skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect we're not getting the whole story and the kid was probably asked "why u no in school" and the kid replied "school is boring".

Now realize the disciplinarian isn't a teacher but a member of mgmt paid by beancounters to get the lowest measurement of skipping classes. He's not paid to make sure the kid learns calculus or becomes self actualized.

Under that criteria the logical response is "OK if you think school is boring, try sitting and doing nothing for a week".

Now if the kid had told the vice principal the problem was his dad beats him too much to walk, or he's too poor to afford bus fare, an entirely different response would likely occur. But you tell someone paid to punish you that you don't like being bored, well take one wild guess what your punishment will be?

Its kind of culturally insensitive BTW to go around saying something like a Zen experience is a useless waste of time or as others have claimed, is a form of torture. A second issue is you can go thru life the hard way or the easy way, and there's nothing inherently wrong with a kid willfully choosing the hard way to try it out and see how he likes it for awhile; someone having defined the ethical and moral right choices and wrong choices and a kid willfully tries the wrong to see how it feels, the judgment should end at the point of definition not be continued into implementation; nobody did anything "wrong"; its like talking about the morals and ethics of a physical nerve reflex response from a doctor hitting a knee with a hammer or touching a hot stove with a finger-tip and reflexively snapping back.
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I don't see what's impractical about breathing through a filter and sweeping the ground. Inconvenient, to be sure, but that's far from the same thing.

I mean, I wouldn't do it, but it seems to me that if you're advocating "as far as practically possible" then it would include that.
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Whenever the Feynman Algorithm comes up, I'm tempted to share "Stop Treading Water: Learning to Learn" [0] by Edward Kmett. It's a great talk and I highly recommend it if you haven't watched it (or frankly, if you already have :).

[0]: https://yow.eventer.com/yow-2014-1222/stop-treading-water-le...
Back when I was in college I had a bit of reputation as a "hacker" and one of my friends wanted my help at stealing somebody else's homework for CS101.

Turned out the program we stole didn't quite work and the process of debugging it was at least as educational as starting from scratch.
The more egregious thing schools don't teach is working in large existing codebases, i.e., the skill of reading and figuring out code.

Instead they focus on /writing/ code. In the process of writing code, at least some incidental debugging experience is gained (this article is actually an example of that -- the debugging wasn't formally taught, but the assignment clearly forced the author to learn it a bit), but almost no /reading/ code experience. It took me a while in industry to make up for this deficit.
On that particular point I made a judgement call based on the fact that previous information this source had given me had checked out. The issue of low morale among social workers is a topic that has been widely discussed over the years in the UK along with that of high caseloads. Other people in the town I had spoken to in the health and social care industry also expressed similar sentiment about the state of social services. One of the first 'anonymous source' stories I did at the paper was about the social services and police dropping the ball in a child abuse case where a father impregnated his daughter. So that was the context of my judgement on that particular point.
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Current FAA regulations for rotorcraft require a 20 minute fuel reserve under VFR conditions. So wouldn't that leave only 3 minutes for useful flight?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.151
What's your intention?
When mysterious corporate hijinx subdue a work of art from reaching an appreciative audience, why should The People not demand they Free The Music! Especially as consumers who are willing to pay for the album.

We don't really know what the hold-up is so we are assuming the responsibility lies with the record label until we get a comment. I sent them this email last week but didn't hear back: https://twitter.com/gitsost/status/854018297980887040

Obviously if the conflict is further 'upstream' in terms of personal issues between people who worked on the music or something that's a harder issue to solve. But at least the campaign will show there's demand for the album.
Did you ever read that chapter of Surely You're Joking where Feynman hanged himself from a tree for seven days to learn the secrets of subatomic physics? That's where Feynman diagrams came from.~
Literally hundreds of fans? And here I thought there were only dozens of us.
It's just interesting to see how quickly the flip happened. I think it's in part due to the fact the Democrats have tried, and failed, to capture the business interests the Republicans have largely accumulated over the decades. I even remember back in '98 hearing from folks who called themselves the "new" Democrats which were supposedly business friendly but also socially progressive. Clearly that approach didn't work and I don't think it'll ever work since businesses have no interest in pushing for social change when largely it doesn't improve their profits. So now the Democrats are going back (sorta) to their roots of being for the "little guy" but the fact that folks like Pelosi continue to squawk about being capitalists shows how fake that change is that it amuses me to no end. The fact Pelosi even freaks out at the idea of single payer healthcare proves the Democrats can't or won't really change and this is all for show.
They can do it in 5 days, but most of the time they want you on there longer. It means they can both conserve fuel, and have you spending money for longer once you're captive.

