skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some parts of Canada (Ottawa at least), there is no shortage of French immersion programs if parents want them, and I at least haven't noticed any type of segregation.

When my son started school, we were concerned about enrolling in a French immersion program because he has had speech and language development issues. We were also worried because neither my wife nor I speak French so we weren't sure if we could help him if he had trouble. During the registration we were encouraged to try French immersion anyway and to switch later if he ran into trouble. The school board provided speech and language therapy for him and so far he is doing fine. There is an English stream at his school and the kids from both play together, go on field trips together, etc...

I should note that starting this past year, all kids entering kindergarten are taught in 50% English and 50% French. Only after two years of kindergarten do they have the option of early French immersion starting in grade one.
http://www.ocdsb.ca/programs/ele/fi/Pages/default.aspx
True, but in C++ the problem never existed.
Billinguism is a lie we've been fed for so long. So much money wasted, so many missed opportunities, no way to unite as a whole to change anything since the vast majority of canadians on either side of the fence just listens to his own language's media. The only issue is, you might not like my solution out of it.
"They just want to be in control of their data"

sure ..
but that's not a problem massive centralised services can solve.

If you put your data on someone else's computer then who REALLY has control of it?

whom you trust is of course your choice
and theres no "one size fits all" re any of it.

re: opensocial

That wasn't about federation.

the scope of it was closer to webapps.

remember Google Gadgets?
it was pretty much based on and extending that.

btw I think from memory Myspace was part of that group and implemented some parts of the opensocial spec.

I don't remember Facebook being involved with Opensocial.
"Community startups are hard."

Ain't that the truth. I've got scars to prove it.
The same is true for juicero, internet connected refrigerators, and almost everything else connected to the internet. Plenty of people will pay more for things because they are internet connected
Do you live in a wealthy neighborhood? If so, Uber charges you more.
Sorry to confuse, now fixed. Think I just predate all this standardization. I did mean KB (at least, that is what DevTools uses and from where I copied the figures :) ).
I was very disappointed in this book after hearing so many positive recommendations. It seemed like a lazy repackaging of famous stoic writings, dumbed down to appeal to a mass pop-science type audience, plus some projection the author’s personal opinions and ideas onto other writers, in a way that felt kind of forced and sloppy.

Just go to the primary sources.
Yeah. If your neighbor has one 802.11b device and your router sees it on its channel then it has to get out of it's way, dragging your whole Network into the pits.

If you detect anything older than 802.11n, change channels or start knocking on doors.
Truth. Most people I have worked with know how not to be dicks. And if you put them in a situation where the human impact of something is obvious, they'll have the right reactions.

The challenge is to have the right reactions when you are sitting in a comfortable office and the moral dilemmas inherent in your work are entirely hidden by metrics, and all your bosses ask you to do is to drive the graph up and to the right.
A) Make time to de-stress. Force yourself if necessary.

B) Exercise is a good way to de-stress.

C) Start planning how to implement your third option.
You need to do this anyway so that you are not a single
point of failure. This is good risk mitigation practise.
However I don't know enough about pitching/diplomacy/PR
to tell you the best way to spin this to acquirers.
D) You many need to delegate to multiple other staff,
not just one.

E) Once you are de-stressed, you will be better able to
judge whether you are able to suck it up as necessary.

F) Personally, I think that if it's only 2 more years,
it may be worth sticking out, provided you first
implement points A-E above. There is a big difference
between 2 years and 5 years. You could give yourself a
hard deadline to be out within 2 years, and take steps
to make sure that you are not a single point of
failure by that time.
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I do think its mostly just business. Both schools and device manufacturers can make a lot of money by making such tools mandatory. But there is no doubt that tablets and laptop application can help improve learning in students, but if used effectively
I don't think there's a relevant distinction between a database entry and ownership of the company.

If the stock wasn't a guarantee of equity rights, the information that drives the market wouldn't have any financial meaning.

You can argue that market microstructure on a small enough scale isn't related to fundamental value. Ok, maybe, but one of the reasons market microstructure exists is that the exchanges nominate certain entities to be market makers in order to ensure liquidity in the ticker symbol.

I think you'll find that most phenomena in stock trading are related in some way to information about the stock's fundamentals. (Even if it's just sharks taking the other side of elephants).
UK achieves solar power record as temperatures soar
Chipotle says ‘most’ of its restaurants were infected with malware
Seems there are a huge number of people who disagree. There literally being nothing else that does what it does I think is a big leg up.
> Synchronicity at work I guess.

