skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a bizarre way to frame this. Poor test results are due to not having a father which is due to being black?

How about poor test results because you are too busy learning and abiding by the complex and demanding rules of the street, out of fear of being shot, to worry about another set of comparatively pointless and inane rules inside the classroom?

And maybe not having a father due to the "War on Drugs" practically relocating entire communities of black men into the prison system?

Or maybe not striving to excel in school because even though you're intelligent, resourceful, caring, etc., you've grown up watching your family and friends get murdered by the police in their own neighborhoods for petty crimes or no crime at all, so you end up feeling the same apathy and hopelessness towards your country that your country feels towards you.

Or here's another one: perhaps the tests are rigged. The news segment in the original link alludes to this towards the end - was anyone on HN able to find the video explaining this?
IMO the most interesting from all these popularity trends is the rise of Python:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=python%2Cjava...
> I sometimes go to some fancy and downtown restaurants in the Eastern European capital where I live, and you very often can see politicians there and people you very often see on TV as having had problems with the law. I often joke with one of my work-colleagues about how most probably all the restaurant tables in those kind of places are wired.

Lol, you don't know how close to truth you are. It has actually happened already in Poland in 2014 - a high-end restaurant in Warsaw, where ruling party's politicians liked to hang out, was wired and the recording subsequently leaked to the press. It was one of the factors that led to this party falling out of favor with voters and the "right-wing" opposition taking over.
I'm a little disappointed the answer was "batch inserts"

This is write performance optimization 101. I bet you are getting wins in way more places in the pipeline than the evaluation pointed to by doing this.

Try doing the same optimization on a table with zero partial indexes and you will get the same 10x bump. It is better for many many reasons.

Still, super cool dig into performance tools and source code. It shows great aptitude and willingness to deep dive.
Same thought as /u/ams6110.. if using emacs, give M-x org-capture a try. It does the time-stamping automatically, and you get stuff like org-agenda, TODO, expirting the notes to other formats, and other org goodies.
Checked it out. Actual math is trivial (too trivial, in ex-USSR most of that is covered by 5th-6th grade, or 12-13 y.o.), but the test itself is horrible imo. Multiple-choice sucks for math, by design it tends to focus on minutiae of definitions or your knowledge of exact approaches taught in school; also too many trick questions (like X axis labeled with uneven steps, who does that at all and how is this relevant to statistics understanding?) and questions like:

---------------------------------------------
Look at the pattern below.

2.6, −5.2, 10.4, −20.8, . . .

If this pattern continues, what is the sixth term?
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which sound like a bad IQ test where any answer is valid but you need to guess what test designer had in mind that evening.

Probably because they had a checklist of "competencies" and tried to separately test each of them.
Not all places have winter with mittens, gloves and cold weather.
For me, comprehending everything in a book is not a goal. A good book goes past my limits at the time. It creates questions and curiosity. Later maybe a read something else and the thing I read earlier suddenly makes sense. Comprehending everything is contrary to another thing I find helpful...no compulsion to finish every book.

It took me a long time to stop treating quitting a book as an intellectual failure. It was hard, in part I think, because I had learned to read books as if it was an academic assignment and as if there would be a test on the material next Tuesday. There isn't. The measure of success from reading a book is that it might have value at some point later and that later might be years later. And comprehending a little about the contents of a book means I can comprehend something else in some other book.
How are these disagreements with the premise? You've outlined exactly why it likely has a massive impact. Look at the disparity between one-parent homes by race.

Do you think this doesn't matter?

You just spelled out exactly why it would...

edit: I don't think the strong argument is "because you're black" but moreso "because you're not growing up in a two parent / married household"

(Correlation is not causation.. but there's quite a bit of correlation)

http://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/marria...
It will be interesting to see how long China's frenetic metro expansion lasts. Japan went through a very similar phase after the war, but this slowed down markedly after the Bubble burst. With population growth now strongly negative, there's no business case for building more and Japan completed what's likely its last line a few years ago.

https://gyrovague.com/2015/12/18/the-last-subway-line-in-jap... (Disclaimer: my blog)

China, too, faces an upcoming and likely even more severe population crunch. India, on the other hand, is only just getting started and is now building metros with a similar pace as China in the 1990s.
i thought temple of the dog was more or less a tribute to mother love bone, well the lead singer that died andrew wood.
Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts
The article seems speculative. The only evidence for this "Unit 180" is: Kim Heung-kwang, a former computer science professor in North Korea who defected to the South in 2004 and still has sources inside North Korea, said Pyongyang's cyberattacks aimed at raising cash are likely organised by Unit 180.

