skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but you can do Rainier with your own gear and your own plan, as opposed to having a bunch of sherpas do all the work.

Sure, you can do the same for Everest, but then you're actually in a class of elite alpinists. That's not really what we're discussing here.

Complete beginners climb Everest as their first and often last major summit. No argument about altitude can prove that it's not a beginner climb if hundred of beginners are doing it every year.
This kind of work shows a great direction for the future of web development. It's true that the HN community might be more incline to programming than others, however this library makes building web pages user friendly while still keeping it close to the language.
Also, huge props to Lea Verou who's been notable at working on improving the web and CSS!
That's commonly said, but I checked my cities budget numbers and it's actually the opposite. The city average per pupil is $9,215 per year. The school system as a whole is funded citywide, then funding is allocated by the school system with extra money and teachers sent into "bad" schools. The "bad schools" have more teachers per student, more money per student, and smaller schools, and average between $12,000 and $14,000 per pupil.

However, if you move out of the city, across the state line, to the richer bedrooms community with the really good public schools, you will find that they spend even less per student than the average city school. The best school system in the metro area spends $7,600 per student.

Parents matter far more than the amount of money spent on the school system.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14424279 and marked it off-topic.
I know it is not a fair comparison, but modern IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA do pretty much everything demonstrated in this video. They build a database of the project, and let you do refactoring with the help of that.

The only thing that is notably missing from IDEA is the graphical representation: but raise your hand if you ever missed to see your program represented as a flowchart, for example. Does it actually have any real value? Perhaps, while you are learning programming.

The diagrams that are actually important and useful are mostly architecture diagrams and are impossible to create from source code - and it is also very hard to generate meaningful programs from architecture diagrams.
Have you ever tried Cython? It's always seemed cool to me, so I've always planned on using that if I ran into a case where I needed (relatively) direct C library access or wanted to speed things up beyond what straight Python is capable of.
It may be true that they have to abandon it, but they should be very careful to listen to developers on what features the new API should have. Extensions like Pentadactyl keep some of their biggest supporters from leaving Firefox. Having those kinds of true fans is like having free employees that will tirelessly evangelize your product. It's cheaper to cater to them and have them do your marketing than hiring marketing employees.
I worked at Intentsoft in its earlier days (2006-2011) and left just as it was really starting to seriously staff up. I look at the pictures of the office these days and it's so surreal to me to see the absurd growth of what had stayed a small team for a really long time.

Is the Pole Position cabinet still there? Did anyone ever fix the monitor? I miss that thing.
If you get hurt while helping a friend, would you really ask them to compensate you? I wouldn't unless they were somehow responsible. Accidents happen.
It works but does it "work"? I've never seen a straight answer on this. It's not validated - does it really work, as in, error corrects?
Being Jewish helps.
Your account has been using primarily (actually exclusively) for political battle. That's an abuse of this site and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of their politics. Especially when they cross into incivility, which you've done repeatedly.

The purpose of HN is to gratify intellectual curiosity, not smite enemies. The lines aren't sharply drawable, of course, and it's understandable if discussion crosses into political topics sometimes—but that's quite different from using the forum as a political or ideological platform. We use the 'primarily' test: if an account is primarily using HN that way, it's abusing the site and we ban it.
The http://usedopamine.com/ does not work properly with Firefox. It would be great if you fixed this issue.
Glad you like it!

There's a third benefit too. Putting a lag between the action and the reward rewires the brains wanting system. That itch at the back of your brain or the impulse to reach for your phone at the briefest hint of boredom doesn't have to be there. Using space will kill that wanting impulse.
Which part of integrating with GitLab do you find difficult? We'd love to talk about it and improve.

Maybe we could open some issues and talk about what you'd like to have but is missing, or some things you think we're doing wrong.

* You could use our API to integrate with GitLab [1]

* You could develop a fullblown project service and contribute it to the codebase [2]

* You could use custom webhooks to add custom functionality [3]

[1] - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/

[2] - https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/integrations/project...

[3] - https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/integrations/webhook...
> Is this something out of Dilbert?

Yep, it was a line spoken by Dogbert. /s
If you find this sort of discussion interesting, I strongly recommend checking out Time Well Spent: http://www.timewellspent.io/
If it's not "one-size fits all" doesn't that mean different modes are preferable for different students, wouldn't it be reasonable to call these modes "styles"?