Gotta love the Baader-Meinhof Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ....
The downvotes your comment is receiving are a reminder that ethical consciousness threatens the interests of some actors.
Definitely. Professionals carry a greater ethical burden than people do in everyday actions. Ditto for systems designers vs systems users. More power means more responsibility.
And yet, I continue to see anecdotal evidence that something like learning styles do exist. Granted, they don't always fit the classic visual/kinesthetic/auditory classification. For instance, I often learn a new topic best by reading about it, while some friends do better watching videos. And I think we all know that different explanations on hard topics work for different people.

Other people here have talked about stupid things people have done because of a simplistic understanding of learning styles. Ok, fine. Obviously you need to learn a topic in its own medium, and there's limits to what you can teach with song and dance. But let's do enough experiments to actually figure out what's going on, and not throw the baby out with the bathwater. There's clearly something there, IMO, even if it's relatively insignificant.
>it's not "more work" if you think about it from the start

Most of my job as a developer is thinking. So yes, it is more work. Accessibility / Responsiveness isn't always done first because it takes more time (either thinking or "working").
Perhaps the most incisive work of philosophy ever written. Short, funny and out of copyright. What's not to like?
agreed that I'm not really sure which segment this hits. I have a $300 sturdy fixed gear for casual local trips as well as a $800 Cannondale Touring bike for the tent/sleeping bag type of multi-day ride. I think e-bikes are a great choice for commuting for most people as well.
My understanding of the article is there isn't a "local file" that matches the name, but the very act of checking for that filename causes the hang.

Happy to be corrected.
In fairness, when I order from Zappos I order like six pairs and return five of them. Will Vanhawks be down with me doing that with bikes?
Public Schools are horrific squanderings of societal wealth and innumerable years of cognition.

They socialize children into diets that bring on pre-diabetes and diabetes.

It's absolute quackery to say that the massive resources spent have anything near a positive return for most kids.

Schools are for the benefit of administrators and unionized teachers imo.
Just checked your home page. Really no idea what the service is after 3 seconds of looking. Sadly, that's all most people are going to give you when they land on your website.
Dude! You win HN for the week, at least in the eyes of this guy, currently iOS developer guy. Just yesterday I was thinking to myself, how I needed some kind of tool to help me visualize the view hierarchy. I ended up setting different background colors on various views to understand my problem.

Thank you.
it's like the internet, a series of tubes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs&ab_channel=super...
Is there any chance that we can change the rules to make comments about the title and it's clickbaitiness off limits? This is getting to be the majority of comments.
52 points 2 hours and this is on page two.

Not a big surprise given how pro Government HN commenters can be.
I assume that you are trolling. Anyway, be aware that performance of Go programs are still behind of C++, so it is not a real replacement
>The spikes, skeletons and other deterrances are the kind of thing any future historian (or Indiana Jones style explorer) is going to find extremely interesting regardless of warnings. Even if they do know about nuclear radiation.

A future archeologist exploring the architecture is of no concern. A future environmental science team drilling down to study how well our containment procedures worked is of no concern. If people are aware of what's buried, it's not a problem.

The goal isn't to keep people out, per se, it's to let them know what's there. That's what the document proposes. None of the architecture is designed to physically prevent people from entering the site. It's all designed to tell people what's there.
Machine vs human is never fair. That is like Usain Bolt vs a modern car.
>Free advice

I mean, I'm paying him to fix my car, and then I'm also having a conversation with a human being. That was the whole point. I'm negotiating with the carwash guys because they're humans - if they don't wanna do the thing, they'll tell me.

This is kind of exactly my point - I'm not treating these folks like robots whose prices are up on a board in the front of the building.
Just a note about your site. The 'Website' link on the left pane, it seems to 404 on just about every page. It looks like it is a relative link, rather than static because the domain is getting appended to the end of each source URL.

Neat find.
I went from ADSL to fiber (both provided by sonic). It is really quite something. The speed is rad (I can't compare it to something like, say 500 mbit, but compared to DSL it's amazing) - I can download a whole steam game or a stupid xcode multi-gigabyte update in a couple of minutes. The latency is also really, really good - my ping times went way down also.

Another thing to think about is that although the upload speed is asymmetric (only 100 Mbit up), it is quite speedy enough for me to run my plex server in a mode that lets me watch my content from wherever.