I mean, this could very well be the bald truth, but it's hard to tell. The article provides no other corroboration.
I'm going to dissent here. I went to their page and it does not feel like one big "go to the website" WaPo advertisement.

They're responding and engaging with users, even negative ones, they're posting stories, and they're giving an insiders view to the newsroom that they aren't offering anywhere else.

I mean, here they are offering exclusive access to journalists for questions and posting exclusive newsroom info, and your criticism is that they're not posting stupid jokes on twitter like Wendy's?

If it's all the same to you, I'll take the journalists acting like journalists instead of teenage social media managers!
>I never see ads on either of those sites.

Half of the content of both of those sites is ads, even if it poses as part of the regular flow (sponsored feeds etc).
What Comes of Docker with a New CEO?
Ask HN: What works best for you?
Video tutorials or books to learn coding.
just google it you pedantic fuck it was literally front page news
most modern devops are lazy to learn the basics of setting a HA system

Absurd nonsense.
Granted I am a novice, but have been in film post production and vfx for a long time. I'm not very familiar with any GUIs thay truly reflect proprietary commands.

Nonetheless, I agree. And if you find it, please share.
Reactive Programming at Cloud-Scale and Beyond
the biggest problem with ordinary work is the rote schedules most such work entails. Just having to be in the same building for many years from X am to Y pm Monday through Friday, except for M weeks vacation, is itself pretty depressing to many people
I'm sympathetic, but American politics isn't defined by its desire for honesty and dynamic problem solving.
No, I'm not from Baltimore. The article says "a few dozen" kids will go to college from Frederick Douglass High School, which is one of the 6 named high schools and middle schools. If we take "a few dozen" to mean 25, and apply it to the 6 schools, that is at least 150 college-bound students.

Out of 150 college-bound students, you believe that exactly 0 had a 4 out of 5 in both math and English?

We are not talking about generalities or averages here. The article makes the extraordinary claim of "exactly 0." This is simply an extraordinary claim. Like saying nobody is over 6 feet tall in an American city of a population of 500,000. I mean sure, the average could be lower - but not one?

Since you seem to know a bit more about Baltimore, could you expand on the reason for this extraordinary fact?

Maybe it is a statistical anomaly based on the total number of high schools and middle schools, that 6 should happen not to have any students with an over 4 in math and English. Plus I note that they say math and English. Perhaps if they said "math or English" they would have.

So it definitely seems a bit fishy to me.
A lot of interesting points made in this article, but the assertion that trauma plays only a minor role in depression, made in passing, raised an eyebrow. There's quite a bit of evidence that coming to terms with trauma, can be key for some. Trauma is of course related to imagining the future, and the therapies involved are aimed at resolving the haunting past so you can engage with the present and future unfettered, but it's not like you can tell someone with PTSD to just look to the future more positively.
I've always admired the wizardry of Cliff Click's concurrent hash:

http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff/2007-03-26-non-blockin...

https://youtu.be/HJ-719EGIts

I'm not sure what to make of an "atomic" hash. I don't think OP does as well: "Doesn't this kind of defeat the point of concurrent algorithms? Well, in a sense, it does make it non-atomic, but it isn't really a spin-lock or anything like that, even though it can seem like that:"

Concurrent hash seems to be more correct and clear.
well, honestly, assembling prefabricated furniture parts is not really my idea of a productive or fun use of my time. It's easy to do, but can take a lot of time for bigger pieces, and doing it makes you painfully aware that the quality of the product is not that great (to put it nicely). Unlike building something yourself, you have zero control of the process or the outcome, it's really just about saving some money at the cost of your time. Maybe frustration is a hard word for that, but to me it's not enjoyable activity at all. And I otherwise love woodworking and manual labour, so it's not just me being lazy.
I do time-stamping based note taking too using org-capture in emacs, and I also use tags to put my notes in some broad category. Tag auto-completion using counsel package does not need me to remember the exact tag string if it's used previously.
What makes you think growing up without fathers, especially surrounded by other challenging environmental factors as well, wouldn't have a massive negative effect on discipline, structure, education, social development, etc?

What is it exactly about highlighting this disparity so offends people's sensibilities?

Do you think avoiding this aspect in discussion is helpful?
So was it like the cop turned math teacher in season 4 of The Wire?
I just don't see how it's any different than what they had yesterday. You can buy two cheap non-server-hardware servers and put openstack or coreos on them and administer it yourself.

All they did here was pre-install openstack, but leave you to keep it updated. If you can't install it yourself, good luck upgrading it when a security release comes out.

