skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not on Online Education - but I have done a fair amount of work in the industry and this is one of the more referenced books: https://www.amazon.com/Smartest-Kids-World-They-That/dp/1451...

This is a good blog on the state of online education: http://mfeldstein.com/

And a really good article: https://www.fastcompany.com/3062958/how-google-is-schooling-...

To answer why top Universities bet on MOOCs: this is partly an attempt to get around Education's Iron Triangle (ref: http://www.adaptivelearningworld.com/?p=110)
Lessons Learned from Porting 300 C/C++ Projects to Buck Build
Ripple to Place 55B XRP in Escrow to Ensure Certainty in Supply
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is returning to the company
We are trying to do a similar thing with the Elite X3, not sure whether it's one of our big sellers...
Where has this successfully been implemented?

There's a similar mechanism to what you proposed, resident-only parking permits. This pits the business owners against the residents. It also means that a resident can't have their friends come to visit without risking a ticket.

The knee-jerk HN-ism of quick fixes doesn't work here.

The only actual solution is the long-term dual-pronged approach: parking structures in the interim, while improving public transit coverage overall.
unintentionally, since any outspoken libertarians tend to get caught in the crossfire of these witch-hunts as well, due to the whole debate turning into a simplified 'us vs them' situation.
Article notes it is not commonplace for daycare to be included and flips the Apple HQ launch into a personification of Jobs poor parenting of his daughters. They arent exactly wrong; but this is agenda first journalism 101.
Thank you Glen! Auth0 Extend has really been great to work with. Such a smooth experience compared to AWS Lambda.

While we're at it I also want to plug http://sangria-graphql.org/ - the most mature GprahQL server implementation. Oleg - the maintainer - will be attending the GraphQL-Europe conference in a few days, so that's a perfect oportunity to pick his brain about all things GraphQL :-)
Rule #1: don't visit /r/all.

Also, you say you're interested in what's popular. And this is exactly the source of your problem. What's generally popular is what appeals to the widest audience in general population. And that is exactly what you see - "political hate, creepypasta and violence". It's the same in YouTube comments, it's the same in all general-purpose discussion boards. Lowest common denominator.

If you seek sanity, you have to start frequenting domain-specific boards, especially those with actual moderation. Be it Hacker News, topical subreddits, or communities around particular bloggers. People there are still regular human beings, but community focus does wonders to the quality of discourse.

Is all of that sad? Yes. Welcome to the human fucking race.
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One step at a time. In the meantime you're putting money in to the area, which funds development, which funds the next round of growth, which funds more development, etc. If you cut the process off at the beginning because you didn't get to the end-stage goal in one shot, you will never get there.
I think all the walled-garden ecosystems of apps and device interoperability are also contributing to the slow progress on this front. Nobody with the resources to do so wants to develop open protocols that would enable easy collaboration on this kind of thing. We may get there one day, but you'll need to pick Google, Apple, or Amazon and buy your device, monitor, peripherals, and cloud services from just that one company.
Unfortunately, though, a large percentage of Pink Ladies offered in stores around here (Germany) come from New Zealand... and that even though apples are among the fruit that grow well in Germany. I like Pink Ladies, especially for the texture, but I prefer to buy fruit that does not have to be shipped half way around the globe.
As mentioned upthread: therein your problem lies.
Ubuntu Phone is dead
For what it's worth the plugin is using GitHub's GraphQL API.
Snap's Rebound Accelerates After Big-Name Funds Disclose Positions
Ask HN: Any good professional resume writing services?
I am having serious trouble finding a job right now, and feel that among a number of other things, my resume could use a professional re-write. Does anyone have any good experience with resume writing services? What do you recommend.
Was coming on here to post exactly the same; backed it on Kickstarter but still waiting for the device to arrive; they changed the name from Andromium to Sentio (negative change, IMO, sounds like an age-related medical product now), but it's a similar concept. However, I've not looked into the technicalities of Sentio in terms of the issues raised elsewhere on this page, so hopefully they don't have them...
It's not a problem with the garbage collector, just how the objects are referenced. Basically you need to ensure the request reaches a terminal state where you either close the connection (ServerResponse.end) or send a response (ServerResponse.send and similar). All the cleanup happens after you do that.
The LEO payloads for FH and SLS block 1 are similar but SLS can put nearly twice as much mass on a trans-lunar injection. There's also the larger faring size on SLS and future blocks will have more performance.

