skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if this comes off as harsh, but do you approach eLearning with this sort of wishy washy that most people tend to have in this field(as far as I observed), or do you know what you are doing, eg. the educational psychology behind it, and basing decisions on empirical evidence?

"Many institutions move towards eLearning" - the impression I got from this topic is that its pretty much every time one of those "Ipad cases" - spend $$$ on Ipads even if they are useless, just to show how modern your institution is. Almost every time I hear about this, its some news-article over hyping eLearning that is so badly implemented that the teachers hate it.

If you know what you are doing (not the wishy washy way) then I would really like to ask you some questions.
Typed Architectures: architectural support for lightweight scripting
> Now, after 8 years in finance, I became fed up with it, left the job and am currently trying to break into the IT/startup sector as a CTO/co-founder.

Finance + IT knowledge is very powerful these days.
Except if it's the justice system and the victim doesn't get justice. Oh and the taxpayers which are overpaying for an inferior product/service so someone can line their pockets. OR the person that gets sick or injured because someone isn't properly trained. I could go on but I'm starting to get little sick...
Follow up with "open the file with Word". If they panic over that, you have an awfully stupid lawyer/investor/accountant. It'll even have the word icon on it! I doubt they even have file extensions enabled, they probably wouldn't even notice.

Filing you into the "change resistant and lying to themselves" category of Windows user, too.
It's not even crazy features. LO still doesn't support lists, I believe. This makes the more permanent spreadsheets so much harder to maintain.

But on the other hand LO has Base, which is pretty good.
> What regularly happens is that additional roads or adding lanes to existing roads provides temporary respite from traffic jams. But before too long the roads are jam-packed again, the problem isn't solved, just have more cars clogging traffic.

I've never seen proof of this, do you have any studies?

I know it's blah blahs law which I can't remember but outside of academia I never see a real world case.

If you just mean they fill again from growth well that makes sense. Without building them they would be even worse.

I've never see a cited case where improving infrastructure makes everyone worse off.
Never mind that most people who have to use welfare for cash assistance actually hate it, and they would rather earn their own living wages via work. Welfare queens are very few and far in between.
Do you have something interesting to say? Or do you just feel pressure to "make stuff"?

If you're an interesting person, people will want to hear what you say. And the only way to become interesting, is to be interested.

Get out into the world, stop consuming the things you consume so much of, and consume things that can actually change your perspective. What do you truly care about? Figure out what that is, and read/listen to as many books as there are on the subject. Buy a handheld mic and interview people. Have something to say that you couldn't possibly imagine not making YouTube videos about. Now, stop reading pointless comment threads. Like, permanently. :)
I can't get over the triviality of that flowchart in the article. The system is well and truly broken. If anything this just allows Microsoft to extract money from any other company trying to prevent piracy on their cloud storage.
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Interesting! But what about plant-eating, there is no real mention of it? Was the transition after oxygen from plant to flesh eating so fast it's too short to mention there, or do they consider plants or fruits also flesh here?
Regarding the ESL, I guess it depends on where. FWIW I hear[0] that in Czechia there are so many foreigners whose only significant skill relative to locals is that they are native speakers, that the native English on its own is not enough anymore. The language schools now demand (and have for some time) an in-depth grammar knowledge and possibly relevant education as well. I would expect it to be the same in other Central/Western European countries.

[0] An online account of an ESL teacher, confirmed by two others in person.

(EDIT: grammar.)
Well i'm a bit surprised it was Google. It's something i really expect from Uber.
So run it at work and FOSS at home. Let the situation improve over time. I'm not talking to the everyman, I'm talking to the Hacker News reader.
How many people with some sort of inflammation are on anti-TNF-alpha aka. Humira (for arthritis, psoriasis, intestinal inflammation diseases, etc.) in the UK? It's a treatment covered by the NHS. While "only" £10,000 per patient per year, so an order of magnitude cheaper than what is discussed here, it's typically prescribed for orders of magnitude longer (as in several decades).
Lamport isn't behind the P language, and it isn't as expressive as TLA+ so it isn't a replacement for his work in that area.
To tell the person asking "How does this works in the US?" That even if there theoretically are means to obtain the drug for the uninsured, it might be practically out-of-reach.
The article has everything wrong about the "1000s of songs" example. Consumers in the day understood "1000 songs" as a unit of storage perfectly well. The first iPod was not competing against devices of 1GB, it was trampling units struggling to store even dozens of songs. The flash players back then were tiny and the iPod being bigger was all about specs. Orders of magnitude of specs.

