skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me how (allegedly) in the middle ages long lasting contracts where made: tell the text of the contract to a kid (better memory than older persons and more likely to survive the next decades) and slap it in the face so that the kid never forgets.
>One example of this is writing an external ABI in C++. Depending on how nice you want to be to the consumer of your ABI, you might need to add a try...catch(...) to every public function to make sure exceptions don't escape the C++ code.

That's not "required" if you write the C++ code yourself though, as you can just refrain from using (throwing) exceptions in the first place.

That's what the parent means.
Many years ago while backpacking around Japan, my wife and I started playing the claw machines every time we were waiting for trains or buses. We ended up getting "the knack" and would win things pretty regularly.

One night we went to go camping. While waiting for the bus we realized we didn't have a torch, and there were no shops around.

Luckily at the bus depot there was a claw machine that had a combination clock/torch/radio... and our claw machine skills actually paid off!
A few questions need to be answered (that I couldn't find trivially on Google):

1. What's the average income of parents whose students get in?

2. What's the discrepancy in the admittance rates compared to the city on a whole? [2]

3. What's the discrepancy in the likelihood of admission as a function of the parents' income?

Black people and women only recently were able to go to school at all. Is it shocking they are not able to succeed at a test that judges them on skills that haven't been as cultivated as their majority peers?

Also, competitiveness is not fairness.

[2] http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled/2016/03/11/new_york_matc...
Unsurprising, the UK is a mass surveillance, dystopian state. Every packet sent over the internet is captured, and the UK has the highest security camera density in the world. Assad would kill to be able to so conveniently collect even half the data that the GCHQ collects on a daily basis.

Nevermind the nanny state about porn, both viewing and creation, or drugs. Makes Washington State or Colorado look like lawless states in comparison, and yet they still have a ton of nanny state rules that help no one.
I wonder why he implemented a | b as (a & b) - ((a ^ b ^ -1) + 1) instead of (a & b) ^ a ^ b which seems much easier.
Generalize much.
digitalzombie says:"... 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."

There is no evidence that more education makes countries more competitive. It certainly elevates the level of social and political discourse(just look at Egypt!8-)) and makes life more pleasant, which are certainly desirable goals. But our commonly-held belief that education (and especially, re-education) will bring about a resurgence in the economy is misguided.

"where has all the education gone?" - Lance Pritchett
https://www.google.com/search?q=pritchett+%22where+has+all+t...

There is also little evidence that education will reduce inequality:

"Why More Education Won’t Fix Economic Inequality"

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/upshot/why-more-education...

the source paper:
http://www.hamiltonproject.org/papers/increasing_education_w...
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Still their money is certainly landing in some pockets relevant to those communities.

A company doesn't need to be built on a single language.
Ugh. This very pretty site should be called garbagequalitysmallstory.com instead. It's nothing but a 2 minute video clip where you learn, in order, that there's a man named Chen Zhitong who won 15000 stuffed animals from claw machines last year and won so many toys that they filled up his apartment. Basically just what it says in the submission title, but in 2 minutes and dozens of ad requests instead of 5 seconds. That's literally the entire thing. There's no article, there's no more content. It doesn't say why or how. It doesn't have pointers or hot tips or history. At all.

> He told us how—and why—he's made claw machine mastery his vocation.

Maybe he told them, but they definitely didn't include it in the video.

Sites like this one are why I use an ad blocker. For 2 minutes of entirely content-free drivel, ublock origin stopped 40 requests.
The 8-Bitguy (previously the iBookguy)
>the reality is that the only reason why C is still around is the long history it has and the dominant position it used to have.

Those are not idle historical reasons.

They actively translate in important benefits that other languages lack.

Like multiple vendor support, fast compilers, great tooling, editor/IDE support, numerous libs, easy cross platform portability, good documentation, lots of available work, and lots of other things besides.

Even if Rust is a safer/better C/C++, for example, it still lacks most of this things. It's a single vendor language, tied to LLVM (with whatever this implies for the platforms it supports), it has lacking tooling and support, etc.
I use Python because:

- it's a well designed language

- it has a great ecosystem and community

- it runs fast (enough for my purposes)

- it looks enough like pseudo-code that translating what I wrote on paper into a program is that much simpler.

The fact that it can be used both for teaching computer science in colleges and children how to code speaks volumes about its versatility and approachability.