All of which isn't to say that SLS is cost effective, but it does have capabilities which will be unique for at least a window of time.
Yea, that's not much of a study. The authors didn't have enough data to really understand why buildings were getting demolished before 50 years. Defining them as "wood", "concrete" and "steel" is far too broad of categories, for one.

A steel warehouse that was put up with the lowest cost bid is easy to demolish and rebuild with better, newer materials/technologies after 40 years or so. A state of the art office building is not.

How old is the Empire State Building? Do you think it's getting demolished any time soon?

Do you really think building construction techniques and materials of 50 years ago are comparable to the techniques and materials used today, especially on the Apple Campus?
Electromania – Sky High (vizz remake)Hope you like this gyuyzz
I find bundling Git support with Atom is a requirement, VSCode does it.
>he had to guess what the subject would think

Yeah, that's just not ethical as far as I'm concerned. When you're guessing about consent you should assume you don't have it.
I agree - it's more like saying something like this may happen in the future so we'll put out a low-end prototype and you let your imagination do the rest. For robotic food delivery to be competitive a lot of things are still missing.
I don't think there's any question at this point that Spanner is really cool. The vast majority of cloud databases out there (even brand-new ones like Azure's Cosmos) are still implicitly trying to convince you that not having ACID transactions is something that won't matter very much, and that scale is by far more important, which isn't true. Google hasn't taken that approach with Spanner, and it's a breath of fresh air.

I'd throw one downside out there though: lock in. While queries use standard SQL syntax [1], all write operations are performed via a very non-standard GRPC API [2]. I think the team certainly considered this and weighed the trade offs, but it does mean that after you're on
Spanner, you're on Spanner forever.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/query-syntax

[2] https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/rpc/
My son and I have settled on Gala and Fuji as our go-tos are the farmers market. I actually arrived at the same conclusion as this article about "Red Delicious" - it certainly is red and that's the most that can be said of it.
One thing that I find somewhat surprising will all stories involving slavery is how masters are consistently portrayed as assholes in a way that goes further than what would be a "normal" master/slave relationship.

Even if you think as a slave not as a human being but as, say, a working dog, or even a nice tool, it is not proper treatment. Most dog owners genuinely love their dogs and don't punish them more than what is strictly necessary. Most people naturally respect and grow attached to their "partners", whether there are humans, animals or even inanimate objects.

So why do slaves, who are are capable of empathy, speech, and everything that make us human get treated worse than a mechanic's favorite wrench?
Thanks for sticking with Scaphold. We'll be bumping up the power of permissioning soon! We've been focused on implementing more features with our schema and custom logic in the meantime :)
Fuji are also good, but yeah, honeycrisp are definitely the tastiest apple I have ever eaten... I was brought up on galas and golden delicious and I had no idea that apples could taste as good as a honeycrisp does
That was a good article, thanks!
How does Voten purport to solve those problems? It sounds like less of a Reddit problem, and more of a Gabriel's Theory† problem.

And given that currently you cannot create your own channels on Voten (subreddits), it sounds like the moderation problem is going to be an even bigger nightmare than on Reddit.

† https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
How does the Machine recover from software errors? If it has only persistent RAM, then when some important program goes bonkers (it always goes), there is no luxury of pressing the reset button to get back to a pristine state.
> File storage is not where we want to earn our money

Why not sell storage at cost + 15% or something similar? You could also simply offer some type of GCS or S3 integration so that your users would provide their own buckets but use your fantastic API.