The article sounds like a straw man, I can readily believe that someone identified as "listening style" only getting education aurally would be ineffective; but that doesn't mean that reinforcing information update aurally, or using a communication style of learning won't help, surely.

Personally I found I need to write to acquire information, an important part of learning; also doodling helps me digest complex information. I'm quite visual in some ways, I can't do directions but a glance at a map does work for me - similarly I usually need a mental picture to hang further learning on. Fractal geometry came easily to me but I've never managed to grok hypercubes as I can't really conjure a mental model, etc..

I'd absolutely agree that pigeonholing people as "style X" and educating them separately is probably not good, personally I've never come across that in teaching.
It's not really easy or fun, because you often end up with white knights swarming you.

He didn't say anything that you didn't say, he just used fewer words. Your original comment:

> if I had a serious prospect of ending up with genuine fuck-you money, and all I had to do to get it was keep doing what I was already doing and gut it out for a few more years, then that is precisely what I would do

In short: suck it up. You used more flowery language and a perhaps gentler delivery, but your message is the same.

> But whom, really, do you imagine it helping, to choose to act this way?

I'm of the opinion that a lot of people should be told to suck it up a lot more than they're being told today. My close friends and I often tell each other to suck it up, or equivalent, and it's not being contemptuous -- it's, for us, a reminder that life is actually pretty good and these are first-world problems.

The OP's phrasing, "I don't want to be a founder anymore", seems especially egregious for this forum. Not "I'm burnt out", or "how do you keep pressing on?", but "My successful startup is being bought and I don't want to be a founder any more". It would be like visiting a forum for college-aged NBA hopefuls and posting, "I'm about to sign a contract worth millions with the Kings but I don't want to be a professional basketball player anymore". It's almost intentionally crafted to be inflammatory.
well, now I might be convinced to vote for him -- might.. Not a huge Zuck fan, I think he means well. But I AM a big advocate for UBI, and think we definitely need leaders who support it in all areas of government.

Though I think Zuck would have a better chance at President if he ran and won Governor of California first and worked up the ladder.
In the past there have been a mix of "off-the-shelf" memory scrapers as well as custom written targeted malware. Generally they'll get inside the network and push out an exe/dll to all of the POS machines from some compromised machine. Depending on how locked down the POS machines are, there are various methods for either getting read access to the POS application process memory or having the dll injected into its memory. From there they find a way to extricate the data, either manually or automatic, depending on how locked down the network is. Application whitelisting solutions can really help block this kind of attack, but they're not perfect either. If an attacker can figure out how to get root on the machines, game over. This is why stand alone point-to-point encrypted EMV card readers are the way to go. You can't scrape the process memory for data it doesn't have, and the card readers themselves are pretty tamper resistant (if you don't count external skimmers)
That's the DSL DevCon demo, video here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/DSL-DevCon-2009/Intentional...

Best demo we ever gave while I was there, by a longshot.
> I thought most people learn dancing by someone telling them the steps.

No. Most people learn dancing by watching and repeating, with some explanation along with it.

> At least in ballroom dancing. How do they explain the steps?

In large part by demonstration (there's description that goes along, but the demonstration is primary.) Source: I've nearly completed a long course of instruction for ballroom dance teachers, from a well-regarded teacher-of-teachers, and have taken lots of ballroom dance classes, some from internationally-recognized teachers.

> "left, left, right, 1,2,3,4 turn" or similar.

That's more how they cue students going through a pattern that's been demonstrated than how they explain a pattern. You can explain a pattern in words without demonstration (manuals do this, for instance), but that's usually done as reference material that accompanied traditional teaching-by-demonstration (or, for auto-didacts, videos in place of in-person demonstration), and it sucks on its own; you need a lot of contextual knowledge to get value out of it.
Don't drive 250km/h if you cannot see the traffic ahead. It's a public road.

No speed limit != no responsibility.
"grandiose ideological rhetoric"?

He's simply disagreeing. Although I disagree with him, I support his right to respectfully disagree. He takes, by the way, the position of most members of Congress and most of those who ran for President.

It's disgusting how the mods on this site shut anybody down that doesn't conform to Silicon Valley political thought.
I have a lot of respect for WSJ for actually having a paywall. I find this a lot more honest than the ad-based "social contract".