I use it mostly for web apps, APIs and miscellaneous scripts. Python has been a great addition to my tool-belt. There are some languages I hope I never have to write again; Python on the other hand is something I'm going to always keep in mind, even if I spend most of my days writing another language.
My nephew vs. ML
You should put some contact info in your profile so people can reach out to you directly.
Of course things have not changed. All the negative media needs to play out, then a period of time needs to pass so people forget, then you'll see the changes.
Is Single-Gender Education Better for Students?
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I wish, but the fact that there was a WWII does not hold out much hope.
In many US states, having a lockpick set without being a licensed locksmith is illegal, and you can be charged with a felony.

However, no police officer would ever identify a few bump keys on your keychain....
I grew up doing X and it didn't kill me is a really weak argument. Many people do DANGEROUS_THING and don't die! But statistics don't work that way (+ survival bias if you want).

The thing is, the world is really diverse. In some countries like Japan they eat A LOT of fish, but I'd say it's mainly fish and not seashells. In Valencia (Spain) and nearby towns for example there's a lot of mussels and we also eat many small fried whole fish, which I can see how they probably have a larger chance of containing plastic than a piece of fish meat.

And that is Spain and Japan, developed countries. There are lots of places where people cannot choose what to eat. And she is not even saying NOT to eat fish, she just says she doesn't eat, the reasons ("with a substance we still don’t really understand") and a possible solution:

- There are steps we can take on the community level to make seafood safer. We can demand stricter and more specific labeling guidelines from federal food agencies and fish distributors.

- the only ways to mitigate the problem are to reduce our reliance on single-use items and avoid products wrapped in excessive packaging.
I remember Cliff giving a talk at Sequent in Beaverton. Two indelible impressions were the energy and enthusiasm that Cliff had ... and the person in the front row tossing Cliff something to eat every X minutes.

Felt very much like a hummingbird or something that had to eat 2X their weight every day.
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As with everything in New York location matters. I live in Williamsburg on the water probably one of the richer areas of wburg. But just 10 years ago this was a dangerous area and so the public school we are zoned to isn't good. It will be in 10 years when gentrification is complete.

Other places like Tribeca public schools are great because it's completely gentrified, but for now its SA for us and then private in a couple of years.
>However, OSes have been written in Lisp, and it has been used for embedded programming, so it's possible to make a language with more abstractions available similarly performant.

You can use anything for writing an OS or an embedded program, if you expand the scope of what people consider an OS or an embedded program.

While OSes have been written in Lisp, no mainstream OS people actually use has. Experimental research OSes don't really count. People have written such things in all kinds of languages, even Java.

And while you can use whatever language for "embedded" programming, actual in-the-trenches embedded programming is done mostly in C, in chips and specs where those other languages wouldn't really fit or be performant enough.
A delightful presentation style, even in the case of some problems. Calm and yet friendly.

At some point TV presented people as someone to look up to, at least a bit. You can still see it in the archives from eighties television over here. Maybe the barrier for entry was so high, so by the time you got there, you had the "father/mother figure" style down. Nowadays it's all the opposite.

I've been at home in flu for a couple of days, can anyone recommend any good youtube channels? Even BBC Earth looks to be a breathless barrage of words to "make you excited".
The second video spends most of it's time trying to bump and shows how the key is extremely strong even though it looks frail.
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Another entry in the long, long list of reasons why I'll never move to the US.

I'm having trouble imagining the environment that would give rise to such comments. Carelessness? Callousness? Either way, I don't want to be there. Ireland is nicer, and Denmark will be nicer yet.
I stopped reading at the implication that truck drivers are suffering from automation. They might in a few years, maybe, when Otto is mainstream and can actually handle "last mile" driving, but in the meantime, trucking companies are hiring rather aggressively right now from what I can tell (Swift, for example, has been breathing down my neck for weeks just because I put in an application on a whim - without even a Class A permit, mind you, let alone any experience behind the wheel of a big rig).

The reality is that driving a full-on tractor-trailer setup is way more complex than ordinary automobile driving, and carries way more safety implications. That means a much more complex (read: expensive) autopilot system is necessary to really replace the meatware behind the wheel. I'm all for automating away the simple parts, though, thus leaving the hard parts to the driver; that's doable with today's tech.
Maybe that is true for SLC. But how would you explain the million dollar houses and mansions in Park City, Provo etc without upper class? I see kids driving brand new cars and trucks that their parents bought to the SLC community college as well. My parents told me to use the bus.
Indeed they do. Certainly not an ideal situation, though.
Yes, there are many cases where the body's immune system can completely cure a modest cancer infection. I believe the common term used by doctors is "the tumor magically melted away". However, if the immune system leaves just 2-3 tumor cells left that are not targeted, they can grow back into a full tumor.
Why domesticated foxes are genetically fascinating (and terrible pets)
Why do you have to believe that?
I'm normally a big fan of The Atlantic's longform pieces, but this one really missed the mark with me. It certainly doesn't justify its length, and it only gave passing mention to the simple fact that companies sell what people want to buy.