Source: I worked on cruise ships for a couple of years. FWIW the crossing I did with Holland America took 6 days.
As a matter of fact, I have been using Manjaro right now. Thanks for clarifying that Arch does infact beat other distros in terms of speed.
I would have to strongly recommend against number eight. It's almost impossible to be done tactfully and it's even harder to avoid the appearance of using your friends.

If I built something cool that I genuinely believed one of my friends would find useful then I would wait for them to seek me out with their problem and just give them perpetual free use with no strings attached and write it off as marketing.
sad and pathetic, some really great speakers but I wouldn't go near that shit hole and I sure as fuck wouldn't pay because I'm a straight white male.
> like Uber doesn't have a legal department full of people whose job is to study such things.

Uber certainly has people in the legal department to study such things. They also clearly have accountants calculating if the chance and cost of being caught is greater than the rewards of breaking the rules.
Indian education boards to stop artificial grade inflation
Great idea to name file with your book "book.pdf"
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I think we did reward lying. We didn't intentionally reward lying, but that's not what I meant. We don't intend for this to happen, but that's how it works out the way things are set up.

The ship is going down fast, but how much money did they make in the meantime? Will the CEO's salary and bonuses be clawed back? I doubt it.
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Cool, do you mean physical pinball machines?
1. I scoured the reviews of similar apps and listed the main feature requests that were being stonewalled and implemented them.

2. I then set up keyword alerts for Reddit and Twitter and when somebody mentioned [similar app] I popped in and suggested they try Lanes which, btw, has feature [similar app] has not implemented.

3. I got lucky^. Photos of Lanes began appearing on Tumblr blogs (the #studyblr community) and readers began asking 'what's that website on your laptop'. Queue, lotsa signups.

4. The next 100: I listened to the first 100, intently.

^Of course that stroke of luck would never had transpired had step 1 not helped me figure out how to add value.

The app is https://lanes.io
What do you define as "American"?
I'm not particularly fond of either, which is why I presented them as examples of why we need better journalism :)

To me both organizations embody a mediocre beltway mentality that isn't beholden to any one party or caucus. It's a thought process that props up lobbyists and thinktank lickspittles as overnight "experts" on whatever country we're thinking about bombing next. They're the kind of rags that will call Kissinger "a statesman" in his obituary. They present heated debated nestled snugly within the Overton Window to mask a neoliberal consensus. Not a fan at all.
Many of those "old dumps" were either exempted or grandfathered from the 1991 implemented federal rules for groundwater quality.
The liners sure do help, but they are only a temporary fix because "it's widely recognized that even the best installed plastic liner will succumb to deterioration and eventually will allow leachate to be created and released." [0]

I also never said anything about recycling everything, but at least putting some effort into recycling would already go a long way.
According to EPA data [1], the majority of municipal waste disposed of in US landfills is made up of organic materials: 29% paper and paperboard, 27% yard trimmings and food scraps. That's 56% of the landfill of which much could be recycled instead of just being dumped, with composting people can even recycle some of that stuff themselves at home and get some quality fertilizer out of it.

The only thing stopping this from happening is the laziness of people who rather want to dump all their garbage into a single bin/bag and be done with it because waste separation is not considered "practical", even tho there are plenty of countries who've practiced it very successfully for years already and as such are leading the "recycling race"[2].

[0]http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/La-Mi/Landfills-Impact-on-G...

[1]https://archive.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/municipal/web/pdf/ms...

[2]https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/03/04/the-co...
I tend to agree, but that's not the same as the bit I quoted. The problem is not that you are trying to affect what other people can or will choose (because that's the whole point of a primary), the problem is that you are subverting the intent of the process, which is to allow members of that particular group to collectively limit their own choices.
Indeed, but I find that I am happier when I assume everyone is being honest. When in doubt I just ask pedantic questions. Dishonest people usually have tells when you take them off script, even though they rarely admit it.
Two that I listen to every week are Giant Robots and Startups for the Rest of Us - they have a lot of broadly-applicable startup info, but are also primarily focused on SaaS. I wish there were podcasts on building/growing/running downloadable software product-based startups.
When the gimmick is that cool, I think that's okay.
What would be a better[0] way to normalize it and still make sense for most people?