Never will I understand the moral obligation to allow a third party to try to manipulate me into buying something unrelated that I don't need in order to be allowed to read what I actually want to read. If you don't want me to read something without paying, then do just that. Don't try to control and subvert my computer to show me ads.
Keeping money under the mattress is a good way to get cleaned out if anyone gets too curious about how such a person saves.

Becoming a loan shark is a possibility, I suppose, but puts someone in direct competition with professional criminals and creates a whole new set of existential and legal problems.

One low-risk strategy I've heard of being used by cash-savvy people is purchasing food stamps at a discount to their face value. Again, pretty much any kind of black market activity comes with legal risks.
New EU's data protection Regulation will apply in May 2018
It had fuck all effect though.
Drchrono – Help us change healthcare through Python/Django
Why is he using AES-CBC rather than AES-GCM? GCM is generally faster & more optimized, especially for hardware offloads like might be present on some routers.

Is there something about OpenVPN that doesn't support GCM?
Just to be clear, does this solve the issues with GPU passthrough in virtualization environments (i.e. KVM)?
U.K. Pleads with Congress to Change Outdated Privacy Law to Help Fight Terrorism
> So what - will companies stop producing non-self-driving cars? Will regulators force that action?

self-driving cars will quickly prove to be thousands of times safer than human-driven cars. given a few decades for public opinion to align with the facts we'll see human-driven cars heavily regulated as the extreme hazards that they are.

> I can't see either happening if self-driving cars have major limiting factors like that.

the 'limiting factors' are introduced as optional 'luxury features' several years after self-driving cars have established domination of the market, and over the years are integrated downward into more accessible models.
I've never seen that write up before, thank you. It's good.
This is wonderful. Thanks for posting this. As someone who took machine learning classes from both a computer science department and a statistics department I kind of always had in my mind what the author said in this article but I wasn't able to put it in words. Not to say anything against the statistics way to teach ML, I was much more comfortable in the class taught by a CS prof. I guess the CS way is much more amenable to beginners but others might have different experiences.
Bring ur child's magic to their reality, Make Movie-like Special Effects at home
I think he means the rust compiler.
Actually, both the ways you describe don't work. Observing other dancers is not helpful unless you already have a mental framework to know what you should be observing. Learning to dance by being told steps is ineffective because it doesn't teach you how to actually interact with other dancers, maintain flow, handle the unexpected, or feel where your body mechanics are.

Based on teaching a lot of people to dance and watching a lot of other teaching, the most effective thing I have found is to put someone in a practice dance hold (both people's arms on the other's shoulders, mostly straight) and sway back and forth until they start to feel body connection. Then start to change the magnitude of the sway, make a few simple steps with no warning, just keeping them rooted in the kinesthetic sense of connection. And when that connection is strong enough, bring them into close hold and just start into a waltz. I will have to massively overcompensate on turns initially because they don't know how to do them, but after a few turns around the room, they're ready for that correction. Left turns don't happen that first time out. Then take them contradancing, where they will be guided through interactions among lots of dancers and given a feel for flow. Add something like Renaissance or Scottish low country and you get step work. Only at this point is it useful to start observing other dancers or being told things.
Interesting idea. I don't have any bitcoins, though. Maybe setup a gofundme account. or patreon. Just a thought.
As someone who despises BuzzFeed this article was about something I didn't already know about and was both somewhat interesting and informative. I liked it. Not every piece needs to be investigative reporting nor a rehash of reddits front page. This was a good example of middle ground
We ban accounts that post this way to HN and have banned this one.
Bi-Directional Cursor Pagination with React.js, Relay, and GraphQL
Reading this article was great for me. It provided a perspective that I needed with a compelling argument for it.

Reading the comments was a huge mistake. It mired the previous sense of insight with contradictory perspectives supported by compelling anecdotes but, crucially, no analysis more rigorous than the original article.

Of course, you can make a compelling case for anything if you have rhetoric and evidence isn't demanded of you, but I think there's a point where analysis is of negative value.

