skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's not snake oil. There are only a couple reasons it wouldn't work: you're in an unusual and unfortunate indoor environment with insufficient reflectors, or the modem designers were incompetent. Barring those things, you'll get a faster connection.
For different people each one of those methods might he easier than the other.

I pay attention in lectures and meeting never take notes and that forces me to take everything in and engage fully. Reading and learning is more difficult because it involved in two activities .
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14417340
UBI in its most corrupt form turns into communism. A

I know it's fashionable to label any level of government involvement in the economy as "communism", but unless the means of production are collectively owned, it's not communism.

Public financing with private delivery is just a form of hybrid capitalism (and is the model used for socialized healthcare delivery in a number of nations).
It sounds like you do not understand. This is not a problem with sideloading. This is a problem with the Chrome Web Store itself having hundreds or thousands of malicious extensions (Google refuses to either implement an approval process for extensions or police reported malicious extensions in an expedient manner), and a browser that is easily exploitable to trick people into installing them.

You can hit a single accidental click on a malicious Google ad (yes, there are many), and end up with a voice telling you to click the "Install Extension" button to regain control of your browser, which alternates between a JavaScript alert popup message and the extension installation prompt to make it hard to get out of any other way (it's doable, if you're not a layperson). Approving it installs an extension which can inject ads into web pages and collect data on everything you visit and anything you type into Chrome.

Sure, it's removable, but most of the victims of this behavior don't even know what Chrome extensions are, much less how to remove them.

This is absolutely something Google has failed to address, and it's really not accurate to refer to Chrome as "the most secure browser" while this is so rampant and unhandled.
This kind of thing happens everywhere. Good school districts in the US aren't usually good because they're better funded or because the teachers are really amazing (those things may or may not be true) but because a variety of factors (including housing costs, commutes poorly served by public transit) result in much higher average teachability and lower disruptiveness in the student body. You're purchasing good peers for your kids when you buy/rent housing in a good district, above all else.
>"For evil to triumph, all that is required is for good men to respond rationally to incentives."

Words to live by if you've never encountered a problem you can't solve with A*...
Ask HN: What are you trying to learn right now?
One of the arguments seem rather weak:

> Throughout most of American history, kids generally didn't go to high school, yet the unschooled rose to be admirals, like Farragut; inventors, like Edison; captains of industry, like Carnegie and Rockefeller;

Oh, "Einstein was bad at math! and I'm bad at math ... so I can be a genius too!". Farragut, Edison and Rockefeller would have probably excelled anywhere. Schooling, no schooling, home-schooling or Montessori schooling. What about the millions of people who were not schooled, and remained philistines their whole life?

If you are trying to solve your own smart child's education, his arguments make perfect sense. If you are trying to optimise the overall level of education of a country with a limited budget, things are more nuanced. There is, without question, lots of room for improvement in education. But suggesting that anybody can be a star if you take away that pesky schooling is disingenuous.
This is spam. If you have an argument for or against and want to provide data you link to said data. This is a link to a hardback book for purchase.

I'm not saying you're right or wrong I just find this the opposite of effective for conveying your point.
I can't believe nobody's recommended "The E-Myth Revisited" yet.

Take a month vacation and transfer the domain knowledge to paper.
This Week's Cover of 'The New Yorker' Was Sketched on an iPad
Two projects I can name with.
1. Whatsapp , facebook group finder.
http://groupsone.com/
2. Chrome extension for Indian railways tatkal booking website.
http://www.spotjourney.com/

Just love them.
Pretty-printers are also useful for the times when Lisp is printing code for you to read, for example macro expansions.
Here's a vested interest trying to cherry-pick studies to make tablets in the classroom seem useful, and it's pretty thin gruel:

http://www.securedgenetworks.com/blog/8-Studies-Show-iPads-i...

1. A study showing that giving kindergartners short-term exposure to tablet learning programs caused a short-term increase in literacy scores (probably just novelty effect)

2. A non-study anecdote from a med school

3. A survey showing kids prefer being given iPads to not being given iPads

4. The same kindergarten study again

5. A probably real study showing that math apps improve algebra test scores (probably through increased practice)

6. Another survey showing kids still want toys

7. Anecdote that tablets can improve accessibility for disabled students

8. Another legit-looking math study with a positive result

9. Another give-us-toys survey

Assuming these guys have done a good job searching for evidence of value, the only decent result for mainstream K-12 education is that it maybe makes math practice more palatable which would definitely improve math scores.
Zuckerberg calls for government to give everybody universal basic income
People have decided to conflate "functional" with "purity" in an odd way in this thread. Is OCaml now not functional?

