as they were, without them.
answered there, but copied here:

You should assume that every thing that happens in the US is happening in Canada. As a member of the Five Eyes, the G7, and G8, our policies are closely linked.

I believe that Canada's ISPs might have stricter data protection laws, but really you should have been using a VPN well before this latest policy change.
They do cost money, but by not lumping all of the programs into a single lumbering bureaucracy, you can get a lot more fast moving and need specific operations running, in this case probably at the parish level.
I have a couple of girlfriends who moved to/from Utah from/to a costal city. They think it's backwards as hell.
This is a comment that seems to pop up quite a lot in discussions of the capitalist status-quo. (Often in a more confrontational manner, unfortunately.) I want to point out that having a solution is not a prerequisite to talking about the problem - if that is what you were implying - that is getting things backwards.
It's not going to gain traction. Basic income may have benefits but a better solution that can be pass is programs to retrain these out of work people for new jobs. Free education or trade would make us more competitive. A social safety net for those who lose jobs from automation is a reasonable solution.

Basic income is a pipe dream in term of a new idea and we can't even get universal healthcare. I rather have universal healthcare first before this concept.
Just raw per student spending without adjusting for cost of living is silly also. If a Manhattan school is spending 14k per student, and a school in the middle of Iowa is spending 12k per student... do some COLA adjustments and you may find Manhattan is a "deal".
It seems to be feasible in Salt Lake City, though. If the community picks up where the government is lacking, the work still gets done and the poorest of our society get the help they need.
"I suspect Salt Lake City has a much lower amount of special needs students."

Why do you suspect that?

I'm not sure of your overall point, but are you implying it's bad to spend more on special needs students?
As a Utahn, the most disappointing thing about this article is the racial homogeny. It's true - nearly everyone is white. But that doesn't mean that there isn't some diversity. When my father was a Mormon bishop, he would dole out orders for the Bishop's Storehouse to everyone just the same, whether they were white, black, Latino, or Asian - Made no difference to him. They got the same food, but also had to live by the same requirements - coming to church and serving in the community.

I recall one day after my dad was diagnosed with cancer. Out of the blue one of those families my dad had prepared an order for brought over a casserole for our family out of gratitude for what he did - not only for the food, but for helping him get back in their feet. And this was one of the latinix families.

My point is that I wish there were data on what this experiment would be like with the racial diversity of NYC, DC, or elsewhere. While there are Mormon congregations in these places, with the same bishops storehouses, they aren't nearly as pervasive in their communities as In Utah, so it's hard to see the effects of their efforts.
As an engineer in the medical device industry, I would offer that few people are in a better position to come up with those ideas than yourself. You have years of clinical experience, surely you've come across areas of practice that could be improved by technology or existing technology ripe for enhancement? Companies I work with pay good money for clinical input towards product development. If you want to get good input from a technical audience such as ours, I suggest describing your biggest pain points (no pun intended) in the profession.
> I suspect Salt Lake City has a much lower amount of special needs students.

But one could assume the ratio stays the same, and thus so does the average (modulo the notes of other commenters e.g. cost of living).

That however might not be the case, for various reasons cultural (does one population tend to homeschool special needs children more?) and "technical" (do parents of special ed children go to big cities for treatment/infrastructure?).
No.

> Section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 prohibits having with you, in a public place of any article which has a blade or is sharply pointed, (including a folding pocket knife if the cutting edge of its blade exceeds 7.62cm/3 inches) (Archbold 24-125).

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/offensive_weapons_knives_...
It's a downside for me too. I've caught errors and had no one to report them to.
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It does not per se increases violence, but surely increases the impact of violence. Compare a revolver with a semi-automatic or a fully automatic rifle: the speed and efficiency in which you can cause harm increases greatly.

As a result of the development of such weapons, incidents have gotten a worse outcome.

Yes, you'll still have incidents without weapon development, but they'll at least not get much worse if availability stays the same.
My perspective is that the government can operate that way, but the church seems to be the opposite: socially conservative but fiscally liberal. Hence the emphasis on nuclear families as well as giving freely to the poor.