skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's my point expressed in different examples. Standardized testing makes the system easier to manage from the top, and makes the result consistent. Firing "bad teachers" is a complex problem - some teachers can get fired because they suck at educating, but others just because the principal doesn't like them, etc. With standardized rules and procedures, you try to sidestep the whole issue, at the cost of the rules becoming what you optimize for, instead of actual education (which is hard to measure).

> I think a lot of the desire for standardized testing would dissolve if principals could just make personnel decisions like normal managers.

That could maybe affect the desire coming from the bottom, but not the one from the top - up there, the school's output is an input to further processes. Funding decisions are made easier thanks to standardized tests. University recruitment is made easier thanks to standardized tests. Etc.

> I think people have been trusting public schools a lot. That generally worked out great for people in affluent suburban districts. And it worked out horribly for people in poor, remote, and urban districts.

That's the think I'm talking about. I believe it's like this (with Q standing for Quality):

Q(affluent_free) + Q(poor_free) > Q(affluent_standardized) + Q(poor_standardized)
Q(affluent_standardized) < Q(affluent_free)
Q(poor_standardized) > Q(poor_free)

E.g. education without standardized tests may be better for society in total in terms of quality, but then it totally sucks to be poor. Standardized educaion gives mediocre results for everyone.
Why didn't they just package TB3 in with a fiberoptic cable? That can go 10s of feet at 40 Gbps.
Actually this is probably behind a paywall for most people. Here is a brief summary: http://www.livemint.com/Politics/bDNftOxyufek9X8mjFSYLP/Are-...
Clifford D. Simak's "City" (1952) consists of a series of bridges between a number of short stories described as legends of "Man" tolds by intelligent dogs to their puppies. The dogs in the stories were able to start communicating with humans thanks to the work of one of the human protagonists, getting intelligent enough to form a civiliation of their own once humans gradually disappear.

It's one of the weirdest apocalyptic sci-fi novels around, in that it describes the end of the human race by isolation and loneliness and resulting escape into an alien world, while at the same time describing dogs creating a thriving replacement.
They invest more than DARPAnet in programs that get earmarked. Entire jets and battleships are researched, developed, and manufactured for political reasons.

I was saying that just pointing out that programs like DARPAnet might not make up for all the other nonsense.

And we can flip that around as well, maybe PARC was spun off from some successful grants, but we're not taking into account these sorts of failures when attaching the price tag to those initial grants.
GDNative – A scripting language module for Godot
Alternate title: the Un-Reality of the GDP

Rather than this being a measure of energy efficiency or
reduction - could it not be a measure of GDP artificial inflation?

Though that would be a bit of a sensational title, the trend also suggests a decoupling of GDP from physical processes (mfg, service jobs) directly requiring power for their use..
I waited for any game to start and it was Gul bara game, which I didn't know the rules of. I never saw that many doublets in a game.

I also agree that it's tedious to wait for opponents and I think it would be great to hear a sound played when a game starts. I suspect some moves aren't transmitted correctly, but I'm not certain.

Is there a way to select the order of dices in the general rule? Sometimes you roll 5-4 and 4-5 would be a good move with a specific piece but 5-4 is blocked.
Ugh, I've been trying to tell my friend that, but he won't even invest in the most minimal of GPUs.
Agree. A deep dive. Mission-critical, process-driven accountability. Address the action items at our next one on one.
> Hand someone ideally a 3-5 year old an average digital camera and have them walk around taking random pictures where half of them are a blurry mess and the results are much worse.

Garbage in, garbage out. When was it any different?

The question is: can a human do much better on that garbage?

> Public Datasets have style of photo that represent it's own bias.

That I readily agree with.
Thank you!

Hmm, I'm not a native English speaker and the similarity didn't occur to me. Might not be the most fortunate name after all... ;)
Ucretsiz Takipci arttirma sitesi
I do not know Chicago Law, but he likely didn't violate it. He might have violated federal law, but that enforcement has to be done differently afaik. Chicago Police was almost surely in the wrong, and United was in the wrong for calling them.

While one (especially United) might expect this to make no difference, the letter of the law is what should have been followed in this case.

Police often tend to make up nonexistent laws as they go. Those imiganiry laws might even sometimes make sense. But "with great power comes great responsibility" and that responsibility is to only uphold the laws on the books.
Shameless rise of the 'beg-packers'
Hey, I have two Medium blogs that point to my custom domain. They didn't charge me any money, and in fact the Support guy went above and beyond to help me the issues I was having with my domain name provider. But, I see now they are charging $75 for it and I'm a bit taken back.