[0] for lack of a 'better' word. better being mostly subjective.
OP thinks pretends like Angular is the only JS library, obviously did zero research (expressjs is like flask), then baits further with "When will this stupidity end?"
Did you hire a trainer? I'm thinking that might be something that makes a difference for me. A bigger financial commitment plus a human being that is expecting me to show up would make it more likely that I follow through.
His point is that university is here to produce/teach knowledge. Skills should be learned elsewhere, e.g. in schools prior to that. The university's official language is also a skill that is very important to the student's success, but the university is not responsible to teach this language skill. You must have it to enter university.
The FAA would never require aircraft to fly over roads. These things (if they can actually be made to work) will be subject to the same regulations as any other general aviation. We are decades away from having autonomous flight control systems which can be certified for carrying passengers and flying through regular airspace.
> Gym is marketing bullshit

I totally disagree. While you can absolutely get fit without a gym, it's difficult to serious build muscle mass without lifting weights.
Try basketball at the local Y or park. Or swimming. Or Raquetball. I hate running and walking too, but I love competition and performing. The being in shape part is just a bonus.
Yeah! It's a social score-ranking app for physical pinball machines. We recently broke 1k users and 20k scores since release this past June.
Good question! Had to look it up in the paper, and it turns out they use wood screws.

Either regular ones using a long screwdriver through one of the bottle's mouths, or more specialized double-ended screws (with two points) that let you grab the bottles and counter-rotate them to drive in the screw in both bottoms.

Neat, I hadn't thought the bottoms of PET bottles had enough material to make this work, I would have expected bolts with nuts, i.e. more metal-to-metal in the fasteners.
It's probably some stupid licensing issue. They'll have found out that a background sample in one of the tracks is actually copyrighted by some obscure artist who's demanding 50% of all revenues, or something silly like that, and they'll be running around behind the scenes trying to fix it.
You can just get monochromatic yellow LED nightlights.
This kind of licensing shenanigans are just terrible, whatever the subjective quality of the work behind. Has "Her" soundtrack by Arcade Fire been made available anywhere yet? The only way to listen to it is apparently to get it bootlegged, maybe this one will suffer the same fate.
i dont think google is behind the PR stuff either way but wouldn't this just be hedging bets if they were?
I think the unspoken fear is that bringing down Uber means pulling a big card out from the house of cards. The money that has been pumped into Uber simply on hopes and dreams of a utopian vision of autonomous cars all controlled and operated by Uber and the schizophrenic valuations would have to face their day of reckoning if Uber is even just slightly acknowledged as being rotten. The emperor does in fact have the most wonderful clothes on indeed, because we all agree he does.
The people not choosing to compete and instead seeking cooperation will be at an individual disadvantage compared to those that compete, so it's hard to get people to cooperate on a massive scale because it's often a rather selfless act.

This is not an insurmountable problem by any means. Group competition occurs on a variety of levels. Nations compete. Ethnic groups compete. Political parties compete. Businesses compete. Individuals compete. When competing as groups, there just need to be benefits shared among the group (i.e. a reason for people to be a part of the group) and ways to punish free-riding (i.e. ways to prevent people from receiving the benefits of the group while not contributing to the group).

The point I'm making, though, is that if any of those entities chooses not to compete with other like entities, it will dwindle into irrelevance or die out. That entity will not be making the world a better place by choosing not to compete. Instead it will simply be replaced by other such entities which are more inclined to put their own interests first, as has happened to countless other nations, ethnic groups, political factions, businesses, and individuals that did not compete successfully for whatever reason.
I take it you're not a Warhammer 40k fan.
How did you set up the reddit alerts?
It's the first time I hear that anybody got taught debugging, honestly.
I would imagine a series of questions that you answer about the plant would help increase the accuracy. (Leaf patterns, etc.) Or, at least, whatever answer it comes up with should confirm the defining characteristics.
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As you can see, in Turkey this vendetta was not unending - it ended when all the Armenians were dead or driven away. So I fail to understand what's the long-term downside for Turkey, given they were never punished.

Yes, the world became more violent and hateful (Armenian terrorists blew something turkish up in France AFAIR), but that's outside of their borders. Inside borders they were a pretty successful country to date.
I left an employer a few years ago to take a remote work job. Hearing from some of the employees after I left, HR took that to mean I left because I didn't want to work in an office, and instituted a "work from home with manager approval" policy, where you can request WFH days and as long as your manager agrees, you can stay home. Of course it means you have to plan ahead to bring your laptop, and if you have a desktop you're stuck working over RDP, and the helpdesk/support guys aren't eligible. And of course this only applies to IT, which was like 20 people out of 2000 employees.