I mentioned ELB/EC2/Lambda/S3 equivalents for 2 reasons. First, AWS is clearly the market share leader, so having a similar pattern might get more buyers. Second, it's a bit easier pattern for apps that aren't cloud aware. But, they could just offer hosted K8S with some add-on ingress controllers.
The combination: books tend to summarize better while videos explain better
Thanks for clarifying. :)

I assumed that my parent really meant to write statically typed, not strongly typed.
You're tilting at windmills. Most threads where someone starts something new has someone making similar complaints to the one you're making here. Yet people's behavior doesn't change. And it won't -- it's just too much overhead to avoid the ever-expanding space of products that have the same name.
The implication of "shut them down"'implies also that children will not be in a place for 35+ hours a week out of parents hair, and will be deprived of free meals.
Plate isn't really in the same space as SQL.

SQL is such a shockingly good engineering choice that if you can use it I would. So even if Plate was done I would use Postgres instead of a Plate-based datastore inside my apps.

Plate serves a different purpose: schema'ing human-readable formats like iCalendar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar)[1] or JSON APIs. So even if you're using SQL within your app Plate may come in useful at the boundaries.

[1] Even if iCalendar was in JSON you couldn't write a Plate schema for it for the reasons listed here (https://github.com/seagreen/plate/blob/master/docs/prioritie...), but it serves as an example of a common human-readable data format.
The Japanese economy was in a shambles. Perry gave them a way out of the trap they were in.
I would think that any regular reader of HN would think this list is tame and unimaginative.

But I'll agree that investing in computational power is worthwhile. I say that because of all of this year's news in quantum computing, and because the amount of energy required to represent and flip a single bit should be infinitesimal. So I don't think that it's been shown in principle that achieving higher speeds requires higher (at runtime anyway).

Honestly, it should be NATO initiative. It would be worth a lot more than landing on the moon.
You hold the politicians accountable in primary elections then. Maybe more states will move to top-two style elections like California does for senators. In places with political party monocultures it gives alternative views within a party a shot at winning a general election.
It is not unusual to see discussions devolve into arguments over the meanings of words, as if the issues being debated could be definitively settled in favor of the side more felicitous to the 'true' meaning of the terms used in the discussion ('socialism' and 'freedom' are common examples of words triggering this sort of thing.)

The careful use of terminology is important in technical fields, and learning the terminology is an important step in mastering a field of knowledge, but it is not the final step in so doing. When the complex trade-offs of society are concerned, undue emphasis on the primacy of the true meaning of terms tends to lead to dogma.
For far too many issues, there's this "pre-programmed" thread of political bullshit. You start with observation A. Depending on how you look at it, you either head down path B1 or B2. Each of these paths has arguments already defined. You usually end up with calling the other side some version of "asshat"

Just wondering if we could break the chain somehow. Otherwise I'm going to continue to see dear friends on both ends of the political spectrum wondering how the folks on the other side could be so simplistic and stupid.

sigh.

Could there be some simple and easy ground rules that short-circuit this dysfunctional behavior?
"Latest commit by ken almost 47 years ago"

Ken Thompson, I suppose...
This is disinformation.

Put simply:

The US has a process for sharing intelligence whereby the intelligence community runs through a long list of concerns, redacts things that are too secret, protects sources and methods, protects allies and relationships, protects national interests, etc, and makes intelligently informed release decisions based on a mature review process.

Donald Trump blurted out Israeli-sourced active-asset-in-the-field top secret code word intelligence WITHOUT following the declassification/sharing protocol precedent, performing analysis, redaction, or doing even the merest hint of due process at all. -- And he did that in a fit of braggadocio, "I have the best sources, the best intel, such as..."

He's entitled to do that. To be careless and crass and a braggart with our most trusted and important secrets.

But we're entitled to criticize such craven carelessness.
I'm sorry but I'm not seeing your logic at all.

> King Edward the 7th was the single man most responsible for WW1.

I would actually be interested in that one.

I have only heard one person ever to blame Britain for WW1. That person was conspiracy theorist who believed in Anglo-Saxon elite that has a secret plan for world domination and they had it since 1066.

I myself have read quite a lot about WW1 and making Edward the 7th responsible is simply wrong.
> Our "liberals" today focus on schools because it allows them to buy into the idea of meritocracy and dismiss the other pesky social justice issues with a clean conscience.

Actually, liberals are far more likely to focus on the broader social justice issues with the schools as one component. It's conservatives who tend to focus on school performance in isolation (with the usual remedy being various forms of privatization.)
Kept Secret for 12 Years,LADY IN ICE PROBABLY 22 THOUSAND YEARS OLD
I'm thinking of taking the course. How is the course when compared to other mooc?
There was a story on NPR yesterday, about a small region of Indiana -- a hotbed of school choice -- that looks like it will soon have no functioning schools. So this is happening already.