> I think it would be awesome if someone would create an open source content editor for GraphQL apis.

Hmmmmm (wheels turning)
On the other hand we have done things they wouldn't even imagine.
It's a tricky question. Visual Studio Code (probably Atom's chief rival at the moment) has git support right out of the box, so there's a plausible argument that it's a must-have feature. GitHub is less clear.
It's also one of the only such moments in the movie where you clearly see the horror and gore. You've cherry-picked the one contradiction.
It's not the same thing -- the phone runs Android for phone-mode use, and "Peek under the hood and you'll find rock-stable Debian Linux" for the desktop mode.
Has this been GH's eventual goal in developing this thing? Playing the long game?
Did YOU read THE Fowler's account?

"For example, Fowler wrote that she also spoke to the company’s chief technology officer, Thuan Pham, about a termination threat Fowler’s manager made for reporting his manager. That type of threat is illegal under equal employment laws."

"... he replied that he had been a manager for a long time, he knew what was illegal, and threatening to fire me for reporting things to HR was not illegal. I reported his threat immediately after the meeting to both HR and to the CTO: they both admitted that this was illegal, but none of them did anything."

Or did you read the telephone version of her account that Recode decided to spin and blindly made up your mind?

Which one is it?
This is the bargain you make when you talk to a journalist, you get your side of the story on the record, but you usually have no control over where the journalist takes it. You're not comfortable with that, don't speak to journalists. Barring outright misrepresentations by the journalist about their intentions, I don't see anything wrong with this.
China Pumps $24.7B into Financial System
I can't tell what I'm looking at with all the mirrored surfaces. Looks like the inside of a vegas hotel room.
Let me rephrase rather. a scale out architecture with commodity machines (using Hadoop, kube, mesos etc.) versus an engineered system in hardware. A client purchased a an HP super dome (another highly engineered system) the cost per CPU core, gb ram, tb of storage was horrendous. More than 10x comparable commodity hardware solutions. 8 months later and they hit performance problems, space issues and adding capacity is a serious chunk of change.

What I am trying to understand in what use cases would this make sense?
Hackers still 100m email addresses from DocuSign
I think it was only a stereoisomer that caused trouble.
I thought it was pretty real-world concrete issues.

e.g. SQL is used by a lot of almost-programmers: doing data analyses, accounting, reports, marketing, etc.

Basically trying to get Hacker News out of its own bubble :).
That's like saying a nation is one community. It's not. It (usually) shares a language and some common values, but otherwise there's greater diversity within a nation than between nations.

Still, there's a lot of truth in "When you say X sucks, You're really saying that your friends / the people you're following / the communities you visit suck". It literally takes seconds to join or leave an on-line community. On the Internet it's more true than anywhere else that you get the communities you deserve.
Doesn't Apple have laptops in their current lineup which are less powerful than their top of the line phone?
Where "very usable" == "sounds exactly the same as lossless", unless there's some double blind study showing that people can reliably tell the difference between v0/320 mp3's and lossless... I've never seen one.
Emacs tutorial – Splitting the screen and switching buffers
Huh. I guess there are people who moralize about apple varieties.
It sort-of is a new trend.

http://brutalistwebsites.com/
I host my email at runbox, but many other providers offer catchall on custom domains. No need to host your email yourself.
Look up the history of Theater Bizarre and go down the rabbit hole at your own leisure.

Edit: Sorry that feels very google it for yourself. I don't mean it that way. That's a good starting topic to find the other crazy things that happen here. The Dirty Show is another one.
Of course, VSCode also supports TFS, Perforce, and Mercurial via extensions:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&ca... Providers
This is basically impossible: for strong consistency, you need very accurate clocks. Google installs GPS clocks in its data centers.

