skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't want students to cheat or share answers then you wouldn't be getting the questions from a published textbook, regardless of if it was open or proprietary.

How does a proprietary textbook solve the cheating problem? Even a new copy yearly doesn't do much of anything, students can still share answers or pay a third party to answer the questions on their behalf.
You poor man, living in a socialist country... (sarcastic of course)
Balmer's reign also coincides almost perfectly with the anti-trust actions taken against Microsoft. He was given the worst Microsoft to do anything with.
That wasn't what happened though.
> A number of people resolved to restart from scratch; they decided to work in pairs to check each other’s work.

Everywhere I've studied, that alone would have counted as academic dishonesty. If it wasn't an explicit group project, there was clear language about working independently; you couldn't just decide to pair up. Almost everyone, even my graduating class's valedictorian, did it anyway. I was the honest chump and my GPA suffered in comparison.

Discussion of the problem definition was condoned, but any talk about solutions was off-limits. Many professors would include homework sets with a final question asking you to confirm that you worked alone and received no help outside the professor or TA. Some allowed you to admit to receiving help, with no punishment beyond 0 points for the assignment.

I shall assume this guy had an atypically lenient professor for his first engineering class.
I don't understand why whimsical unicode inspires such hate.
TIL Kanye West is illegal in Russia.
Yeah, they do.
Does not the network have are responsibility to evolve to meet the needs of its users?

I had read recently Mastodon quickly had more users on the federated network than the active population of every other individual codebase.
As sort of a general comment on the situation, its informative to consider that when American foreign policy spends centuries on gunboat diplomacy and inequality and immobility in the 3rd world, the citizen response is rah rah USA USA. But when the same policy is applied to the USA itself, suddenly lots of hand wringing about maybe massive income inequality isn't the most moral and ethical system or maybe caste based zero mobility isn't the fairest way to treat people. Well whats good for the goose is good for the gander or whatever trite saying.

Its also useful to consider that the 3rd world has been kept the way it is for centuries, so claims that it could never be implemented in the USA or would never be stable/permanent state of affairs is pretty comical level unrealistic.

Finally WRT apocalypse claims, you have to realize that over a long term and from far away, Central and South America look pretty messed up, especially compared to "us" where "us" is the former western civilization, rapidly intentionally self destructing. Yet, their people none the less do a lot of smiling, their reproductive success is higher than ours, their lifespan isn't that much shorter... Americas future looks a lot more like Venezuela than Venezuela's future looks like America, and that's not really all that bad. The future is going to suck, and yes it will be entirely our fault, but its hardly the end of the world.

Look, you make your national political, economic, trade, immigration, frankly "all" policies to turn the USA into Brazil, don't act all surprised when USA starts looking like Brazil with Brazil reduced income, Brazil reduced public services, Brazil housing affordability, Brazil rape and murder rate, Brazil economic mobility. Brazil's got problems, but don't forget as USA dies and turns into Brazil, that Brazil's got plenty of good parts too. The powers that be want it this way and you're not stopping it but you can try to get ahead of the curve. So assuming the USA turns into Brazil what do you do today, so your kids do better in the Brazil-like USA of 2070 than some imaginary dead USA that will never exist in 2070? A cross cultural lesson is nobody ever got ahead in the world by endlessly ruminating on how unfair some awful disaster is unfolding. You can work on thriving in a Brazil-like USA of 2070 or you can feel really really bad about it, now let me know which is more likely to turn out well in the long run.
Wouldn't it be better to explain them nobody is perfect?
Uber is a rival. That they sort of suck at functioning as a consequence of their culture doesn't change the fact that the entire bet is that they get to a dominant position in self-driving cars.

The current human-driver-driven model is a stopgap; they lose a lot of other people's money on every ride. Possible outcomes:

- Uber achieves a credible 1st-3rd place dominance in self-driving vehicles. Investors, frat boys win.

- Uber doesn't. Keeps human drivers, prices surge, Uber tanks.

- Uber doesn't. Contracts with Waymo or someone else for cars. Survives, but doesn't have much more than a crappy brand-name. Joins the ranks beside Yellow Cab.

- Uber implodes in a puff lawsuits, acrimony and skunked beer kegs. Sucks for the investors, but, eh. Uber is a cancer.
It's because we know more about it than you. That blimp you saw wasn't NSA; it was JLENS, which the article mentions but leaves eerily vague.

JLENS didn't have creepy shit on it. It was a test platform to scan for ocean-based missile launches. And there were a ton of people who freaked out about it, mostly the crowd who take dick pills because they think fluoridated water is a government conspiracy to chemically castrate the populace.