In my view, the problem is that every kid is guaranteed a chance to attend school. This is even written into some state constitutions. Thus all of the schools are joined together at the hip, even if they don't want to be. The higher functioning schools depend on selective admissions and operating at near capacity, which in turn requires the government to operate last-resort schools.

This is a continuous government bail-out of the selective schools. So you can't just shut it down because the successful kids need it. In fact, periodic or continuous government bail-outs are probably a feature of any attempt to privatize what is necessarily a public good, such as health care and possibly air travel.

I'd prefer a return to totally public education and more intensive efforts to battle poverty and segregation. But a possible measure for eliminating the last-resort schools would be to take the kids who can't get into any school, and assign them to schools at random, then let the successful schools figure out how to deal with them.
I'd prefer reddit die and something replace it. I go to the website every day, mostly for sports and gaming subreddits, but as a platform, it's hopelessly mismanaged.

They're technically lost. Look at the trouble they've had making a proper phone app (they still don't have a good one). The user interface is lacking at best (as evidenced by RES being needed to use the site for a long time now). People have been asking for better moderation tools for nearly a decade. The recent CSS dustup shows they don't even understand how people use their site. Then there's the lack what would be super helpful features (the ability to do a subreddit poll, vote for moderators, and access more than your last 100 posts easily).

The leadership is completely tone-deaf to the userbase. Just look at the drama when they fired that AMA mod. Many times various CEOs from Ellen Pao to Steve Huffman have acted more like spoiled 6-year-olds than chief executives. That's before you start talking about them pushing their politics on the site.

And spoiled 6-year-old isn't too far off from the truth. Keep in mind Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian were essentially gifted their success. They applied to y-combinator with no idea of what to make. They were given the idea for reddit. They couldn't make it work so they had Aaron Swartz forced on them (in what was by all accounts a strained relationship). Aaron fixed the site and made it what it is today then they all got paid. And those two have just been coasting on that ever since. It's nearly a "born on third and thought they hit a triple" situation.

If I were a VC I'd be throwing money at a reddit replacement. It's not hard to envision a better platform, it just has a high barrier to entry because you're likely not going to be profitable for years while you grow your userbase. The payoff is huge though. Reddit is one of the largest websites in the world and makes next to no profit because of its management.
To be fair, at the time, airplanes also crashed a lot.
Ideas have no value for multiple reasons. Other people[1][2][3] have written about this at length, better than I could.

First, they're never new. Someone has already had your idea and, most likely, beaten you to the market with that idea. If they haven't, it's probably a bad idea. First movers have a disadvantage.

Second, ideas should be disposable. If you have an idea and the market won't bite, you need to throw away that idea immediately. Getting attached to ideas kills more startups than anything else.

There's a good reason you can't protect a business idea in the US, the way you can protect an invention or a novel. You can, however, protect a process -- i.e. execution.

I'll give you some honest feedback, which I hope will lead you to a more targeted pitch to engineers:

I wouldn't work with you because you're proposing an idea-first approach, and, as an engineer, I don't need you. I have lots of ideas, and I can build the product myself.

The value of a non-technical person in an early-stage startup is closing sales, ideally before the product is built. If you can't come to me and say, "I have 10 customers who will buy a product that solves [x] problem for around $[y]," then it doesn't make sense for me to work with you.

1. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/236605

2. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-worth-value-of-an-idea-for...

3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2013/04/03/your-idea-is...
I don't know a single person that like a Kotlin because it us revolutionary or new.

People like it because it is a less bad Java. Most of the benefits with fewer drawbacks.

I personally prefer scala but the market doesn't seem to be going that way.
How high is t5 for an outsider? Senior engineer without any reports?
This is my first side project which is for developers and students to find best books for their interested topic.All your suggestions are welcome.
What about webdav?
Good points, and although we may have different worldviews you have some neat ideas.

The problem I was trying to address in my comment was organizational inertia. If you have scores of people in a big building creating their own system of doing things, it becomes impossible to change those ways. It's not a matter of policy, philosophy, or whatnot. It's simply the way large groups of people operate.

You might be able to take those same teachers and administrators, put them in tents in a park next door, and have vastly-improved results. Or not. Whatever your philosophy of "how to do good school", if it's not working in a particular instance, you have to deal with the organizational inertia first and foremost no matter how you'd like the rest of the game to play out.
> some other more likely smoking gun in this situation

Extreme poverty comes to mind.