Also Bigtable, Spanners predecessor, is not open source too.
I guess that's my point, in a way. I've got my phone everywhere, but its utility is inherently limited by its power. My beefier machines are powerful, but inherently mobility-limited by their form factors. Plugging the phone into a dock or something increases its I/O abilities, but doesn't give it the extra benefits that make the non-portable computers useful.

> and peripherals are ubiquitous.

I'm not sure what you're specifically thinking of, with that. I know that I've got many more PC peripherals than phone ones.
"Getting food to people who live far from farms—sometimes hundreds or thousands of miles away—is costly and strains natural resources."

For many foods, more gasoline is used getting it from the grocery store home than is used to get it to the grocery store from across the world. Ships and trains and large tractor trailers are quite efficient.

OTOH using artificial light instead of the sun to grow food requires huge amounts of energy.
Do you mean acoustic noise? Both noise and aesthetics are far simpler problems to solve than autonomous learning. I don't think there's much of a market for realistic, quiet robots until the central problem has been solved.
how does a decentralised mesh network cross oceans?
Nuclear weapons in space can be dropped on Earth with very little warning. An ICBM has an obvious launch flare but nuclear weapon equipped satellites might be able to deploy their nukes with almost no warning.
This transition from end-to-end differentiable 'black box' systems to multiple networks dedicated to certain tasks working in conjunction is interesting and very probably the idea that will keep this field going. We might not fully understand end to end systems in as much detail as we'd like to, but this abstraction layer enables us to at least know what part is doing what, empirically.
This is fantastic, excited to try it out.
I wonder what their moderation is going to be like; it looks like you can't create your own channels (subreddits) yet, so the admins are on the hook for moderating the entire site, yes?

Or are they going to take on a complete hands-off approach?
As long as they make it easy to hook up to a competing repository solution, like Gitlab, I'm fine with it.
It looks like they run android when you are in "phone" mode, then when you connect it up to a monitor it boots Debian
We're hoping to add more compatibility layers, but the semantics of reading updates within a transaction are what gave the team pause. If you don't need that semantic, it's relatively straightforward (I assume we'll see this happen either directly by us, or from the community).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, but not on Spanner.
The thing is, even if a rocket blows up and a few dozen pounds of uranium get strewn about, it isn't anywhere near the disaster people think it is. Until we can rationally compute dangers instead of simply assigning infinities to the dangers, we're not going to get anywhere.

There is ~4.5 billion tons of uranium already in sea water [1].

If that fact surprises you, you may just have not known it. If that fact scares you or makes you want to deny it, you're probably still stuck in the irrational fear I'm talking about. The world is not a pristine place with no radioactivity in it until Man comes along and somehow, like, manufactures it from nothing but his sheer Evil for the nefarious purpose of destroying the environment, mu-hu-ha-ha-ha. It's a thing that's already out there. It's not that terrifying if we take basic precautions that, it turns out, we already take because you know what's way scarier than a few dozen pounds of uranium falling near you? A flaming exploding rocket falling on you. So we already don't launch over cities and such.

And we really won't progress as long as people can not only act irrationally about the real dangers, but think they're being more moral by being irrational about the dangers than people actually using their brains and that it's vital to yell at the people using their brains and attempt to socially pressure them into just going with the herd and assigning infinite danger to the scariness of OMGRadiation!!!1!.

[1]: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph241/ferguson2/
It was a 3rd party contractor working on the campus, and since it was subcontracted to me, I'd rather not share who I worked for. I'm not sure they'd want it advertised that they were sourcing from CL. :)

http://imgur.com/a/222IM there some some basic photos I have from my phone, though. All of these were made out of fire retardant plywood.
Scott Alexander recently covered this phenomenon here:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservative...