It was the heyday of p2p filesharing music piracy (as in people were not just doing it, they were ecstatic about it), with a whole generation of non-techy people suddenly turning into part time nerds just for all the abundant music. While all the other devices were engineered for the few songs one might own, the iPod was specces for the flood of music coming from filesharing (iTMS came much later).
> Lawless, who is not involved in the Google case, also said the company should be more transparent about its compensation practices: “If you’re innocent, then you open your records up in such a manner that people can see that people are being paid equally.”

Why do these unrelated lawyers want access to Google's salary band data?

It looks like they're civil rights lawyers; they might want to use it as a tool in their own cases. I wonder why Google's data specifically would help them.

(edit) It's a string attached to government money, not an out-of-the-blue demand for records or a lawsuit on behalf of any particular person:

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20170104
If it were 100% globalism than why is tech so concentrated?
Well, no, Scala took inspiration from various languages of decades past and combined them together into an modern OO/FP hybrid.

Kotlin copied Scala directly, renaming `def` to `fun`, `case` to `data` and so on. There's a big difference between creating and copying.

Anyway, in hindsight it was a great idea to cherry pick from Scala as the language seems poised for much bigger things (i.e. potentially becoming a mainstream language).
GoOnRails: A Rails generator to generate/manage Go codes in a Rails app
Flokka: Supervised Learning, Made Easy
Can you share more thoughts on this ?
I'm not talking to the vast majority of people. I'm talking to Hacker News readers. The sort of people who would care, and who would be technically capable of running the system (though to be quite honest, if it weren't for the mental leap of installing something new, the "vast majority" would have no problem running a modern Linux distro). The Hacker News crowd is also full of developers and, well, hackers. The sorts of people who, if they used free operating systems as their daily driver, would be capable of investing in it and improving it until it reaches the potential to have an impact on the market. I struggle to refer to the readers of HN as "hackers", though, considering many of them are the sort of people who would write comments like yours in defense of Windows and excusing away their proprietary behavior.
That's a "problem" with the erlang vm actually, you have a limit number of allowed atoms (I think 2 million). When receiving user input, you should not let users create arbitrary atoms because this would allow a atom exhaustion attack.

In these cases, what we do is assing a "string" map, something like :input["arbitrary_key"]

ETA: default is 1 million atoms actually. It can be increased but it's usually a smell/something to be investigated.
Discourse (the platform used by ElixirForum) is built by Jeff Atwood one of the founders of StackOverflow. It is a really nice app to use.
I agree. I've only seen middle aged office workers wear stuff like Fitbit, posture correction, sleep tracking type of things. Young people don't have to worry about 'sitting is new smoking' .
So it's as good/bad as in Java basically?

And sorry for the poor phrasing in my question, I see how it can get confusing but I'm coming from iOS and I'm used to things being a bit more simple.
There are some references in the Wikipedia article on Induced Demand. Most of the cited cases deal with heavily trafficked roads being removed and demand decreasing as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
If it's truly a "post-scarcity" society, people can have all the free stuff they want. If they can't, then it's still a scarcity society.

More law enforcement is rarely the solution to any long-term problem: that's how you end up with the East German situation where 1/4 of the population was Stasi informers.
hahaha. Siri can't even parse "What time does the Indianapolis 500 start?" It gives me movie start times.
Agree 100%. I derived my formula just to match what you would make in a salaried job, and there are other pieces to factor in as well that I left out for simplicity. For it to make sense you need to figure out how much more you want to make for it to be worth it as a career. If you are just starting out as a freelancer though, you might be ok with just matching salaried for your first year clients.
As Profit Dwindles, Ford Is Said to Replace Its C.E.O
plus if you I guess do want to pirate, sonarr and radarr are freaking amazing to have a long with a plex server.
Bjørn Lomborg is well known for a bait and switch strategy to climate change. He recognises the problem and often gives reasonable recommendations, but then throws in a lot of other problems together with misleading/discredited statistics to explain why we shouldn't actually do anything near term about climate change.

For example, he argues that fixing poverty with cheap energy has bigger economic impact than fixing climate change. He then puts up a statistic connecting expansion of coal energy in China with a fall in extreme poverty. However he doesn't mention that the fall in poverty can mostly be attributed to improved agriculture and happened a decade before the coal expansion. Further, if you really wanted to get energy to rural areas far away from the power grid, distributed energy production from subsidised solar would be much cheaper as well as environmentally reasonable.

Bjørn is not the worst denier, but he is also not intellectually honest and you get a strong feeling that he intentionally tries to make preventing climate change seem at odds with fighting poverty, when it is really to sides of the same problem.
Can you install Plex in a standalone fashion, or do you need to set up a server and client?

