skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct, but it's orthogonal to anything I said. The point I was making is that feudal Japan was an oppressive, nasty place and gunboat diplomacy, while not bloodless (see the internal conflicts of the Meiji Restoration), was a much smoother transition to prosperity for the inhabitants of Japan than alternative interventions being tried elsewhere.

I don't buy the line that coercive actions are necessarily wrong. Using force to remove a dictator that is oppressing its people (or an entire caste of brutal autocrats) is morally justifiable IMHO. And if you compare the American involvement in Japan with the other sorts of things that were going on at the time in East Asia, it was pretty tame.

Historians must restrict themselves to evaluating choices by the standards of the time under consideration. And by the standards of day, the Japanese got a pretty good deal, especially when compared with their neighbors.
So your thesis is that it's silly to talk about school effectiveness because of the larger socio-economic condition of the population.

No.
Depends on the situation, but generally some fairly bad ideas... "node.js left-pad" and "Mark Pilgrim 410"
I know it's hard to imagine, but there are many sides to these stories. Things really aren't so black and white. You really have no idea just how hard these guys worked or the struggles they had to go through. I'd recommend you read Alexis's post from back in 2010: http://alexisohanian.com/keep-calm-carry-on-what-you-didnt-k....

Reddit was born out of the first Y Combinator batch in 2005. This batch turned out to be an exceptional group of people who helped make Y Combinator into Y Combinator. But it was far from a forgone conclusion that they would be successful or that Reddit would one day become a top five website on the internet.

My experience with Alexis and Steve is that they're extremely generous, helpful, and have set the tone for the "pay it forward" spirit of Y Combinator's alumni network. I'd encourage you to wish them the best of luck instead of hoping someone takes them down.
He is having a hard time staying awake! lol
Side topic :

The event loop architecture is also heavily used in iOS / Cocoa, although it is often not well understood by developper. Each thread has an event loop, including the main UI thread, and many weird behaviors can be understood better once you know a bit about them.

Which made me wonder if a simple implementation of agent based concurrency in swift server couldn't simply be one agent - one event loop, plus a way to prevent direct calls across agent boundaries. Server is not iOS, but i suppose some language facilities should already be there and make it easier to implement.

/side topic
Your description is not quite right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Your example is not cognitive dissonance. To be that, not taking the breaks would have to go against a deeply held belief, and make you feel uncomfortable.
I write books and sometimes blog. I keep a file for notes and ideas for future writing. This process might provide you with kickstart material for the times when you are motivated to spend an evening writing.

For open source projects, choose something that you are really interested in and start a public git repo. Whenever you are motivated to work on your project for an hour or two, then add a feature. My friend, it is all about one thought at a time, one keystroke at a time. If you are not enjoying the creative process then stop and start up again on another day.
see Nietzsche all explained there
That is known as a misplaced modifier.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/1/36/
That's a pretty good assessment.

I would note that emscripten's sdk comes with a really great malloc. If you're programming in C++ with a great malloc then your memory allocation performance will be better than what you'd get on the JS side. Be weary of microbenchmarks that try to say otherwise because the reason why malloc beats GCs for real shit is that it scales better. For example, GCs get slower if the heap shape gets weird, while malloc doesn't care about that.

Finally, WebKit's GC doesn't implement the nursery as an arena. I don't think that's such a popular GC technique anymore, particularly now that using non-compacting generational GCs is becoming so common.
Git Town doesn't replace Git, nor does it try to shield you from learning how Git works. It shows the Git commands it runs for you, as well as their output. When using it, one should make sure to understand what it is doing.

The thing is, Git is awesome, but intentionally designed as a low-level and generic tool. Using it correctly for particular workflows (like Git Flow or Github Flow) requires running many Git commands for each operation, and is highly repetitive.

Good developers engineer repetition away. Great developers share what they build. Hence Git Town.
When the steam engine was invented, we thought of the brain as a series of pressures. When we discovered electricity, we thought of the brain as wires. When we got the internet, we thought of the brain as a network. Now sure neural networks have the word "neuron" in them, but they are far far away from the wetware that produced this conversation.
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I had an 8 yr old Reddit account and was recently shadow-banned site-wide for criticizing AMC's video player on an AMC 'sponsored content' post.

The Washington Post is sadly just another corporate nail in Reddit's free speech coffin.
Being a one party place doesn't mean there's no accountability, though. Look at D.C. (a one-party city/quasi-state) for an example. The last two mayors (de facto governors) were voted out, and in the past election about 1/2 of the members of the city council (de facto state legislature) who were up for reelection were voted out.

When you see a lack of accountability, it's mostly a choice being made by people who don't care enough to vote bad politicians out (look at primary turnout rates).
Oh! Please don't feel bad about that. Writing short is harder than writing long. But it's worth it because it respects the time of the reader.