(see in particular section III of the article)
What you're describing are separate concerns that I'm sure will be addressed before they're brought to market. Currently they're focussed on getting the robot to be able to learn from example. Spending a lot of time on aesthetics at the expense of getting the learning to work doesn't make sense at this point. You're exactly right that they're focussing on the technical problems: that's what needs to be solved. Once it works as expected, then they can focus on improving the aesthetics. A startup that focussed on making robots that look good but aren't effective at accomplishing tasks would likely have a very limited market.
Child care is a competitive business that can almost always be provided better and cheaper elsewhere. So it's much better to use stipends to subsidize employee child care.

Having child care is also an expensive distraction and liability for management. Do you want to deal with employee complaints over childcare hours, personnel, facilities, etc, or do you want to spend your time thinking about how to better sell product and keep employee's employed? What happens when an employee accuses a child-care worker of hurting their child?
Depends on your goals and budget. I've seen a lot of cheap hobby servo based arms. Precision is awful, payload is miniscule. OTOH, you will learn why precision is important :) and you will learn the software of arm motion planning.

The next step up in cheap arms is to build around Bioloid/Dynamixel style servos, which will increase the budget significantly, but you will end up with useable but coarse precision. Meaningful payloads will still cause servos to overheat but at least those brands will shut down rather than smoke -- usually.

If you want to do serious research you will need a serious budget. Arms are hard. This is not to say you can't have a lot of fun and learn a lot with something less. A friend build a smart task lamp around Bioloids -- the goals was a lamp that would autonomously aim a work light where he was soldering by following the soldering iron tip using CV and a cheap web cam. This is totally within the payload and precision limits of hobby servos, and the software can run on a RasPi.
Judge bars Uber engineer from Lidar work, demands return of stolen files
I think you would be surprised by how many things they imagined and even prototyped in some form. The Society of Mind videos have some very interesting historic tidbits (and more):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pb3z2w9gDg&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...
I suppose they have a 80GB ssd with the operational system on it.
Cheap venues and next to no enforcement of last call or other alcohol laws, no ID checking, bar tenders and bouncers are often drug dealers... the list goes on.
I think you should take your advice here.

Recode's version:

'In Fowler’s account of her year at Uber, she says that she explicitly reported the incidents of sexual harassment directly to Pham when she ran out of clear remedies. Nothing came of her attempts, she wrote.'

Fowler's version:

'For example, Fowler wrote that she also spoke to the company’s chief technology officer, Thuan Pham, about a termination threat Fowler’s manager made for reporting his manager. That type of threat is illegal under equal employment laws.
'
I don't believe you but you got my upvote anyway.
It's not long before a huge chunk of food service jobs will be automated away by robotics, and that will likely include sandwich making.
Here's a few more alternatives: https://www.inc.com/amy-vernon/3-reddit-alternatives-for-the...
Wow - that site is terrible. On initial load I have 3 ads (left side, right side and bottom) that take up 10% of screen each, cover the content and other ads, and scroll with me.

http://imgur.com/a/TKJNC
>a hunter gatherer "living in harmony with nature" actually does orders of magnitude more ecological damage per human than industrialized society.

I'm not sure how this is true. Perhaps you can persuade me?

A one acre garden is not a "hobby" in my opinion. The amount of work involved in cultivating an entire acre is immense. As well, a personal garden is unlikely to be a monoculture which is even worse ecologically in my opinion than a loss of efficiency. Plus there's all that Round-up...
Blackairplane has been acquired
The article mentioned that thicker skins on the apples make them less palatable when the interior is soggy/grainy textured.

Personally, I like thicker skins but only on Jazz apples, which are tart and sweet. Red delicious are inferior in that the thick skin indeed covers an undesirable mouthful of mush.
It's more about branding. In the early days, an mp3 could easily be some 64k cbr shite.

If you were sharing, FLAC was guaranteed high-quality and free. AAC/WMA usually meant copy-protected though likely a higher quality.
I don't agree with this article.

Rather than a DayCare facility, just be flexible with your employees when they have to run and pick up a sick child. Let them make up the hours by working at home after the child has been taken care of.