I will leave discourse about the degree of purity that grants a "truly" moniker to people with more free time, but I suspect it's counter-productive.
Not an American, so could someone tldr me what makes Sonic.net interesting? Just better than Comcast/VZ/etc?
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There seems to be a basic problem in this argument: a lack of definition of distraction or any discussion of its value.

For example, lets assume the consciousness is an illusion, a sort of biological trick of evolution. In that case, I'm not sure why we couldn't say that all the stimuli from advertisements, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are equal in value to "focused conscious awareness". They are stimuli of a different sort but qualitatively no different than the stimuli of "focused conscious awareness". I'm not sure why we would inherently assume that "focused conscious awareness" is of greater value. There are tons of people now who are living in a permanently distracted state and they seem to have a conscious experience that is not qualitatively different than other people's. They don't slip into a coma or get concussions or die.

Heck, maybe distraction is a better state than attention. After all, don't people complain of headaches when they focus on a problem for too long?
First sentence:

> Her name is Elizabeth and she is a parent to three girls that are being unschooled.

Merriam webster says

> to make (one) disregard schooling or training

I don't think the well-written article and the dictionary are on the same page.
An extension wouldn't let us define a custom protocol. We get more freedom this way. FWIW, our meta goal is to successfully demonstrate with Beaker, then approach standards bodies.
Mark Zuckerberg calls for government to give everybody free money
I thought it was clever. Hadn't seen it done before but I'm sure they weren't the first. I definitely agree this will get annoying very quickly if this catches on.

I also hadn't seen the "Someone from $location recently ordered #item" as a popup. Interesting twist on social validation. Saw it on this page https://www.retropatents.com/collections/all
Misjudged is an understatement. There is no appetite for these over-priced "Connected" bikes. They are essentially taking a $1000 Chinese carbon bike and selling it for $1500 with the extra cost attributed to an integrated, non-upgradeable computer and some sensors, all of which can already be found in any given customer's existing smartphone, which can easily be mounted onto whatever bike the customer wants. I don't get why anyone would take a bicycle, something that has a useful lifespan of potentially decades and integrate it with technology that will become obsolete in less than a couple of years. Just because you can put a computer and sensors in something doesn't mean you should or that anyone will pay for it.
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Docker and Kubernetes...just beginning it.
the obvious elephant in the room is: who's gonna fix markets that are not what we believe? Do you have any solutions, beyond pointing out examples of what's wrong? How do you see crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and others playing a role?
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/what-is-technology-do...

Sam Harris and Tristan Harris recently had a (pretty long) podcast related to this subject. Well worth listening to if you have the time.
This has become a huge fad in countries like India of late (seen this first hand). Rather than aiding the learning experience, these are used by institutions to brand themselves as "smart schools" and in turn charge higher fees for providing so called "smart e-education".

Then there are xyz companies capitalizing on this by building custom tablets/ipads with their own educational content ripping off both schools and the parents by selling "premium" content that helps students have an "edge" among their peers.

But then, for most parents this is also a matter of pride - "my kids attend a smart school! What about your kids?" which is fueling this pathetic trend.

Almost all of my cousins are enrolled in these smart schools and they don't care much since they now have device to play games on in lieu of learning something meaningful.

I feel sad to see these in a country where there aren't proper schools in thousands of villages.

EDIT: fixed typos
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> It would be nice if Apple detected a bad WiFi connection and fell back to cell, but it seems they haven't figured out that trick yet.

Apple introduced this very feature in iOS 9
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205296

I've never really had time or interest to investigate how well it's implemented, admittedly. It caused some consternation among those with crap data plans at the time, who where understandably upset when the iOS 9 update enabled the feature and lead to unexpected bills.
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Seems what you describe could be done through a BLE accessory that straps to the handlebar or at most an aftermarket handlebar with LEDs/sensors integrated, which talks to a phone app.

I'm part of the "athlete" market segment who is happy spending $2k on a "dumb" road bike and I also commuted on that dumb bike every day through the city.

The same applies to a power meter - if I want to know my watts I'd rather buy a PowerTap hub or crank and put it on the bike I want rather than having to buy a whole bike with it permanently integrated.

I wonder if, instead of building the whole bicycle you couldn't do great things by building awesome aftermarket components (e.g. try to be Anker, not Apple.)

That said, I know it's easy to be a naysayer, and I wish anyone who's working to innovate the cycling industry all the best! (Lots of <3 to Strava, Garmin & Di2)
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A tablet (iPad or otherwise) much less so; tablets are very much "consumption" devices, which can consume packaged educational content and videos, but don't help with collaboration.