As an analogy, think of those radio talk show personalities that can go on for hours every day just running their mouths. It's impressive, but what they're doing is glib entertainment, a way for people to fill the hours while driving.

These days the world is filled with quickly-made, quickly written stuff. Nothing wrong with that, really. But I love it when I come across people who are doing something different.
I don't disagree with the idea that Reddit is mismanaged, but isn't "born on third and thought they hit a triple" a hyperbolic way to describe the success of one of the top 10 websites in the U.S.? From introducing the concept of subreddits, to actually profiting off of Reddit Gold, to a distributed moderation team (that when it works, works well) there are plenty of places they succeeded. That doesn't just simply happen.
I'd encourage you to go learn about Baltimore city schools. The failing schools being discussed in the OP are Middle and High Schools. Baltimore doesn't have school zones at the high school level. Any student that lives in Baltimore could go to any of the high schools. Some are good others are total garbage. Bottom line, you don't have to move, you do have to be proactive though.

http://www.baltimorecityschools.org/Domain/9530
Would success in education be reflected in some national metric? Productivity perhaps?

Here's a graph of 'productivity' country vs country. But it has no units ... not sure what to think.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/country-list/productivity
Put another way, in John Locke's book published in 1693 "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" he spends the bulk of the book focusing on body and mind as well as virtue and reason, while touching lightly on curriculum in the end...blaming a school is not useful when the pre-conditions to an effective treaching envionrment have not been met
Put another way, in John Locke's book published in 1693 "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" he spends the bulk of the book focusing on body and mind as well as virtue and reason, while touching lightly on curriculum in the end...blaming a school is not useful when the pre-conditions to an effective traaching envionrment have not been met
It's the most used Windows OS, so no surprise there.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fBwfhmg...
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Diesel cars aren't as fuel-efficient as a gasoline hybrid. You're making that comparison via volume, which is misleading because diesel is significantly denser (and, thus, burning a similar volume of diesel releases more greenhouse gases). Do the comparison by mass instead of volume, or simply by CO2 mass emitted per mile, and you'll see that the hybrid still wins out.

Although, of course, even hybrids aren't good enough in the long run; we need to stop digging up and burning buried carbon, full stop. Electric cars do that. Hybrids and efficient diesels do not. Electric cars are a workable final solution that results in a planet that remains livable; hybrids and diesels are not. They don't destroy the planet quite as quickly, but the destination is still the same.
In case it's not clear, "7" and "7 home" are the 32-bit versions. It took me rather longer than necessary to figure that out.

Instead, it now appears, the leading contributor to the virally spreading infection were Windows 7 machines that hadn't installed a critical security patch Microsoft issued in March

I'd guess a lot of those who don't install updates on 7 were greatly turned off by the aggressive Windows 10 upgrade promotions and other unwanted features Microsoft were trying to sneak by as security-related. Those still on XP didn't have to worry about that either.

I remember a memorable analogy about the nature of Windows updates: "they aren't just like vaccinations --- there's also a large chance of making you grow an extra 3 ears, lose one eye, and turn your skin bright green."

If only Microsoft had two "update channels", one for features and the other for security-only fixes...
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I am not a lawyer. My understanding based some number of years dealing with contracts is that binding arbitration precludes the parties' ability to bring a civil suit in regard to the arbitrated matter.
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It's because WaPo and NYT are just propagandists for the US intelligence apparatus which in turn is just a tool of the multinationals and oligarchs.

Real journalism seeking truth, no matter whose agenda that truth might endanger, died years ago.
Do you still have the raw crawl data? If so, have you considered uploading it to the Internet Archive to help preserve it for the future?
> It's impossible to prepare a good tasty meal with a microwave.

That's bullshit. That's so bullshit that France (they might know a thing or two about good food) has discussed passing laws to require restaurants to denote which food on their menu is heated up in a microwave.

eg. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/business/international/in...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/french-restauran...

It was a huge scandal when it came out, because most people didn't even realize their food was being microwaved!

Yes, the microwave does a terrible job of reheating the slice of pizza that was left out overnight, but using the wrong tool for the job doesn't mean the tool is bad. A really good, properly seasoned cast-iron skillet is terrible for making coffee with, but that's no reason to throw it out.

Don't microwave pizza that's been left out overnight. Instead try food from Picards ( http://www.picard.fr/ ). They don't exist in the US but they sell exclusively microwave food, and it's just not on the same level as the sad microwave TV dinners for one that they sell at Safeway.