Still, it's a step in the right direction I guess?
For some "quick" money I'm doing a small Phoenix app that is doing CSV processing/formatting and is going to be an adsense page. I'm looking into doing a full blown Elixir/OTP app that handles X12 EDI parsing/validating but we shall see. I'm going to start writing the X12 parser soon and will at least open source that.

Edit: I would add I was able to talk a client into allowing me to write their platform in Phoenix and away from the Laravel. So I've been working on that as well.
> Why do we leave material out of classes and then fail students who can’t figure out that material for themselves? Why do we make the first couple years of an engineering major some kind of hazing ritual, instead of simply teaching people what they need to know to be good engineers?

Yeah, this is horrible and irresponsible on the university and professors' part. But that's the way it seems to be in most large US universities (anecdotally based on talking to friends in grad schools).

However, decent small liberal arts colleges often do exactly what you prescribe, they correctly try to teach it to everyone and generally succeed. Big box schools are just exploiting undergrads as cash cows, don't attend them or send your children to them.
That's confusing large scale with small scale. You can prove that one time there existed one mistake on one map (or that story is covering up that there was a navigation and/or helm error, or it covering up an even crazier story like hitting a submerged shipping crate or mine or enemy sub). Certainly no one has proven the public map is error free and flawless, and given that this is possibly the first time anything like this has ever happened to a nazy sub, every other map the navy has must be error free to a fairly high level.
Haha. We just crossed 700 signatures in about 10 days but consider that these are people who heard of the fan campaign and made the effort to go to the link, fill out the form and sign the petition. The much greater latent demand is clear in the Youtube stats in this unofficial 90 second 'Lights of Soho' clip: it 16,000 views already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSN8ndwJPVo
> Prices were collected from the operator with the largest marketshare in the country, using the least expensive plan with a (minimum) data allowance of 500 MB over (a minimum of) 30 days.

The prices are definitely skewed higher because of these constraints. As other have pointed out more expensive plans often have a better currency/MB value than the cheapest plans.
Though they did get bought recently, so if like me you have a warm feeling towards the company historically, you may want to re-evaluate that. Especially as using mini necessarily redirects all your browsing via their servers (in order to compress it).
> See here for a screenshot of their God View emailed to a journalist without her permission

That screenshot doesn't really have anything bad in it, to be fair. It's a view of their cars in the city.
TARP was a legislature-led bailout, has nothing to do with the Fed. Parent is talking about the Fed bailout, which exists under a number of alphabet soup names (like PPIP), and continued under QE1, QE2, QE3, etc. I wish there was a good do-it-all source I could point you to to educate you on what happened, unfortunately I am blanking at the moment.
I think that's 345 banana equivalents. (Since you can't smoke on the plane.)
I don't know where you live, but it might be worth looking at whether there is a Parkrun close to you. http://www.parkrun.com

I'm in my 50s, absolutely hated running - hadn't done it for 30 years. Started when my wife and kids started doing it, just to help out and got to really enjoy it. Weekly 5km run, hugely mixed ability field, nice friendly atmosphere, nice route. I rather look forward to it now. I also discovered a latent competitive spirit which means that while I puff around the course, I seem to be unable to not sprint for the last 100 meters.
Italy has a formally uncapped mobile Internet, but past a quota it should slow down to a crawl. I really don't know if it does or what the usual prices are because my data needs are very modest. I'm on a cheap offer from many years ago and I pay 6 Euro per month for 2 GB + some text and voice. I use between 300 to 400 MB of data per month, everything else is on WiFi (some GB) because basically there is WiFi everywhere I go unless I'm outside. Add some 50 Euro at home for fiber, but I need that to work (I just did some docker push/pull) so I'm not sure it compares with your 25 pounds for mobile (do you have fixed Internet?). Furthermore it's a 50% operating cost for my business, but same for the phone.
The problem is there aren't that many multibeam sonar vessels in the world.

FTFY.
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My partners and I run a business advertising website in Brazil. Since we didn't have any funds to bootstrap PPC/FB Ads we decided to manually send messages to advertisers (and actually chat with them) running ads on other big websites. That provided us some initial traction without having to put down any money, and also precious feedbacks that guides us through design iterations until today.
Yep. Try that in the business world and your competitor will iterate five times while you're still working on your prototype, and your milkshake will have been drunk, digested, and excreted.
No, developers are not creating slow and bloated sites. This is merely a side effect. They are optimizing for developer productivity without a care for the end user at all.