If all you need is a blog, might I suggest Tumblr? They (as long as I remember) don't charge you a thing. You won't get an SSL certificate though.
Visual Studio's Task List window's Comments view will show comments with the following (configurable) keywords:

• HACK
• TODO
• UNDONE
• UnresolvedMergeConflict
yet another sorry story of a man being driven to the brink of madness by the greed monster.
This is the thing that really annoys me. It doesn't seem that technically difficult (aside from the migration pain) that recognizes product:seller as a primary key, rather than just product.

They're already swimming in reviews. So I can't see them not getting more than they're losing by empowering customers to torpedo bad sellers.

Of course, this would also mean fundamentally changing their logistic practice, which is probably why they aren't interested in doing it.
Mermaids?
I would assume that it's just simpler to synthesize methane (power-to-gas) and use that to (e.g.) fuel vehicles. Assuming you're pulling H from water and CO2 from the air, the methane is carbon neutral, so there's no huge reason to try to transport hydrogen.
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Oh, I get how boring this is but the decision was to take the boring part out first and allow the users to later focus on the real process! Anyway, noted and I'll try to think of another solution!
If that book taught you all that, it didn't do you any service education-wise.

- Eating every 3 hours is useless. It's great for bodybuilders that need to increase or decrease their caloric input fast, because removing 100kcal from each meal yields a 500kcal deficit, and adding 100kcal from each meal yields a 500kcal surplus, which makes controlling weight easier when eating is your job. For most people however, eating often has no benefit.

- Lifting weights is great whether you're a man or a woman. Its benefits are not contingent on having high testosterone. Testosterone will only impact your ceiling and rate of progress but that's ok because you are here to improve, not compete.

- Cardio is good, but the morning part doesn't bring any benefit whatsoever. HITT is great but not recommended for overweight people because of the potential strain on joints and the fact that it has a huge negative impact on recovery (thus impeding the previous point on lifting weights). LISS on the other hand might be boring, but has no impact on joints whatsoever and can even help you recover from lifting weights. Before you go for a sprint, try going for a walk.

- No alcohol - no argument here

- 5 times a week is great if you can afford it, but not necessary - 1 time a week yields a huge improvement over 0, 2 a slightly smaller improvement over 1, etc.

- Sleep - no argument here, most people need more sleep than they think they do, and less time in front of a screen

- Muscle confusion is not a real thing, it's just a marketing term invented to get you to hire an overpriced personal trainer. You should absolutely not change your exercise routine as regularly as you might think. Your body responds to progressive overload of stressors. For instance, doing the exact same movement 3 times a week and adding one repetition to every set every session is taking a stressor, the exercise for a given sets x reps, and overloading it, which provokes adaptation and thus progress. Similarly you can add a small weight every session, or add a set, or combine all of those. This is how training routines are actually build. By systematising progress like this you can measure how well you are responding, and adapt the other variables accordingly (absence of progress often comes from dietary issues, or lack of sleep)

Scientific Principles of Strength Training, by Dr. Mike Israetel, Dr. James Hoffmann, and world-class powerlifter and coach Chad Wesley Smith, is an excellent and easy read on the general process of training.
I like the XXX idiom

//XXX this is bad
//XXXX this is more bad
//XXXXX this is EXTREMELY bad

Allows for easy grepability and a rough, at a glance evaluation of the seriousness of the hack/debt
Agriculture software and agriculture apps for Android phones change the world
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13990391
I'm not going to defend psychiatry as hard science, but it is scientifically-based. Theories exist based upon our existing data. Studies are performed. Experiments are performed. Data is analyzed and old theories are discarded because they don't match the data while new theories are proposed to explain the data. Furthermore, other hard sciences in biology and chemistry feed into psychiatry to provide the basic framework.

The problem with psychiatry isn't that they aren't trying or that they're not going about it the best way that we know how. The problem is that the human mind is still too complex at the macro level to be easily testable. But Science has shown again and again that it's the best way to go about determining how reality works. We shouldn't abandon it now and prefer delusional thinking because it has a minor winner in making a patient feel better. That said, tell the patient whatever he may want to hear in the psychiatric ward. Just don't try to pass it off as legitimate outside of the mental institution.

Regarding capitalization: Sometimes I find it helpful capitalize schools of thought that embody more than just a casual set of principles. I can do some science in the lab, but not really have a lot of trust in Science as a way to live life, run society, and generally approach problem solving. I do the same thing when writing about being liberal vs being "a Liberal".
Me? I try not to. I don't like windows but I don't preach about it. C++, Java,C#, etc. I like em. I prefer Python. But I don't preach about it. Python 2 vs 3? Who freaking cares? Just get stuff done. But I don't preach about it.

I just go about getting my work done.