The microwave's just another tool in a modern kitchen, next to the sous vide machine, the Thermomix, and the Tnstant Pot. The way the microwave cooks food makes for healthier steamed vegetables, though regardless of how you steamed the veggies, slathering them with butter negates some of their health benefits.
Amen. Good ingredients, a love for food and the ability to tune out those that try to explain that one cannot cook or that cooking requires intense training and a container full of tools.
looks like a one man/woman show. the graphs show most of the activity only by one contributor. :(
Check out Berkshire Hathaway's website. http://www.berkshirehathaway.com
Yes, it's a linguistic dangling else.

(I think so, at least. Not too sure.)
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Found this[0] via a cursory Google search:

> The Korean War, a “limited war” for the US and UN forces, was for Koreans a total war. The human and material resources of North and South Korea were used to their utmost. The physical destruction and loss of life on both sides was almost beyond comprehension, but the North suffered the greater damage, due to American saturation bombing and the scorched-earth policy of the retreating UN forces.1 The US Air Force estimated that North Korea’s destruction was proportionately greater than that of Japan in the Second World War, where the US had turned 64 major cities to rubble and used the atomic bomb to destroy two others. American planes dropped 635,000 tons of bombs on Korea -- that is, essentially on North Korea --including 32,557 tons of napalm, compared to 503,000 tons of bombs dropped in the entire Pacific theatre of World War II.2 The number of Korean dead, injured or missing by war’s end approached three million, ten percent of the overall population. The majority of those killed were in the North, which had half of the population of the South; although the DPRK does not have official figures, possibly twelve to fifteen percent of the population was killed in the war, a figure close to or surpassing the proportion of Soviet citizens killed in World War II.

Doesn't quite live up to the parent's exaggerated claims, but still not a pretty picture.

[0] http://apjjf.org/-Charles-K.-Armstrong/3460/article.html
One thing that really helped me understand the JS event loop was that the callback from an asyc call CAN block. Something like

setTimeout(() => {

var x;

while (x < 2000000) {

x += 1;

}

});

will block. Event listeners, timeouts, and xhr requests just wait to receive a response. They're not actually doing anything while that happens. And their callbacks basically just become 'synchronous' when they get that response.
"It’s also important to be patient. College is an investment that pays dividends over your entire working life. If you’re a new graduate, you’ve just incurred the upfront costs of this investment in your human capital, but you have many decades to go to reap the economic benefits of your college degree. "

I must admit, that triggered me. I say that is by far a too comfortable assertion.

> It definitely seems that there's too much focus paid to the automation of transportation and the like, and even though those are going away, it's obvious a lot of white collar/office jobs are easier to automate away

Curiously under examined while the cries for basic income go on, often projected as help for the working/welfare classes. Where do these cries come from? The beleaguered middle classes.

Maybe we should read between the lines. I strongly suspect a lot of middle income people don't have a Plan B more sophisticated than the truck driver (fleeing into the universities is a brainless move in most scenarios) and their incomes have been stagnant for a long time, so they're afraid of falling through the cracks. A just concern in my view. People who deal with a body of information can be just as entrenched in their habits as anybody else.

Some blue collar will be automated of course, but the salient point is that nearly all blue collar labour was already automated in the Industrial Revolution. That which remains will be harder to automate. The most humble of jobs are incredibly frustrating for a robot to operate on economically in human oriented environments.

I'd wager middle class jobs contain a large number of relatively high income but easy to automate tasks.

This coupled with MP and deep learning, well you see the picture.

I'm quite far from a technological utopian, but when Hinton states that radiologists should halt their training, he is not joking.

https://youtu.be/2HMPRXstSvQ

Coincidentally I'm sure, he looks a bit like an undertaker in that clip!
How to increase virtual memory in windows 7, xp, Vista
First thing is first Click on Start button, Then right click on My Computer, and then click Properties button.
2: After Click on Properties you will see a Properties dialog box, click on the Advanced tab in Properties Dialog box.
3: In the Performance panel, click Settings.You can also go to Performance Panel by Opening Control Panel and then click on Performance and Maintenance button.
4: In the Performance Options dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
5: In the Virtual memory pane, click Change button.And Change the Initial size value and the Maximum size value to a higher value, click Set, and then click OK.
6: that’s all done :) Now Click OK to close the Performance Options dialog box, and then click OK to close the System Properties dialog box.
In this study, the JS is on a host separate from the site itself. Malicious JS from the compromised host will not match the SRI signature embedded in the HTML, and will be rejected.

If the main HTML web server is compromised, there's nothing you can do: a compromised web server can send whatever <SCRIPT> tag it wants.
A rails veteran that still heavily relies on ActiveRecord's callbacks sounds a bit weird to me...
Oh, thank you, I didn't know that. It seems real enough.
For others who don't know: taijiquan is more usually called tai chi.
As a kid I remember learning that the atomic bombs contributed to Japan's surrender in WW2, but as a grown-up I also learned that Russia (a neighboring country) declared war on Japan two days after the first bomb was dropped, and I wonder which made more of a difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War_(1...