People seem to want hope right now, and there is endless hand-wringing about how we can fight the rising nationalistic nastiness in the world. Rebuild stronger local community ties? Be more mindful of small acts of kindness? People have their own ideas, but that's what they want to buy, so that's what companies are using in their ads.

I think the author got the causal relationship backwards. Marketers aren't arbiters of what people think is good or right. They just do their best to express those values as they see them in the current zeitgeist.
That's an average of 41 every single day. Who spends that much time with claw machines??
I think the EVVA MCS is one of the most interesting locks because of the clever use of magnets for bitting

http://www.evva.co.uk/products/mechanical-locking-systems/mc...
> If you can lift up people in situations like that, I'd be much more impressed.

> But I think the lack of a real lower and upper class would make mobility look artificially better.

I'm a bit confused. Aren't these contradictory? By not having poverty haven't they achieved the raising people out of poverty bit already?
Marshall Plan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
You just can't really expect proprietary software to be actively maintained indefinitely for a one-time fee. Add to the financial (and ego-) incentives to downplay security issues, I really don't think people should consider anything but open source password managers.
I'll be frank, the only way someone gets to the point where they are making $150,000 a year is by doing a lot of work up front and then getting lucky. You have to get a degree (or the work equivalent), build up experience in the industry, pound the pavement for clients, prove your ability to them again and again. Then you have to hit the niche jackpot where you can work very little for a lot of money (at least until a competitor comes along).

I would paint you as the exception, not the rule. You had the right knowledge, the right skillset, and the right contacts to get you a job 99.9% of the current workforce would kill to have. Not because they are too stupid to do the same things you do, but because they weren't as lucky as you.
Warning to others: that first link had some crazy spam that opened a cacophony of external links to various adverts and was on the verge of crashing Chrome for Android before I killed the process.
ab - https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html
I'd argue the Economist generally doesn't stray too far from the neoclassical synthesis (i.e. what most would generally call 'mainstream' or 'textbook' economics).

Just a small aside: if someone is sceptical that climate change is occurring, logically that should not indicate how they view environmental regulation in general (in cases where they agree some environmental harm is occurring). I realise this might not always be the case in reality. If someone tells you they don't believe climate change is occurring because they oppose environmental regulations, it's a pretty good indication that they're full of it.
Its funny, because the very same idea popped into my mind a few minutes ago, while I was eating bacon and fresh vegetables. Not eating algae and looking at a photo of bacon ;). Simply that is how people work.
> I suspect Salt Lake City has a much lower amount of special needs students.

With less abortion I'd guess there's a higher prevalence of, for example, Down's Syndrome.

http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/test/ci_13891834
The Renaissance Mathematicus (Thony Christie) has this personal remembrance:

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/something-personal-y...
Maybe if everyone had to serve we'd achieve the same. Forcing people to talk about some of their profoundly dark times often because they needed a job isn't the way to go about it.
A brief history of software engineering
Interesting that I don't see a single positive comment here. There's definitely an absurd amount of marketing-speak, but this seems like a good idea to me, and a logical progression for Creative Cloud. Photoshop (and probably other CC products) has a ton of places where a little ML could make things way simpler for the user.

Although it is funny to think that Adobe is starting to become a data company in order to add features to their products.
A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof–and Nobody Notices
> they can keep up bringing new stuff into their high-end phones

Please no .. if they could start bringing less features but well integrated and thought out ones, that would be awesome.

Right now they seem to see their products as a collection of random gimmicks without thought or cohesion.

The placement of the sensor of their new phone makes me think that they have not changed their way of thinking just yet ...

As of what matters in the long run, sure they can get away with mediocre products right now. After all, even the worst phone on the planet (and I am not saying that it is necessarily a samsung phone) is still a marvel of technology.

However, it makes them open to competitors bringing better products.. IMO the low margin game is what really protects them and matters right now.
Because of our brains' instinctive perception of the trap, maybe.

We automaticly find ourselves wandering around the surroundings pictured in these works, but we can't really wander, because it's like a hamster wheel (or let it be a hamster cylinder) - there is no horizon, so it restricts our ability to dream about & expand the fantasy world. No freedom for our imaginations there.

Thus, it's actually a good thing to feel uncomfortable. It tells about our eagerness for both physical & imaginative freedom, IMHO.
> But I think the lack of a real lower and upper class would make mobility look artificially better.