Keep in mind that someone has to design, build, operate, and manage this shit. In the JLENS case, it was run out of nearby ARL, by actual human beings you can talk to.

Or, you know, just cruise through town and deride the locals. Fuck 'em, am I right?
I love the Zen book but did not understand it at all the first time I read it (somewhere in grade/high school). All I got the first time around was that it was sort of a boring book about a dude taking a motorcycle ride and there was a lot I skipped over.

Read again when I was a bit more ready to hear it and wow, profound book. The church of reason lecture is awesome. And timeless.

I hope this guy found some peace in his life, I did get the sense that he was struggling but that's just a guess.
Spending a lot of money on healthcare isn't really an inheritance issue. Medical care costs money, and until such a point as we have taxpayer-funded/single-payer/free healthcare in the US, those services are going to be expensive. I'm not sure retiring at 60 with a few million in the bank entitles you to cheap or free healthcare when that's certainly not the case for people retiring at 70 with $150k in the bank.

> Personally I've never been alive during good times, I wonder what it was like?

If that's actually true you can't be more than 18-20 years old at the absolute most. I'm not that much older than you (31) but I didn't know a damn thing about retirement or elder healthcare when I was 20. I'm willing to bet when I'm 50 I'll say I didn't know a damn thing when I was 40.

"Good times" are relative, anyway. Most of the people reading HN are not terribly effected by the overall US economy. Oh sure your SV startup gig might pay you $150k instead of $180k. But the folks here are almost exclusively students or in the top 4-5% of income nationally. Nobody here bags groceries for a living and is one paycheck away from collections on their car or a foreclosure. Those are the people for whom the broader economy has real implications.

I'm not claiming that estate inheritance is divine providence or anything of the sort. But someone has to take possession of estate assets upon someone's death. I think it makes a lot more sense to a) give it to whom/whatever the decedent wishes in accordance with their will; or, b) next of kin. I'd like to think I'm pretty cognizant of my own ethnocentrism, and I'm sure that's more than a little to play here, but the idea that a "random bubba" is owed grandpa's old car makes the most sense to me when it's actually his grandpa and not just an old guy the next town over. Or even more so that it's not the state taking it and just selling it to the public.
So that you're aware, this is nearly unreadable in Firefox on Linux: for some reason all the links are turquoise on pale blue rather than dark blue on pale blue.
For what application?
Stop telling you’re bad at math. You are spreading math anxiety ‘like a virus.’
I work on a busy fire engine in the same-ish zipcode. I can tell you that blue hairs cause a lot of accidents when they are in town. Slowwww and clueless... to be fair, there are several demographics that we suspect get into far more accidents than most others. No data however.
College enrollment has been growing as our nation absurdly stigmatizes not going. Lecturing scales well and doesn't mandate growing tenured faculty, but poor technology leads schools to hire more paper pushers.
> The prevailing narrative is still that, for example, a social safety net stifles innovation.

A social safety net enables one to fail safely but that's only a benefit to those with enough drive to try in the first place. The upper & middle class is more likely to have that because of their upbringing but they are the ones who don't need the social safety net in the first place. What of the rest? What innovative use will they make of the social safety net?

There are other reasons to give everyone a social safety net but fostering innovation doesn't seem to be one of them, in my opinion.
If: 100 phone calls -> 10 meetings

10 meetings -> 1 contracts

To get 100 contracts, just make 10,000 phone calls.

Find your ratio and start from the top.

In the beginning, improving ratio is not as importatnt as increasing your denominator. Just get out there.
Tesla factory workers intensify unionization efforts, file charge with NLB
Show HN: CleanEmail – email clean/organization tool which doesn't sell your data
That also could be because autopilot is only usable on highways (IIRC) and the fatality rate per accident on highways is much higher than standard town/city driving.

Either way there's not nearly enough data to draw conclusions from.
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Vinod Khosla Is Betting on a Handheld Diagnostic Test
Pierre Béziers, in addition to being a great mathematician and engineer, was a great teacher (including when he was ranting about us, youngsters, not being able to solve "simple" mechanical problems !)
It's good to see people investing such effort to make it easy to understand and available to everyone
I've never worked in a place that doesn't have whiteboarding sessions for design, architecture, algos, etc. but YMMV on that one.

In 30 years I've never met anybody that can't write well enough to be read--that counter-argument I don't even understand. ¯\(°_o)/¯

I also do pairing, but that won't solve the introversion issue at all. If anything it might exacerbate it because of personal space issues. Remote pairing is fine for this, and I do that as well, but it's a little weird for an onsite.