However, a two-way interactive device like a laptop or Chromebook? Typing homework instead of writing it? Having collaborative tools available to work with others, both in and out of school? Playing with preliminary programming environments? Trying experiments and visualizations? Yes, that can absolutely help.

Just handing a device to every student will not automatically improve education, though; they're not magic. There need to be lesson plans, adapted materials, tools (e.g. for teachers to collaborate with students and students to collaborate with each other), and not just the same lessons ported to turn in homework on a computer. That takes time and effort, but the result will be students much more adapted to a highly tech-integrated society.

(Disclaimer: the above derives from professional experience and observations, but is not a comment made with my professional hat on; not speaking for anyone else here.)

As for the comments on social media: yes, and that's something many of them will do as adults too. Many people are highly social, and hang out with each other online. Some of what they do will be educational and productive, but having a computer doesn't mean it has to be used entirely for education and productivity. Even just posting online provides practice writing and typing, both of which benefit from practice. Some of their time might be spent on random Internet forum sites arguing with each other, which of course will never be a skill they'll make use of as well-adjusted adults like us. But it'll keep kids inside and thus off your lawn.
I actually wrote a post about the benefits of ed tech in education for grad school several years ago, which addresses this issue: http://blog.wsd.net/jreeve/the-case-for-ed-tech/

The TL;DR is: Yes, they undeniably improve academic performance, and studies have shown this repeatedly. However, keep in mind the studies demonstrating this are done with teachers who actually knew how to use the technology, were trained to do so, and had specific instructional goals in mind for using the tech to benefit their students. If schools/districts just throw this technology at teachers without proper training and academic objectives, it will do nothing. Computers and tablets are useful in the hands of a good teacher, but they are tools. They cannot turn bad instructional practices into good instructional practices.
Obvious answer: "yes, both, several of the above". Doesn't have to be an either-or.
yes, the pragmatic consequences of not adapting are being left behind. life is not fair, and it never will be. even if we implemented a UBI, there would be some other "injustice" to complain about or excuse for inequality. there is no end to it. the only fair system is one where you make your own way.
'Plant Factories' Churn Out Clean Food in China’s Dirty Cities
Do you drive all the way to the farm to get your groceries? Or do you get them at a grocery store?

Convenience adds value.
Google project shield was released first. It was announced in early/mid 2016, whereas AWS shield was released in December.
No. It's meant to augment learning, but it's doing the exact opposite. Laptops/Tablets are redundant objects in the classroom, because instead of providing support to what's already good in the classroom, they're designed to replace them. Personally I'd choose paperback over ebook every single time.
I was debating about getting it and curious if it really makes that world a difference? Does a gigbit connection make the internet substantially better?

It's almost double the cost of MonkeyBrains another provider that has a strong net neutrality position, custom service, and etc.
This is great! Any plans on adding in a boilerplate for packaging (e.g. setting up setup.py with its tests, etc. and having the correct file structure for imports). Its the one thing that drives me crazy when writing Python.
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In the short term, having this platform built in to a bike allows us to offer the turn by turn navigation with less distraction and much more robust data collection. That data collection will be used to improve the navigation based on real world feed back in the future.

In the long term, building this platform into a full bike means that we can offer plenty more - imagine being able to locate your bike if it was stolen or, imagine your bike could communicate with other vehicles around you to keep the rider safe.

This is not to say that we only offer full bikes in the future. However, having the full bike now is allowing us to perfect the platform and understand the full range of needs for our riders.
Sorry, I do not. I set it up manually. While I do have some scripts, they are custom tailored to my network setup. That said, it's really easy to do.

You could use the other github scripts that folks have linked for setting up the VPN. Then you would want to set up recursive DNS servers on your home router and VPS nodes. Then look into iptables mangle to intercept DNS, NTP, etc. HAProxy L4 vip on the router is an easy way to forward some web traffic to Squid running on multiple VPS nodes. Squid has an intercept mode you can use for any traffic you want to throw at it. Unbound DNS can override min-ttl and allows overriding partial or complete DNS zones for block some shenanigans. Calomel.org has some articles on some of these things.

It's probably even better if you research each step yourself so that adversaries have to work harder to generalize attacks around your configuration.
> Good school districts in the US aren't usually good because they're better funded or because the teachers are really amazing (those things may or may not be true) but because a variety of factors (including housing costs, commutes poorly served by public transit) result in much higher average teachability

Good school districts are generally good because they have a higher proportion of students with educated parents who can positively model intellectual engagement, and provide educational opportunities and resources.