With Kodi it'd just be a case of install and point it at your media directories.
I didn't say "only", but generally the poor in the developing world spend a much larger fraction of their income on energy. They are also the most dependent on significant economic growth to see qualitative improvements in their lives and well-being.
If any Blizzard game would be ported, that would truly be a milestone (StarCraft 2 with WINE is a lot slower on my machine).

Also many games require nVidia drivers or AMD's open source driver (e.g. Life is strange). I'm using a 144 Hz monitor and therefore need touse AMDGPU Pro (AMDGPU has a bug with >120 Hz: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93826 ).

But you're right: It's getting better :) For example Rocket League and Dota 2 work great.
Everything must start again anew,

Everything just goes that way my friend,

Every king knows it to be true,

That every kingdom must one day come to an end,

- Ben Howard, Everything
And if you follow those guidelines and with the right meta data, they get treated specially by certain 3rd party, like google/android letting you update them in the app store.

Just like AMP are fundamentally websites built on a bunch of guidelines with performance and accessibility prioritized which, once you sprinkle them with enough metadata, get treated specialty by third party like google.

Yeah, I don't think I misunderstood. AMP's guidelines are just more strict before the 3rd parties start treating you specially. And in both cases, the original website/app is just fine, until it starts getting treated specially.
Just started his other book "The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy"

Pretty good so far.
Bloomlife: Bringing the first pregnancy wearable into the world
This is clearly a fishing expedition- and I am not surprised that Google objects to the DOJ seeking publicity when they lack evidence as it stands
You are correct. That quote is complete feel-good mumbo jumbo.
This is all well and good, but is it accurate?

Don't Theranos us Apple.
Codeq – Git in Datomic
Here's an earlier NY Times article about a coastal Virginia community where property values are plummeting because a combination of rising sea levels and sinking land levels is gradually flooding the whole place out:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/when-rising-seas...

(They're seeing the effect faster because it's not just rising seas at work, but the rising seas are definitely part of it. This pattern will be increasingly common over time.)
Nice article, but should this have a [1999] in the title?
In the US my insurance covers the 4 test strips per day my endocrinologist prescribes for type 2. This was true for the 3 years I was able to use oral medication before switching to insulin.
$100B Vision Fund Has Won Commitments from Apple, Qualcomm
Maybe it's too early, but for the life of me I can't find anywhere in the article where the data will be shared with Lawless and Scwartz. As I read it, the data only goes to DOL and those 2 were just asked for comments. Is is that once Google gives the data to DOL Lawless and Schwartz can then request it (maybe via FOIA)?
Don't forget the racism. Some of the weird structural elements date from the "three-fifths compromise", like the electoral college.
These things are not really mutually exclusive. Defense in depth. Getting more information on building defensible software does not preclude the need to have someone knowledgeable try to rip it apart afterwards.
Google Assistant will use more than one device to decipher the voice commands
completely disagree. Why is china expanding faster than most "democratic" countries. India is focused on technology which should be easier to outsource yet, Knowledge workers are doing fine in the US. It's because china is coordinates its activity like a giant company, in my opinion, to exploit markets. investing heavily in infrastructure, stealing trade secrets, destroying the environment, exploiting children and criminals, manipulating currency for decades. I could go on but you get the point
Thanks for the second link. I go there every few weeks but never thought to check out the top voted.

...In hindsight, of course...

The gem I just plucked out is something I've been curious about for a while but never looked up:

CTRL-X e

The shell will take what you've written on the command
line thus far and paste it into the editor specified by
$EDITOR [then run it when saved]

Similar to `fc` except you don't need to run the command before invoking the editor
Typed Architectures: architectural support for lightweight scripting [pdf]
Minor point but it's four cores now [1].

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/sql-server/sql-server-2016-e...
Again, the problems you describe with REST are a limitation of your implementation, not of REST itself. GraphQL itself is built on top of REST via a single GET/POST query endpoint.

The difference between it and typical REST implementations is that the resource identifier and fields to return have been moved into a novel query syntax. However, the same result can be achieved with a typical REST endpoint combined with a sparse fieldset query parameter [1]:

/users/123?fields=name,email,work.name,work.address

where "work" is a sub-resource in the same vein as GraphQL. The difference between this and GraphQL is purely syntactic:

user({ "id": 123 }) {
name,
email,
work {
name,
address
}
}

[1] http://jsonapi.org/format/#fetching-sparse-fieldsets
How to Onboard Software Engineers – Interview with Kate Heddleston
Gentrification has plusses and minuses. It is one of the processes by which a city improves in various respects. However, in spite of (very imperfect) mechanisms like rent control and caps of property value assessments, an inevitable result of a neighborhood becoming more upscale is that prior residents and business owners find it increasingly hard to remain there.
I find it interesting(strange) that individuals think this sort of smug contrarianism is welcome on HN.
Paranoia won’t save you in the end
You have to make bold (and often later false) predictions to get peoples' attention. Nobody pays attention to "scientists predict that there is a 10% chance of X in 20 years, a 25% chance in 50 years, and a 50% chance in 100 years" type stuff even if X is something really bad. To get the media and the average busy person to pay attention, it must be an emergency. It must be a crisis.