I've never had the resources for a short-term contract, and there are often legal issues involved regarding IP, NDAs, HIPAA, whatever. Personally I think that would be the best approach, but you have to get to the point where you want to offer them a "short-term" contract. That's not something I'd ever be willing to do without having a pretty good handle on whether or not hiring them is a possibility.

I've mis-hired precisely once in twenty years. It may not be an ideal process, but it's worked for me so far.
I agree. This isn't a problem with fake news so much as the response to it though.
There was only one accident I'm aware of in which the Waymo vehicle was at fault; the vast majority have been humans doing stupid things like rear-ending them at stop lights and t-boning by running a red light.

(Disclaimer: I work for an Alphabet company.)
they were both political, but TARP was an act of legislation passed by elected political representatives whereas QE* was enacted by an unelected technocrat who made the decision without being politically accountable for it.

now, maybe it was the right call and the (nominally) non-political nature of the Fed board is a necessary arrangement to allow for these decisions to be made where a politically accountable body could never be expected to do so.

or maybe it wasn't the right call and the political act of selecting who would prosper and who would suffer was made by a man without an appropriate mandate to make a decision that so profoundly affected millions of people.
Writing a law that makes basically everyone a criminal and selectively applying it to 'people who deserve it' is the wrong way to approach this problem.
I apologize for the kinda off topic reply; I have no idea why but Google's cookie emoji triggered me into an uncontrollable laughter. It looks so low effort, it's amazing.
When I took econ 101 at the University of Washington there were five professors that each had their own textbook (and maybe a sixth but I never confirmed it).
Probably yes. Sending scores in HTTP requests is such a low-hanging fruit for exploitation.

A friend of mine was responsible for scoring system on games. As they had some real awards (like bikes, tickets etc.) they captured the entire flow of the game with various statistics and later analyzed them for weird variations. That was in Flash and people used browser plugins to slow down the play, that was easy to spot. Of course it won't stop 100% of attacks, but it raises a bar sufficiently to thwart most attempts.
If it does things Google's Load Balancer doesn't do (e.g. TLS SNI) and still does balancing/failover between your backend servers, by definition it isn't worse.

> And downtime is not acceptable for us

You do know the Google SLA allows load-balancer downtime in excess of 20 minutes a month, right?
This is terrible advice. It may be applicable to the hipster culture in SV, but not everywhere. I'm a shy, introverted programmer but at any decent company these are not issues.
> “Why is the unconscious so loathe to speak to us? Why the images, metaphors, pictures? Why the dreams, for that matter.” [from the article]

This is true for majority of us. But for some people, unconscious doesn't even use images. E.g. Aphantasia.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...

What would Cormac say about this? Say if human evolution would have picked up the "Aphantasia" gene to spread then Cormac's main question the "Kekule problem" would dissolve or won't arise.
Sad to see lots of people losing their jobs. I know I'm looking at this with the benefit of hindsight (and this is the first I've heard of Doddle) but I just don't see what the value they were providing here was. The number of times you need to get something physical moved across the city you are in and you can't do it yourself (or just do it digitally) must be very small. The idea of having packages delivered at held by Doddle is you aren't home also seems pointless. The delivery company will leave it with my neighbor or RoyalMail will bring it to the local branch where I can pick it up (or I can have it redelivered on a convenient day, for free, and arranged in minutes on the RoyalMail website). RoyalMail works well, is cheap, and has offices all over London and then there are obviously the tons of other delivery companies (DHL, Hermes, UPS, Yodel etc.). Maybe I'm missing it but can someone explain to me what Doddle was useful for that these other established services are not?
It happens to institutional users also. Sometimes without their knowledge. Things like running a competitors data through a different competitors model and giving them the results, and not telling the source. I've seen this exact issue where a big lender was doing this to others lenders. Through a third party service that replaces whole departments of reviewers.
> 5. The wages are lower, so the best candidates likely don't get involved in startups here.

Ironically, this can be in part attributed to the cost of having a strong social safety net, at least in my opinion. I'd love to be persuaded otherwise.
Ask HN: How do i teach my autistic son to code?
He is 7, and has receptive and expressive disorders in language. On all other matters, he is doing just fine, excels in math and generally picks up new skills rather quickly, other than ones where communicating is a key component. I wanted to know if there are tools, software, apps, games that would help him (or kids like him) learn how to code (any software language) while gamifying. His addiction is beating high scores and achievement unlocking for virtually every game he plays on ipad or PC. Many thanks!
As you saw I didn't say anything about insomnia. That was lazy reporting.