It's not necessarily that the reachability of the students is better any more that the teaching is better, it's that the students in those districts are likely to be both being taught and learning independently outside of school, which gives better results.

Better school districts don't make your kid perform better, so much as your ability to afford to get into a better school district is correlated with features which would result in your kid doing better anywhere.
I don't know how wise it is for a child (without having learned the value/practice of critical thinking yet) to gain foundational knowledge on the Internet of all places.

> if the child values learning

Big if there. Kids aren't really the ones who understand the value of learning. Give a kid with the ability to read the Internet and say "have at it" will probably not result in an educated child.
At least on the outside of the packaging, I don't think the vast majority talk about spectrum over allocation.

Of course many issues like that could be solved if APs shipped with their signal strength on low rather than blasted to the FCC limits. But I don't think we'll see that changed any time soon.
> Having written heavily callback-driven code. Threading contexts manually, thinking about object lifetimes, I can say that coroutines have a much cleaner flow to them and can make it easier to write and later read and debug programs than crazy callbacks and contexts.

This is the biggest reason I vastly prefer using coroutines in my Javascript projects (by way of `redux-saga` if there's heavy lifting, or just async/await otherwise).

> Concurrency is about how you organize a solution really more than anything.

You hit the nail on the head here. IMHO, business logic should be expressed procedurally, whereas driver code in an event-loop driven environment (like V8) is more suited to a functional style. Coroutines let you do both, quite cleanly.

Thanks for the links, btw, I've been wanting to dig through other code like this in more established languages. :)
Too many things, but offhand some stuff that's on my queue:

R

Prolog

Deep Learning

Reinforcement Learning

Symbolic Regression

Abductive Inference

Semantic Networks

Case Based Reasoning

boning up on graph algorithms

Ansible

etc.
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Here's an idea: selling ETFs as physical documents, or as a sort of cryptocurrency. You could trade with others like cash, except it rises with inflation.
"I'm at the mechanic's, I'm pinging him for his expert advice. I'm at the carwash place, I'm asking them if they wouldn't mind doing the interior windows for a bit extra, etc."

You're asking your mechanic for free advice? You're asking the carwash guys for extra services they don't advertise or normally supply?
Oh lord, this is so shocking! /s

Why is state intelligence even a thing? The military is capable of gathering all of the defensive intelligence that we need to protect ourselves.

These state cowboys are out there making deals and cracking my WiFi to see what porn I'm watching in the name of counter-terror.

Nonviolent threats do not necessitate or validate state intelligence imo.
One of the first to deploy residential and small business gigabit Internet connectivity at affordable prices. Strong respect for customer privacy.

They back their words up with actions. Basically, an ethical, value-to-the-customer organization and business model. (As of a couple of years ago; I'm out of touch.)

I'll add, also a local/regional player. Good for competition.

P.S. In the U.S., having such a choice in terms of a provider and value for service, is actually rather unusual. People who don't have something like Sonic in their area (me, for one) and who know anything about ISP's and what they provide, look on longingly.

Google's Fiber offer almost made it to my area. Sigh... so close, and yet so far.
If I can get paid 20K more designing an algorithm that adjusts prices on a more individual level, am I any less ethical than the person saving $2 by ignoring any of the ethical concerns buying the cheaper shirts?
Found out about this a couple months ago via the Lazy Game Reviews channel, have the PS 4 Controller one on my wall I love it.
David from Vanhawks here - couldn't agree more. That's why our vision isn't just to 'throw technology at bicycles.' What the Valour does allow is for rich data collection so that we can help shape more useful changes in the future.
> We are releasing updated desktop & command line app on Tuesday with support for the protocol, as defined in the paper.

Awesome, congratulations! :):)

For distributed/p2p software these are just amazing times to be alive :)
So you can track the bike as the thief rides away with it? :D
How is a Chromebook less of a consumption device than an iPad?
Thanks. I was like, noop, not gonna clone your repo, just show me the result.

It's interesting they seem to avoid the core city with all the high-rise condos and big companies focusing instead on mission hipsters and sunset grandmas.
Some people have long-term goals, and the distractions distract from accomplishing them. The qualitative difference is that people who can avoid the distractions are better able to make progress toward their goals.

Nobody wants to look back on their life and think "yep, I sure am glad I got all that facebooking in before I died."
If you look at the post they're just talking about price discrimination tactics employed by big data companies. Crypto-currencies have nothing to do with this and no role to play.

Deal and comparison sites are the solution here basically, and they're readily employed by people who actually use the market and don't just blindly buy from 1 seller.

tldr: If you want a good deal, go looking for one, if you don't, you get screwed.