skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the irony is that "could of" is often considered a nonstandard dialect form of "could have".
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This looks very interesting.

I recently had to teach a series of workshops on SQL and I was trying to figure out the best system to allow students to independently work with small datasets without having to install any software. I found Alon Zakai's absolutely fantastic version of SQLite in JavaScript here:

https://github.com/kripken/sql.js

I coupled that library with a CodeMirror editor and got a working web based environment very quickly.
Windows Defender updates (malware definitions and engine updates) don't run on the same schedule as other Windows updates-- they're downloaded at least three times daily, and installed immediately once they're downloaded.

IIRC, they're also not disabled by the UI switch that disables other Windows updates. A user would have to go pretty far out of their way in mucking around with things that shouldn't be mucked around with in order for this update to take "weeks" to propagate to them.
All jobs suck in their own special way. Improving your response to your environment (stoicism, seeing the humanity below the artificial surface of the company, seeking out the good people at your work place and working with them, etc.) is far more important for personal happiness than a specific job in the vast majority of cases.

Given the uncertainty we are facing in the world and economy, a high paying, secure job and a low burn rate seem like a very good situation.
Sounds like they adapted LEDBAT delay measuring tricks.
That doesn't make it right. You can get away with ("afford") lots of things that aren't correct to do.
Yes it's a bit of a crutch. I prefer it to Thunderbolt's default view, though.
I'm surprised an Amazon Echo accessories category hasn't really started yet. I could see kids loving a pair of googly eyes on their family Amazon device 8-)
Amazon is literally an online store. A vast majority of their sales comes from selling things to you. Including the damn Echo this service runs on.
At work, I routinely have a copy of SQL Server Management Studio open for the odd ad-hoc query I need to run against our ERP system's database.

This tool looks like it might be a useful replacement for this purpose, especially if it can handle CSV data, as well.
> ignorance

Indifference in this case. Anyone could have remembered or imagined what the day of a student is. They just didn't care
I think you could make the metric useful by filtering out Social Security and Medicare which come from different revenue sources then the General Fund. At that point a direct population comparison becomes much more useful
If you don't particularly want to play it, I can recommend watching the SOMA "movie", which is all cut-scenes (and relevant gameplay) collected into a single movie (with zero commentary added).

I did, and enjoyed it, and I don't think I would've enjoyed playing the game as much, despite playing a lot of games in general.

Here's the one I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV_WfrDPUL4
IP is a factor, but it's actually much more sophisticated than that :)
I am shocked--simply shocked--to discover that most teachers do not bother to view the experiences they supply from another perspective!

The tragedy of this article is that any lessons learned from such a stunt will not likely survive long enough to make any actual, substantial changes in public school pedagogy.

Students will continue to sit down and shut up, as they are expected to passively absorb all information given to them, to be regurgitated on demand. It would be difficult to change that even if you had the force of a published, peer-reviewed scientific study behind you, rather than just two days worth of anecdotes.
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A lot of people who say this still bring in the smart TV. Or the comcast remote with a Mic. Or an IP camera. Or a cellphone. What's so different about this?
I'm trying to decide whether this quote is a deep insight into efficient pricing or consultant-level cognitive dissonance and self-justification: “This is not a matter of stealing more money from your customer. It’s about making margin on people who don’t care, and giving away margin to people who do care,”

Leaning towards the latter.
Yes it seems the complexity of billing still has something to do with Who Pays.

I had a similar issue where I was billed for a physical that my insurance provider would not pay. My wife suggested I have the Dr. office re-code the bill. Not sure what that is but I contacted the Dr. office and explained that it was not a wellness check up but an annual physical that my insurance should cover. After arguing for about 10 minutes they finally agreed to re-submit to insurance under that code... and it ended up being covered by insurance after all.
This is an age old (in lisp circles, anyway) argument that has never been resolved, and probably never will. Hygiene has pros and cons, after all.
...there was a good deal of sarcasm and snark directed at students and I recognized, uncomfortably, how much I myself have engaged in this kind of communication.

No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!

(All in all, I agree, this should have been obvious without having to shadow any student at all.)
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> And it should have a modern UI with at least conversation view like Gmail.

I never really found the conversation view of email very useful (especially if there are more then two people participating in the conversation). It's hard to tell who replied to whom and you can't really get context if there are responses to multiple parts of the message they're replying to.