The US government did a lot of things to affect the way communism was viewed in the US, so I suspect there may have been some official spin involved here.
there is no topology to quantum logic. obviously they are looking to confuse grant writers to extort money.
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I'm not sure I fully understand your question.

Of course text would still be highly involved in the process. But the unit of a program will not be lines in files stored on a file-system.

The program will be a data structure and what the editor presents to you is just a editable projection of that structure.

And that doesn't mean some clunky tree editor GUI with drag and drop either. A sufficiently capable editor could present itself to you almost like a text editor but under the hood it would be operating on rich data objects that form the program not on lines of text.

This opens up a lot of opportunities, for example in project navigation. You could label an entire section of the program as something (example: "Create user") then the editor could give you nice fold/unfold features you could incrementally dig down and navigate the program that way.

You could tag objects in the program with stuff (example: tag a set of functions with the business topic that they deal with).

Because the editor accurately tracks meta-data related to program objects, for example it could be always aware of documentation related to a particular section or function in the program.

So that editor could give you a shortcut to instantly switch to a "documentation view" or "test case view".

I know some of this stuff is already sort-of possible with smart IDEs but they are still quite fragile and inaccurate and easily tricked as they rely on fragile tricks and heuristics to associate things with each other or they rely on conventions that pile up on top of each other and conflict with each other (file naming conventions to indicate something is a test case, etc...).

Treating programs as data objects gives us a strong foundation upon which we can make these fancy features with ease and high accuracy so that you can let your guards down and trust the editor to always be correct.
I stayed in Shanghai, Tokyo, and Taipei over the summer last year. Taipei's metro is the best overall; certainly not as crowded as the other two. Convenience is about the same, i.e. payable by cash-loading debit cards. Tokyo's metro have gotten old. I honestly think, a couple of Tokyo's underground lines need to be replaced.
Just remember, no food allowed in transit.
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as a South Korean, "U.S. hates asians" is a blatant lie.
In fact, US saved South Korea from Chinese communism.

Look what happened to all those North Koreans thanks to all those chinese-influenced "good-willed" communists.

And after the Korean war, US bombarded South Korea with supplies - even people born on '30s and '40s remember rations from U.S. left over
"One study found that 80 per cent of drivers rate themselves as above average – a statistical impossibility"

In a driving test, five drivers score 100, 100, 100, 100, 90. The average is 98, and so 80% of them are above average.
I was thinking this as I read it, and the author seemed to be shocked that both extremes of the bell curve thought of themselves as being more average. That just seems logical, to assume you are average.
I have been happy with using Hetzner services in the past and I wish I had a business use for this. I used openstack for a while on IBM bluemix and found it convenient enough. I would like a good backup recovery setup. I hope that they configure the systems for some redundancy between the two servers, but it is not clear from the ordering page.
I wonder how expertise in one domain translates to D-K effect in other domains.
If all the most intense moments of my brief teaching career were compressed into like 2 weeks: that's what Season 4 is like. So in one sense, it's truthful. But it's also a bit misleading.

The real day-to-day experience was much more mundane and psychologically draining over the long grind of the school year, punctuated by sporadic crises and constant minor disruptions. It's an unbelievable amount of work to buy supplies, plan lessons, physically maintain your classroom, perform your material, engage those students, respond to the dynamism of hormonal teenagers, resolve conflicts, grade work, help administer the school, coach, conference with your colleagues, and follow-up with parents. Somewhere in there, you maybe get attend to your own physical needs. And no matter how badly you fuck up, you wake up at 6am to do it all again the next day, and the next.

The challenges you face are manifold. I had a student arrive that spoke zero English. I had students who were refugees from Iraq, one of whom survived a school bombing. I had multiple students return after stints in the justice system. I had one student who lost his cousin, aunt, and grandma all in one day in a fire. I had a 14 year who had never learned subtraction. I had students with deep psychological issues, including one I believe (unprofessional) to be a sociopath. I had one student quietly stay after class to ask me if he could have one of my soups for lunch, since he hadn't eaten all weekend. I had to report one student's account of sexual abuse. I had students in rival gangs, and far worse, students who were gang wannabes. This is just what I remember off the top of my head, year's later.

Put 25 or so students of these students in a room, and you never know what's going to happen in a given class period. The class, like a sports team, succeeds or fails as a unit. Many of these students come from home lives and neighborhoods where the idea of education lifting them out of poverty is demonstrably a total myth. You need to convince them that their whole experience is false, and get them to buy into the idea that solving for x is worth a damn.

That's what it's like.