In any case, I work remote and do a lot of video conferences (hangouts mostly, some skype), and the transition from ADSL to gigabit fiber was huge there, and is definitely the biggest benefit I've seen. My videoconferencing is now pretty solid. Any dropouts or hangups are the fault of the other end of the connection (as far as they can be attributed at least), whereas on DSL I'd get a lot more dropouts.
I would tend to take the cynical view that the point of petitions in general is that it lets people feel like they're making making their voice heard and acting as a pressure relief valve of sorts for all but the most serious of grievances. Most protests today fulfill the same purpose.
Only tangentially related, but some of you may be amused to learn that one legal standard for whether something infringes a trademark is the "Moron in a hurry" test: meaning, would a moron in a hurry confuse the thing at question with the thing claiming infringement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry
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I dont think you want Juicero to be your example of a successful IoT startup.
Glass roof is standard on Model S too now...
Considering taxes for more conventional jobs, $40k under-the-table cash would be the equivalent of $60-70k of conventional wage income. Depending on city and state, that would be either solidly middle income or lower middle income.
Don't forget there's also Xcode's built-in view debugger. Very useful tool!
See, whats funny to me about this, is that you've gone and given yourself the title of "Americans", whereas the people who were there before you, and had established civilizations, are given the title "Native Americans". That doesn't make any sense. How about instead, Native Americans can drop the Native qualifier and Americans can start calling themselves "Foreign Americans". That's much more logical, and historically consistent.

(Also, "independent, foreign-recognized nation in the Americas"? What about the Six Nations? They were certainly recognized as nations by the British)
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I do not support that either.
I really want to use Plume... but I don't want my WiFi network to depend on "the cloud". I don't see any reason they should need to upload data about my private internal network to their servers. It means I can't trust them. If they ever went out of business, got acquired, or otherwise shut the service down I'd be left with a bunch of bricks too.

Does anything else do the same kind of mesh dynamic frequency allocation, but without requiring any kind of cloud service?
> Honestly the big reason mobile radios are more reliable is that they're allowed to transmit at like 20x the power of devices in the ISM band.

Yes and no. You can always go faster with more TX power, but if your neighbor can do the same then you get interference.

I can see 20 networks around my house. If everyone 20xs their power it would probably be thousands competing on a few narrow bands.
Working at Walmart is as far from stress free as you can be. Ever had to wonder if you would have enough money to feed your kids that night? Holy first world problems.
I think there can be some merit to "styles". Personally I have a hard time focusing when reading something (possibly adult ADD but I haven't sought a professional opinion) which is why I find YouTube videos much more helpful if I am to learn something.
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I take your point, but not everyone learns the same lessons in childhood; furthermore, ethical analysis is not always so simple as it appears. You may intuitively know that one course is right while another is wrong, but lack the vocabulary to articulate why to someone else. Politicians and other social technologists profit from such conceptual illiteracy.

I've never taken an ethics course myself, but we discussed ethical problems extensively when I was in high school and I've read numerous books on the subject. It's taken me until middle age to be able to easily recognize and debunk unethical rhetorical strategies and philosophical positions, and I'm sure than in 10 and 20 years I'll bemoan my present lack of sophistication.
Isn't that also true for a "biking app"? It'll be improved over time as development is put into it.
I do not want kids who learn only what they are interested in. I know too many adults who don't like to read, hate math... - they never would have learned to read or do basic math if they had not been forced at some point.

Learning what you are interested in is fine when you have the basics and want to fill some time. It doesn't matter to me if you learn to welding or piano - both are interesting and could potentially make you money, but neither is core to life. You could add hundreds of other things to that list.

Learning can start with your interested, but at some time you will realize something is hard. At that point you need something higher to force you to buckle down and study when it isn't fun anymore. I think all great piano players can tell you that there was a time their tried to stop playing completely and their parents didn't allow it.
yeah, a lot of the problems with the fiber rollout (I am not affiliated with Sonic, but I'm in their fiber zone and read a lot of their statements about fiber as they were starting up) is that you're limited by overhead wires, ground-level distribution boxes, and a number of other things that make infrastructure hard to build, somewhat understandably. Like, I happen to be lucky as the road I'm on is parallel to and one block east of a road with no fiber.

I believe the initial rollout was also a function of current subscriber density, like if they could count on converting N customers per street, it was a more compelling argument.
(Related to my company) I've spoken with a half dozen government officials in the US and they all said they do not consider petitions in policy making. The biggest problem they have is not knowing easily what fraction of the signers are in their constituency. Beyond this, they see petitions as a marketing ploy by organized groups and hence further discount it.

Btw, interesting article on change.org's challenges with business model: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/change-dot-ug...
Since the page doesn't really call out who's speaking, the presenter is Raph Koster, who has a long history designing online games (including Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies) and writing about game design theory.

https://www.raphkoster.com/about-raph/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster
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> I dont need the "most popular" browser, I need the most secure one.

then you really ought to be using chrome
Apple Is Working on a Dedicated Chip to Power AI on Devices
It likely makes the scores​ higher on tests, though not necessarily because they've learned the material better.