I think my only true religion is that I want open protocols. Chat, home automation, auto, etc. should all use open and documented protocols.
> I really don't know how to deal with this kind of situation on my own. I've tried everything. The only thing that has ever really worked is the hyper-aggressive "excuse me, I wasn't finished", spoken at a volume slightly louder than the person interrupting (so basically shouting).

I have the same problem and likewise, this is the only thing that I've found that works.

When someone talks over you, you stop, right? And they probably ramble on, oblivious? Each time this happens and you don't act on it, you're training them to talk over you. After a while, they won't think twice about interrupting you, and at that point, you have to be quite aggressive to turn things around.

It's really hard, but the best way to avoid this is train yourself out of stopping instantly when someone talks over you. Instead, keep talking and make eye contact with them. This is a pretty strong social cue to show you're not finished. If they keep talking regardless, then directly comment (and it only needs to be mildly, since we're behaving as if it's accidental) on the fact that you weren't finished. If they're still going after that then either they have a better point than you and they have the authority to interrupt you, or they're being a prat and everyone will be noting this behaviour, not just you.

I'm still pretty bad at this, but I'm getting better, and it does get easier with practice.
There are many reasons to not work on something immediately beyond "nobody cares". I've frequently run into situations where some small hack needed to be used to work around a shortcoming in some major module. Fixing that module might not be something that can be done right away, either due to scheduling or resource constraints, or because that module's owned by some other team, or it's a 3rd-party component, or whatever.

When that thing finally does get fixed or upgraded, it sure is nice to be able to just look up the master ticket for "Hacks to work around X" and easily find all the little things you can clean up right away.

But, of course, if your tooling and team procedures force you to choose between "fix immediately" and "DFC", I suppose that would result in a lot of decisions to not even worry about technical debt. Over time, you could probably even lull yourself into thinking it was never technical debt in the first place.
Connexion: Swagger/OpenAPI First Framework for Python on Top of Flask
Agreed. I poked around for more primary sources but the office of a senator seemed less controversial than partisan news organizations. Actual links to studies would be less useful since the "interesting bit" would be a note about funding coming from the NSF or something.

It's an incomplete and distorted picture of how bureaucracy funds research. I brought it up to add counterpoints and context to the implication that government is actually good at this sort of thing if we'd just get over free market capitalism (or something).
Bitcoin for Real Estate?
EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Companies’ Data Collection
It sounds like we have nearly identical personalities. Long lost brothers maybe :)

Yeah I figured out the confrontational thing a couple of years ago... after not realising it was an issue for about the first three years of my career. When I'm discussing an idea or an opinion, I tend to view it as totally separate from myself. So I really don't mind if someone attacks 'my' idea or opinion, and I'm generally pretty happy to jettison it if it becomes clear that it's wrong.

For those first three years I just assumed other people saw things the same way. Nope. Was pretty mortified when I realised that I'd probably been upsetting or offending people when I thought was we were just having a really interesting and vigorous discussion.

Have you ever taken a Myers-Briggs test? INTx? At any rate, thanks for the advice. It's a timely reminder that I need to put more conscious effort into improving here. It's all too easy to just lapse into misanthropy...
It's a mailing list not a site, but I've been enjoying Cron Weekly recently: https://www.cronweekly.com/

Also, Devops Weekly is where I get a lot of my news: http://www.devopsweekly.com/
That I can agree with. I mean, hierarchy solves problems, therefore is useful. Having a fair world for everyone is a goal, so adjusting hierarchies to help reach that goal is something we should work on.
Patent Owner Can’t Use Foreign Court Order to Block EFF from Speaking Out
You're talking about researching a product in general, I'm talking about buying a SanDisk brand SD card and receiving a cheap knockoff with SanDisk poorly printed on it and totally different specs.

I do think it is Amazon's responsibility to not sell fake stuff. Even buying only Amazon shipped and fulfilled products does not help, as all the inventory is co-mingled by the product ID. They've taken the poor approach of not sanitizing their inputs, and now their product inventory & database is corrupt, and it's going to be really hard to fix.
Fedex is using autonomous robots to essentially replace the mailroom clerk
Why everything is hackable
The captain has every right to remove a passenger because, he is not supposed to fly unless he is feeling safe to fly, he mustn't, and it is assumed that letting 200 passengers fly safely is more important than letting one passenger remain "innocent until proven guilty".

That said, the captain's decision does not make him immune to lawsuits, disciplinary action, etc. but on his plane, especially while flying, temporarily he IS god.
I didn't buy the NES Classic Edition (not interested in living room consoles), but it would be an instabuy if Nintendo made another run of the Gameboy with 30 good games for ~$50.
I still haven't figured out how to play over Giant Steps changes, although shredding through augmented scales has about a 50% success rate.
That data was recorded by the community. It took everyone a while to figure out how to grab a snapshot of the canvas though, so a few hours of data near the start are missing.
I've been funded by DARPA in one way or another and DARPA is not big science. DARPA is an applied R&D agency, meaning they want to see a path from what you are talking about to some broad application, preferably in the military space. If you can't describe that path to them, the odds of getting funded by them are low (this is drawn from experience of winning more than 10mil in funding from DARPA on many different programs).