I do have a strong preference for the threaded view that Thunderbird has now.
RingByName

You need to link the skill with a RingByName account in order to use it. Yes, it works well. However, Amazon's speech recognition from Alexa is a challenge for names. Works fine most of the time for American names, but it struggles with foreign names. Results also vary depending on the accent of the user, so our skill always repeats what it got from Amazon to make sure users don't call someone else. We had to do some "magic" in the backend to try to find a contact even though an exact match wasn't found, which works very nicely.
Those are reasonable things for a government to spend half of its take on. The other half...
Replace ghost stories with the creepy house at the end of that old road having an old woman in who eats children if they try and get their ball back, and turns them into puppets making the next victim watch the show, then. And it's totally happening because I heard a crunch one time that must have been bones.

The fact that it's possible to eat a child or make a puppet does little to make this kind of thing much more realistic.

The much simpler answer is that you are more predictable than you think, and likely more influenced by things Google can watch (clicks, ads) than you think. You also don't spot when it doesn't recommend something so accurate so it could even just be chance (or at least doesn't mean they're good at it)
I think, in Tech, it doesn't matter because we tend to be more privacy concise. Some of co-workers have never created any social media and accounts and nothing shows up for them when you search for them.

But in other fields it might be different story. My wife is a recruiter for a large hospital. She has told me that while this is not official but usually if an applicant doesn't have social media profile, they usually move to bottom of the list. Most of the recruiters are young there, and they find it weird/suspicious that someone is not easily searchable.

My wife's recommendation is to at least, have a profile with picture and hide everything else.

However, for senior positions, they don't usually care so much for profiles as most of applicants applying for those positions don't really have any social media profiles.
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That may be true if your goal is to advance programming language research, but if your goal is to extend a language being used in industry then you don't have the luxury of spending that sort of design and implementation effort if you suspect that the extension will be a boondoggle (especially since backwards-compatibility promises mean that you'll be forced to support those features for the rest of time).
I find this question interesting because over the past year I've been reading everything I can find in the library about work, the history of work, pride of workmanship, craft, job satisfaction, motivation, and so on. There are two schools of thought (at least). On the one hand, some people strive to find a great job that's instrinsically stimulating and motivating. On the other hand, that can't be a universal human need: the world needs ditch diggers, too, right? So the other angle is that it's not what work you do, but why and how you're doing it that matters. Are you finding/creating challenges at work and growing in your skill? Are you using the excess money surplus for worthy causes, or are you squandering it on empty entertainment and vain pursuits?

I don't know which view is right, but the philosophy is fascinating.
TV manufacturers seem to be really averse to just making an awesome display. They have to value add features that open security holes and are so poorly maintained that in a couple years you'll need to buy a new TV.
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You have a classic case of the golden handcuffs. Been there couple of times. You have a couple options:

1. Ride it out and make it a better place. Be the person who improves Con #2. Usually, it takes a lot of time but it can be done by slowing making improvements toward a new stack. That will phase out Con #3. Help define Con #6 so you have some vision. Con #6 is caused by Con #1. Develop your resume with side projects OR using new stack at work (new stack in production code is worth much more in an interview)

2. Look at another job. You're right when you say other places are the same, but not all. If you find yourself preferring to be sick than to go to work, then it's hi time to change (been there) as you're not doing yourself or the employer any favors. You may need a change of scenery and the money is not worth it at that point. If necessary, take a money hit and move on.

A lot of it boils down to either money (which will come in time), or enjoying your job. If you're lucky, you can get both.
That is true, but personally I think about that as coming "after" all the ownership stuff checks out, and as an implementation detail that I can usually ignore. I do keep it in the back of my mind though.

Btw I have a saying: when you teach, at first you have to lie a little. You paint the broad strokes, then you refine, then refine again, etc. So it's a question of what is a helpful mental model. Knowing the optimization behavior is helpful for some things, but for figuring out valid memory behavior it's useful to pretend you don't know about that.
It might matter to mood, but it doesn't matter in terms of weight gain/loss.