Anecdotally, I've seen recent immigrant children struggling to understand user interfaces (that I would argue were poorly designed, not that it matters to anyone caught in the bureaucracy) that more computer literate kids "get" immediately. The struggles with UI, such as kids literally spending dozens of minutes trying to get to the next question, undoubtedly exhaust and frustrate them. One can only guesstimate the effect on test scores but it can't be positive.

More exposure to a variety​ of software/UIs seems to matter.
I wonder if future popular virtual worlds won't go more towards the 'abandon all hope ye who enter here'-kind of route. That being said, the premise of setting up AI Police in games to avoid abuse seems like an amazing project to work on.
I think it's more appropriate to say that some people have deficits in taking in information in particular ways. Someone with an auditory processing disorder will not retain spoken information, for instance.

What bugs me about the OP article is that they pan "learning styles" consistently without saying what should be used instead, and I have to assume that the instead is something that only makes sense to neuroscientists and looks a lot like "learning styles" if you explain it to a layman.
I salute your effort! Best wishes.
Charles Simonyi is also the person behind the Hungarian Notation of naming variables.
Glad it helped you. And thedjinn is right, Xcode's view debugger is really nice if you haven't tried it. I'd prefer it to the debugging overlay whenever you're running from Xcode.
Well I'm glad HN can put an article with 58 points and 4 hours on the front page while BS like the FBI violating surveillance law gets pushed to the second page.

Right to attention indeed...
Where “good peers” means that the other students have quiet space to do homework, enough money in the family that everyone isn’t constantly stressed about losing their house, access to office supplies and books, a comfortable bed to sleep in, access to fresh vegetables instead of highly processed food, good health insurance, are not located next to a superfund site or living in a house filled with lead paint, haven’t had their fathers dragged off to prison for small-time drug offenses, don’t need to be taking care of younger siblings because their single mother works 2 jobs, don’t get treated suspiciously by shopkeepers, aren’t harassed by the police all the time, don’t need to go through metal detectors every day on the way into school, have the resources to pay for extracurricular music lessons and private math tutoring, go to a school where the teacher turnover is low and the school can afford to maintain the facilities and provide materials, .....
> trust to schedule early-morning rides to the airport and things like that

It's nice that you can schedule things like this, but if I have a 6AM connecting flight to a once in a two year trip outside the country, I'm booking a rental the night before and dropping the car off early in the morning before my flight. What happens if the driver for some reason can't make it that morning? Is there a backup driver? I'd need to be guaranteed with a backup list at least 10 deep to go with the lyft option here.
I'd rather be able to lock myself out from distracting apps for a relatively short span (e.g. 30-60m) and the mechanism to unlock it somehow requires either meditation or -- since calm is hard to detect -- a certain kind of novelty-less focus.

Brainstorming: Suppose you must enter a random 3 digit code for an early "unlock" of no-distraction mode. The only way to get the code is to watch a blank screen for 2-3 minutes, where each digit is briefly visible at an unpredictable time spread out through the duration.

The task would be relatively easy, yet also force the user to have a bit of "uncomfortable alone with their thoughts" time while waiting for the next digit to appear.
> The United States of America declared independence in 1776, becoming the first independent, foreign-recognized nation in the Americas

Quite a number of native nations were recognized by each other and even European powers. The US was the first post-colonial, recognized independent state, but the post-colonial part is significant.
So how does one set up a LTE network in their home? :)
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I was glad to see that Raph Koster is still puttering about. Star Wars Galaxies soaked up many hours of my time as a teenager.
What a fascinating project! The tooling source code sounds like a pretty awesome find as well. Wish you guys the best of luck and thank you for documenting your efforts!
I think the problem to be solved is a simpler one: choice.

Right now, our focus/attention is at the mercy of only a few big companies. Because of the silos/"network effect", we can't switch to other providers, and there is basically no competition, and no way out for consumers.

If there was choice, we could switch to service providers that are more decent regarding our attention.

Another angle on the problem could be ads. If we would not allow ads, but just paid a fixed amount of money for a service, then the whole attention-grabbing problem would not exist.
This is hardly a uniquely Canadian issue. I looked at public schools in SF and was amused to find there were Mandarin and Vietnamese only public schools that would not accept my English speaking children because they didn't speak Mandarin/Vietnamese. Again, public schools, in the USA, where English was not an option. And the English schools had long waiting lists, go figure.