I'm not sure that's artificial. Everyone being middle class would mean everyone has the resources available that make it practical to improve.
While it can be done (use the secure hash to generate a key stream--but first google it because I bet there are some pitfalls to keep an eye on), I assume that the parent poster meant to indicate a symmetric encryption algorithm like AES (as opposed to asymmetric PGP), instead of a hash algorithm like SHA.
one is on the front page. the other was not. more people vill upvote if also others do. social proof.
TidyTab – a Chrome extension for storing tab state (Vue 2.0)
As an April Fools next year I'm going to experiment with writing code this way to see how my coworkers react.

Pointing at screen and shouting: "It should throw an error if the input is NaN". types furiously
I left them out because the purpose of schooling is not to serve the administrators.

In any event, MIT grads may graduate with debt, but I think (as a whole) they'll probably manage just fine.
I hope you don't have the opportunity.
Thanks; I'm in a similar situation myself. I'll look into those references.
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Abolishing wage labour, which I believe can only be done via putting the means of production and land capital (i.e in totality private property) in control of and ownership of the workers (i.e all the workers) collectively. The creation of direct democracy councils (with delegates subject to instant recall) each with completely voluntary participation. No council rules over any other council. The workers use the collectively owned machinery and resources, and take home the product. Those who do not work get nothing, unless having prior entered into agreement with a council for charity. Workers may form groups in which each person's products are 'pooled'; the distribution of these is decided democratically, for example workers may agree to give 10% of their product, or the whole surplus product to the elderly or infirm. Though this is just an example.

Managerial positions are of course kept (as managers are wage labourers too), the only difference is that there isn't someone at the top to collect surplus labour.

This is otherwise known as anarcho-Communism, or some variant of social anarchism. I am reading into communalism too (Bookchin) and the question of how those in service jobs can own their labour is an interesting one, I'm not aware of the current research on that.
Samsung probably has the position of strength to push for a phone without play services.

However that's a lot of stuff that suddenly needs to be replaced and I don't see Samsung able to pull of correctly half of Play Services.
> there is no cost to SECRET_KEY = os.urandom

Only if you generate the key up front and use the same value everywhere.

If you just call os.urandom in your app, then the cost is every restart (and every separate server instance) invalidates the cookies.

Probably not what you want.
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G.K. Chesterton on AI Risk
Is there a stdclib which allows for easy replacement of expensive funtions like fsin or fcos with lutables?
Also do those not poison the cache?
@kelukelugames claimed to be male once (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967181), so assuming they haven't changed their gender identity in the mean time, talking about multiple girlfriends does seem to imply polyamory.

Of course I'm a non-native English speaker who has trouble keeping the various context-dependent interpretations of "girlfriend" straight, so I might still be misunderstanding something.
Think if you believe you're able to pick it, then buy one, pick it, post the video to YouTube with ADs enabled - and you'll easily make back the cost of buying the lock.

As for bumping and the key strength, given those topics are covered in the second video, you're comment to me at best feels naive.

Lastly, no system is prefect. Even if the metal the lock is made of was unbreakable and as a result you could 't destroy the lock to bypass it, you could still build a robot that inserts a metal key to turn the lock and dynamically assembles and inserts every possible bidding for each pin.

Feel free to post a lock you like, locks to me are more about simplicity vs security - not some overly complex system will never be used in mass production.
> Yale, on the other hand, is extremely competitive in terms of grading

Nonsense.

'A YDN survey of the Class of 2006 found the median GPA to be about 3.6'

http://yaleherald.com/news-and-features/features/grading-inf...

All the ivies (and all US news top25, really) have grade inflation.

Yale's graduate business school doesn't even have grades.
Proxy indicators.

The economist writes on topics on which I am an expert. It writes on many topics on which I am not. The topics on which I have expertise I find to generally be (a) reasonably well-written, and (b) incorrect within the recognizable error-margins of "well researched, clearly spoke to a lot of people that knew their shit, didn't see much in the way of terrible mis-comprehensions."

That's better than the vast majority of published material on the topics on which I have expertise. I take that as a proxy indicator of the quality of information in the remainder of the magazine. It's not particularly known as being expert in My Topic, so if they handle that well, the rest is reasonably unlikely to be trash.

It can, of course, be trash, and this doesn't guarantee any particular piece of writing isn't, but on the whole, I think my conclusion is reasonable.
Switzerland is using autonomous drones to fly lab samples between two hospitals
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A charming April 1st post. My two favorite lines were "our tools have been rebelling against us since the first peasant stepped on a rake" and "Even a village idiot can fall in love; Newton never did".
Please don't link blatant misinformation on HN.

https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-fukushima-causing-bloody-t...

EDIT: Apparently some people were triggered by my original comment.