You could eat nothing but 1000 calories of pure sugar a day and still lose weight
This effectively makes the Echo Show a circa-1995 video phone for remote grandparenting.
Save up some money, get an offer at another company that you think will enjoy (even if for less money), and bounce. Life is too short to work somewhere you hate.
I think they are held to a degree - mediawiki is open-source and devs can contribute. I guess scrum coaches or other kind of management is harder to use this way, you still need core team working full-time, but I don't know what they are doing.
Until the first zero day is discovered.
Really? Ignoring Echo Look (which is invite only and for fashion) there will now be three:
1. Echo Show $230
2. Echo $170
3. Echo Dot $50

These three are very different in terms of hardware and price.
Ask HN: Coding and beer. Is this a thing? Silicon Valley seems to think so
So, I'm just curious, after having seen the TV show "Silicon Valley" and how the primary coding room at home of our boys is littered with IPA bottles, is this something people in startups often do during the day? Anyone have experience? Personally I code a bit better with a little beer but wondering how widespread people's experiences are with witnessing or participating in this. Is it a part of startup hacker culture like energy drinks are?
Nobody pays enough. SS is pretty darn generous. Get ready for 50% SS tax when more people retire and the workforce shrinks, or substantial means testing. One or the other will happen.
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It's all still quite new, and the drive to compete and gain market share keeps them separate, as it does in all industries. There will be consolidation in time. For now, it's a mixed blessing, but mostly a blessing.
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I was actually thinking about this precise issue this morning (due to this GitHub issue[1]). I think a valuable middleground would be to include this kind of check even without the ?Leave stuff. In essence, the compiler could just give an error if it would have needed to issue a Drop call anywhere for the type.

This ability is pretty useful when dealing with destructors that need context that you don't want to always wrap with the given type (sometimes for performance reasons).

[1]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues/1216
Care to level-set on the tech stack? How "old" is the old tech stack?

Is it "old" like Rails 4? J2EE? COBOL? Mainframes?
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<q>Is it NSA enabled</q>
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Yet another missed opportunity for Google who purchased Grandcentral all those years ago. They already have call metrics for android devices. They could have had it for all the folks who would have dropped their PSTN lines for a Google Voice appliance as well as call history for anyone they called. Thought they wanted that kind of information but apparently not that much. Must be low value relative to web searches?

Would love to see a hack for Google home / Amazon echo that just turns them into dumb SIP devices. :-)
I'd wager monopolies and old tech correlate pretty well...

Consider industries that are growing for your next move: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...

Usually a lot more opportunities, a lot more shuffling around, and need good talent to continue growing.

Monopolies do not have a need to be innovative to stay competitive, so you'll be stuck with old technology for a while.

I was in a position i hated (dev lead with micro-manager), but i had extreme flexibility to take my time. took 2 years to find my next move, got a 12% bump in base, plus 5% more for annual bonus. I've loved it ever since, challenged every day, never looked back.
I wonder what the Amazon strategy with this is, given they invested through the Alexa fund.
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Almost 10 percent of Dublin workers are software developers
Sadly, I suspect I've seen this. The particular developer is a coding monster and I suspect he was just underutilized.
Damn that thing's almost $400! You're right, they'll be dead.
Also known as "the Scala problem" (and I say that as someone who writes a lot of Scala).
"Fair" aka "Missing features".

Is there an OS alternative to Google Analytics that's comparable in featureset?
Definitely Ruby in general, testing is a core of the language culture.
Thanks! I wish Microsoft would throw the powershell one liner in their document, most poeple interested in this stuff would just rather do:

Get-MpComputerStatus | select 'AmEngineVersion'

Than read a longwinded set of commands. PS. Cool technique with the parens.
In what country was that? What is the inconvenience of delaying the knee surgery (e.g. can you walk/drive/work)?

Would you be able to cut the waiting time in this country by paying more? What would be the waiting time without paying extra (which I'm sure the insurance company would not approve) in the US?
I honestly think that with the use cases the Echo Show would be much more useful had the static structure has a rotating base, which allows the Echo Show to rotate to the source of voice command (disable-able via setting for privacy concern). That would allow ultimate versatile use for its screen to offer the same hands-free experience.
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The author is Yuval Noah Harari who also wrote Homo Deus, which is a much much more in-depth treatment of this very topic. I highly recommend it along with his previous book Sapiens.
We keep our ID blacklist in something like Redis. For how rarely we need to add clients to it, the switch to simple-state JWTs has made noticeable improvements to the speed of our API, especially during higher usage times where our Postgres DB bogs down a bit.