I think we have a faulty premise at play (or just a disagreement.)

> The main reason that CEOs have extra stress and get extra blame and get looked at to solve everything

Is because they are CEOs. The buck stops with them.
I agree "necessarily" isn't unimportant in what you wrote. It's also a weasel word and can be used to make just about anything technically correct.

It's not necessarily a bad idea to edit production live. It's not necessarily a bad idea to have JavaScript on the server.

I agree that a 100% estate would not necessarily leave surviving family members destitute. However it absolute would leave some (another weasel word when you don't have data) family member completely without a means of support.
Thanks to both of you for these. I was looking for resources like this!

To wit: hardcover & softcover copies of both are rather expensive (at least in Canada). If they're in any good shape they run ~$50 to ~$80.

Kindle has them both for $6 and change.
So is there any advantage of using bezier or b-splines when you have nurbs curve?
America could cut college costs by a quarter by making undergrad degrees take three years instead of four.
VSCode provides this functionality(https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/debugging).
its literally what Hillary was accusing Russia of doing when the whole 'fake news' & her emails getting hacked debacle started.
Glad to hear. thx
I think his point is that they crash less than human drivers, especially when only a very small percentage of drivers on the road are human.

Other computers are more predictable to computers than humans are, especially with automatic communication of acceleration, lane changes, etc.
Is this something that would be compatible with a typical 9-5 job? Sounds like you need to be somewhat on-call. Can you be a weekend on-call volunteer?
"promote the general Welfare

I remember this from my citizenship test and always find it interesting that the people who quote the constitution all the time never use this phrase.
"Commuting to the gym would take another 20-30. 1h in the gym and it's 9 (or later). Commuting an hour home and it's 10."

You don't have to go to the gym to exercise. You could exercise at home, using bodyweight exercise and isometrics.[1][2] For aerobic exercise, you can (for example) run or jump rope. Neither of those requires a commute or gym membership.

One good way to get started is the r/bodyweightfitness Recommended Routine.[3]

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Isometrics/

[3] - https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...
'lead the world in preventing tourism' – Theresa May
Hmm, makes sense. I went ahead and added it under pricing. Thank you :)
"The state should not take ownership of my home, my bank accounts, and my assets simply because I die."

This is your personal axiom; many others disagree, including myself. I think that if you want to give something to someone, you should have to actually give it to them. You should experience that loss.

Holding onto everything until it is of absolutely no use whatsoever to you, and then insisting that the wishes of someone who doesn't exist anymore should continue to apply to those physical goods? I don't consider that the same as you choosing to give something to someone, and don't see why it should be indulged.

"It is, after all, their property."

No it isn't. Dead people don't have property. It was their property, and if they wanted to give it to someone, they should have done that while they were alive.

There is a middle ground to be found here somewhere so that people don't give everything they own to their children, who promptly turn them out on the streets in an amusing but predictable turn of events, but the way estate taxes are going (i.e. ever more to the benefit of the very wealthy) is the wrong way.
I never thought to seek out animations for it.

That makes them a hell of a lot more intuitive for imagining "how will my modifications affect the curve?"

Thanks for sharing.
Yeah. I was thinking maybe execs got spooked because the movie didn't make a return on its massive budget but (1) it costs virtually nothing to put the album on Spotify, iTunes etc right? and (2) as you said, the last minute cancellation is just strange because everything should have been worked out already.

An interesting data point is that there was supposed to be an official 'novelization' of the movie that is now in limbo as well. If Hollywood really gets cold feet so easily I hope our campaign can help them change their minds. The movie made $160m worldwide, so there are definitely fans out there--these artefacts don't need to get cancelled. There's also a 'The Art of Ghost in the Shell' book that already came out, so at least that's safe.
>pass out different homework handouts each semester.

That sounds like work, we are talking about academia here.
Tragically, I bet this is all too common. Wansink's mistake was blogging about it.

This emblematic of a larger problem with how science is practiced: the obsessive focus on p-value thresholds leads to irrational practices like trawling data for interesting "findings."

But on a certain level Wansink was right: a data set is not completely worthless if it showed a null result. So we need to start thinking about how to communicate the value of data even when the null is not rejected.

One way to do this is to encourage widespread sharing of data sets regardless of the outcome of the experiment. Maybe for a given study the data did not show a definitive result - but does the data point to potential future paths of study? Maybe another researcher could get ideas for new experiments.