But... it's a catch-22. When you make those kinds of bold, sensational predictions you lose the thinking people who pay attention. They'll notice that your prediction is unlikely and later turns out to be false. They'll make a note of it and never listen to you again.

Some day we will really run out of certain fossil fuels, and if we haven't made them obsolete by then we are in big trouble. Some day if we keep dumping CO2 and methane into the atmosphere we will trigger some kind of runaway climate effect with potentially disastrous consequences. We also may trigger something like an ocean anoxic event. When will these things happen? Nobody knows, but it could be within our lifetimes (especially with life extension maybe coming) and it's even more likely within our childrens' lifetimes.

"Why didn't anyone say something!?!?"

They did, but they did too early and in the wrong way. But if they'd said it calmly and rationally nobody would have paid attention either.

P.S. I personally find ocean acidification far scarier than climate change. We can move cities a lot easier than we can figure out how to survive without the oceans.
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"You can fly to another industry but the feeling will go with you and you will remain unsettled." <- Totally incorrect.

I took a break from software development due to burn out, got my CDL and drove an 18 wheeler for a few months.

The experience was practically a relaxing (after training) paid vacation where I could see the country, and made feel so much better.

I was even able to go back to software development afterwards with renewed drive. So... no, the feeling won't follow you.
Thanks to Erlang
Show HN: An app to search startup jobs scraped from websites written in Elixir
The article criticizes Facebook because it "vacuums up information about our tastes, our shopping habits, our political beliefs, and just about anything else you might think of—is too powerful in the first place."

So what good does it do to push discoverability to the company that is currently vacuuming up all your searches and browsing history?

edit: typo
>this subtly piggy-backs on it towards lock-in for tooling

FTA: "More than a dozen integrators have apps in GitHub Marketplace today, including Travis CI, Appveyor, Waffle, ZenHub, Sentry, and Codacy"

Travis CI and many others were widespread prior to this marketplace. Seems to me that creating a marketplace is a logical way to collect these third-party services in one place.
It's identical at Microsoft. Your Office 365 AAD account does everything, unless it needs to be paired with a Microsoft (live, xbox, skype, outlook.com/hotmail account)
>Right now only a hand full of cities have 'real' jobs

That's a pretty broad brush. The world really doesn't revolve around a few coastal US cities.
IBMs Mo seems to be jump onto new technologies with name recognition. Make BOLD claims they can't back up. See Watson. See Q. See IBM Blockchain.

This only serves to build distrust with developers but I bet their investors love it, but only since they don't understand it
Bringing this on a small tangent, but I've never been comfortable with 'sudo !!' and I can't really articulate why aside from wanting to be as explicit as possible.

<up>, <ctrl-a>, type sudo and enter is nearly as quick and much more explicit for me.
I am always annoyed when information about interesting engineering projects is cluttered with overly complicated (but beautiful) imperial units. It's a guarantee to make an article look shallow and trivialised.

Here's a very simple example why Metric is better:

Length: 1m
Draught: 1.5 cubic meters
Density of salt water is a bit over 1.0

How heavy can the Undaughted get untill it sinks?
Easy to answer in metric, since 1.5 cubic meters equal to 1500 kg of water.

Looking at the weight: 544kg unladen, or 816kg laden, means it is about half as dense overall as it's draught in water.

Everybody can do that calculation while reading the article in a second, and these conversions get second nature soon. Impossible with imperial.
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There was significant investment and most of that has lead to very little. There are efforts recently trying to do more complicated textile manufacturing but I have heard that factory owners aren't interested in doing more than simple things. Probably for a variety of reasons including lack of skilled workers, training, etc. The only electronics I have heard about (I live in Haiti) is Surtab (http://surtab.com/).
Jetbrains unveiled Kotlin in 2011, it had been under development for a year at that time. Swift was introduced at Apple's 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference.

That's what I get at wikipedia for each language.
Call me old-fashioned but I think it's wrong when the powers that be deceive, manipulate and strong-arm the local worker to give what they owned, personally or collectively.

Why is the elite's right to ownership less sacred than the common citizen's? "You", in your example, can only buy these services because you could influence the State to wield its power in your best interest. Wagging the dog and all that...
At first I was surprised they didn't use any assembly language.
However, GLSL is their replacement...
History of storage costs and the software design impact