The DARPA model is also not big science because the researchers on the outside do not pick the problems, the PMs at DARPA do. The model works when a visionary becomes a PM and is given a "big" (20-80 mil) bucket of money to disperse to researchers to enact their big ideas. If the PMs are truly visionary, then this works. If they are not, you wind up with a sort of soup of crap.

Additionally, since it's applied, DARPA will do frequent (once a quarter and once a year) check-ins, measurements, and progress reports. If you don't measure up during those, your funding gets cut. So as a researcher, it is a challenge if what you want to do is a little bit off the path of what the PM wants to do.

I have much more limited exposure to IARPA but it seems to be the same way there.

I have more experience with NSF, which is the total opposite: researchers propose their own projects and there are infrequent touchpoints, and no cut points really. However, NSF will give you one to two orders of magnitude less money than DARPA.
Tailor: streaming layout service for front-end microservices
Well, it could be the wrong tool for the job, eg. I will likely never port my cell # to VOIP, its not gonna save me any money to do so.

Another aspect is the employee doesn't want to think of work when doing something else. For over a decade after my father sold cellphones, he refused to get one as he considered them personal tracking devices. This was caused by Law Enforcement sending him records requests regularly, thus he was way too familiar with how much data AT&T collected about users at the time.
The Finnish system has improved to the point where I can finally say that filing tax returns is a pleasant experience.

We get pre-filled tax forms which include salaries and all capital gains from dividends. If the figures are correct, you don't need to do anything: the return has been filed for you. If you need to change or update the information, then you can do it online.

The only time an individual (like me) has to actually add to the pre-filled data is when they have additional income from properties or land. Back in 2013, when the online system first started to accept rental income, I would still need to fill in every freaking month. Separately. In 2014, I needed to provide the personal details of the tenants, but at least the rental income and expenses could be aggregated. For tax year 2016, I only needed to provide the aggregate income and expense for the properties in question.

My tax returns used to be really complicated, and for nearly a decade the Finnish tax authorities tried to systematically tax me twice on the same income. I used to send documents and letters in every year. But that has changed. When I filed my taxes in March, it took me a grand total of 10 minutes.

If I hadn't had the rental income to deal with, it would have been less than 5 minutes. So yes: it's finally a pleasant experience.
SwiftMonkey: framework for doing randomised UI testing of iOS apps
Worlds Best Secure Email Providers
That's not a manager. That's a boss. And so what? Everyone else who watched it would get a kick out of it and mr manager would be even deeper in respect debt.

Maybe it would inspire others to leave such a crappy job too. Let the miserables commiserate with the miserables.
I have a 2007 17" MBP, fully loaded for its time, that was still giving me great service as a classic gaming machine (via Bootcamp) as recently as six months ago. In its prime it was essentially a true desktop replacement for most work activity. Sadly, it's about ready to give up the ghost. There are fewer and fewer use cases I can justify squeezing out of it these days. But what a hell of a decade it's given me.
Australian Telcos Are Ready to Rip Their Customers Off Their Privacy
Riddle: MySQL exploit
Yup. This is one of those "9 women having a baby in 1 month" things.
Database choice aside, I'm shocked that this wasn't noticed when designing the app... It's clearly not a design decision because they refer to it as an error later in the paragraph.
It's close to $1.5k in Romania so $3k for a US-Japan tax accountant doesn't seem bad at all actually.
Orthogonal? x) Why not "unrelated"?
> It could technically have different quirks that means minor differences could play out.

That could just as easily describe the NES-101 or SNS-101. You can always find some difference if you look hard enough, even with original hardware (hardcore SNES and Neo Geo players care a lot about a console's serial number; a few Commodore 64 fans and musicians care about the date code on a SID chip). In principle, you're correct. In practice, I think you'll have a hard time finding anyone who's genuinely pickier about NES accuracy than Kevin Horton.
I spent a good amount of time working with Brillo when Google was first pushing it. The thing I liked most about working with it was the system they had for OTA updates. Even in beta they had support for staged rollouts with some analytics on the rollout. There was lockin with the solution as updates used Google's cloud and was signed by both your and their key, but it was a really robust system considering how new it was.

I really hope the project gets more attention. Not only was the firmware update system nice, but having the promis of having the core OS managed and only having to worry about your application was nice as well.
Cisco IOS-XR: the buggy XML API and how Cisco does not give a damn