So I'd say the advantage really varies by where you're coming from.
And as with any mental model there are potential pitfalls such as when you tell yourself your willpower has been depleted. You then have an excuse to slack off http://www.nirandfar.com/2016/11/the-way-you-think-about-wil.... I agree it's hard to make the right choice when your tired, but the way you think about it will also affect your behavior.
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Plenty of 3rd party devices support Google voice though.. I have been using a ooba (not sure about the name) for 4 years now as my home phone.
Try finding the first email you ever got from Amazon (or any common sender). In Outlook this would be trivial. from: Amazon, sort by date. With Gmail you can search by the sender, but you have to click through page after page to find the oldest one.
And likewise you could take a knife and cut out belly fat. It is possible. However it has significant negatives that make it unlikely that people will follow through with the idea. I totally agree that if a person is successful at eating only 1000 calories of sugar per day then they will lose weight. But they wont be successful.
I run my own email, on a vps no less, and the only blocklist that has given me trouble is Symantec's (and a bit of Googling at the time showed it had a high false-positive rate).

Google, Hotmail, etc, all work just fine. Just make sure to set up DMARC (DKIM+SPF) and TLS by default.
Yes, poor Nucleus. The Echo line of devices makes it even more versatile. You can call a cheap Echo Dot in the kids' bedroom from your expensive Echo Show in the kitchen. With Amazon's brand and market power, I am not sure how they're going survive.

We reached an interesting point in time where the internet incumbents (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon) can copy and extend any interesting idea quickly. I remember those days when Microsoft and Intel were ruling the world.
> Snapchat, the Epic Privacy Browser and TOR.

One of these things is not like the others.
see also lisp.
Education, Training, Employment and Social services: 2.7%

Defense: 14.9%

Anyone else see something wrong with this ?
Then how come only Amazon gets shit on when they announce new products, while no one blinks an eye at new Google or Microsoft communication-related releases?
I have a membership to the local YMCA, but only have an opportunity to go once a week since I live in your typical unwalkable/no-public-transit suburban area and don't have a drivers license. Used to go a couple nights a week when my daughter still napped and stayed up until 9PM since we could go as a family and have dinner afterward, but now she's in bed by 7:30/8:00 and there isn't enough time.

Another year or two and things will be looking different again, for the moment getting some exercise on a daily basis is still a better spot than where I'm at.
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The deal didn't last very long and I don't think many people were familiar with the idea of a home personal assistant device at the time. Siri was around but I think by that point (late 2014) the hype had faded for that quite a bit. There were a few Kickstarters[0] that were trying to tackle the idea but none of them took off, and Amazon came along and made them obsolete.

The Echo was very, very bare bones in terms of functionality at the start. There were like half a dozen basic commands and that was it, so my guess is people who saw the Prime invitations for it didn't think it was even worth the $99. I just scrolled through my inbox to find the oldest "What's new with Alexa" message I was sent from January 30, 2015, and it mentions adding Pandora/Spotify support as well as making the companion phone apps available, so those didn't even exist for the first few months Echo was for sale.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/607691307/ubi-the-ubiqu...
Not a teacher but an instructional designer. Digital courses tend to have very high dropout rates so my job is to design the best possible eLearning experience with maximum information/skill retention. I credit my successes (apologies for the shamelessness but it's necessary to make my point!) to my being a learner myself. It's simply not enough to know pedagogical, cognitive and design theories and techniques, you really have to become a learner yourself in order to get better at educating.

For example, in design stage where I'm scoping, scripting and storyboarding for a digital course, it's essential to keep close relationships with the subject matter experts and a sample of learners.

For the latter, one-off interviews are simply not enough. It's much more revealing when you station yourself "in the field" to observe and interact directly, so that you deeply understand their problems, work environment and ways of working. Even if you gain no new information, the experience will shape your design decisions and help make the course more "human."

But for subject matter experts, I tend to assume the role of the dumbest learner ever. Actually that's not very hard, I'm a slow learner myself! But by making no assumptions and asking the simplest questions, I find that I can get the course to flow better and much more easily digestible.

Brief stints are still not enough though. Outside my professional life, I take a few online courses to help me stay grounded and informed of the best and worst techniques. (And learn new things!)

So it really boils down to empathy. As educators we can suppose so much, but at the end of the day, it's the learners that receive it all. The closest we can get to understanding them is then to become learners ourselves.
Short codes are managed per country, but within the US just about every true mobile operator should have the ability to work with the same US short code. If they don't support a given code, it is because they choose not to. Part of the approval process for getting a short code is having all of the major wireless carriers sign off on your application.

If Google Fi is using SMS-enabled wireline numbers as opposed to mobile numbers then there could be additional complications.