In a way, learning this lesson has been valuable in and of itself.
Here is a followup from the same lead author of the paper referred to in that first blog post (Jim Gao) who apparently was involved in Deepmind's project. Note the conspicuous lack of any sort of reference to deep reinforcement learning

https://blog.google/topics/environment/deepmind-ai-reduces-e...
The Real Reason Zuckerberg Supports a Universal Basic Income
To those who are Francophonically impaired, https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
Everyone shares the home, so I'd think I'd do it by household...but cut 2 checks, average home rental cost nationwide + average cost of food at grocer. Then for each dependent add cost of food..maybe $100-200 extra. So say it's 1200 for rent, and 300 for food, and 3 kids at $100 extra they'd get like 1800 for everyone in household..
What a dumb uninformed thing to say. Fresco described communism as people unwilling to put further thoughts in "their" idea.

Reminds you of someone you know?
Most of these are design patents. They cover the physical form of the console -- not its function.
Netgear 'fixes' router with phone-home features that record IP and MAC addresses
Firstly, why have any official languages at all? Aside from government documents and the like (which are routinely translated into 10+ languages anyways), why does any language need to be "the official one"?

Also, what does it actually mean "can't even understand each other"? Understand the actual words? Understand as people? Sympathize with?

And I'd like to see how the status quo is supposed to be transformed into "two countries with each their own language". Will you slice off chunks of Eastern Ontario? Have enclaves on Montreal Island? Balkanize New Brunswick?
Show HN: Easy State: A library that replaces React's setState with plain JS
Audiobooks from Audible on the subject is also worth a listen. I listen to epictetus/seneca/aurelius at least once a year.
The question isn't whether you should or shouldn't try to improve, it's where to invest your resources. Servo improves the speed of layout, style, etc. but is that really what's making the web experience slow? If you do some performance tracing, you'll see your browser already spends a paltry amount of time doing those things. It's spending most of its time running ridiculous amounts of JS that's being pulled in from dozens of domains on any given page load. I don't think the sentiment is "lets be complacent", rather that Servo is optimising in the wrong places. We need to fix the web platform so that apps don't need to rely on performance killing techniques. Servo is cool, but I don't think it's solving what really ails the web.

Disclaimer: I work on Chrome.
>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.

I agree with you, although I wonder if that's what the parent is saying because one room school houses did teach all subjects. I think the parent is just advocating a more self-directed style of learning that still includes a full curriculum and some level of adult direction and oversight.
>We'll also try to spin off a separate business with the fired person at the head, instead of just firing, whenever possible.

That is priceless. A true gem.
Definitely if you used a debit card, since it could take a couple days to get any fraudulent charges reversed. Probably less important if you used a credit card, since you'll not have to pay for those charges and they'll just send you a new card at that point. I guess it just depends on if you want to be inconvenienced now or later :)

I personally used my credit card at one of the affected stores, and I do not plan on calling in to have my card number changed. I'll just keep a close eye on my statements (that, and I have alerts sent to my phone via SMS for any charge over $0.01, so I'd know pretty quickly)
"as things get cheaper because fewer people were used to make it"

You're saying price drops when cost drops, and that's empirically not true.

Price drops when demand drops, or when supply increases.

When the cost drops, then the producer just gets more profit. And if they're wise, they buy or merge with their slightly less efficient competitors, because collusion is illegal, but no one is stopping M&A these days. And for necessary goods like food, water, shelter, clothing, it's not like the demand drops much over time, so the demand stays where it was (or grows with population.)

Worker productivity is through the roof. That's automation.

Real wages are going down. That's evidence. What happens when they keep dropping? "Nothing changes," is your answer?
I spent about a decade in retail-ish jobs (started young). They are substantially easier to deal with when you know you have something else waiting for you. The difference between a lifer and a just-passing-through youngster is hard to overstate.
Ah, that'd make sense. We'll get there someday.
I always disliked learning foreign languages, but the hell I am happy that I can speak English. It would be huge disadvantage now and it would be harder to learn it now. I was never particularly interested in history, but I am glad they taught me some basics in elementary school. I could go on.

You assume that only top level knowledge matters. You also assume that every kid will be interested in everything, if only the teacher and environment did everything perfectly. Neither is true.

It is possible to learn things you are not particularly excited about. It is also possible to become later on interested in something you was not excited about initially. Things tend to become easier and more pleasant once you learned basics, learning basics part is the hardest one.

"But in free school settings the focus is first on what you want to accomplish and then how to do that, which most often then involves learning to read, write and math as an avenue to achieve something greater."

I prefer teachers who can make kids interested in math itself and physics itself and history itself and writing itself even if it is not immediately useful. It wont work on every kid and all kids will like some things more then other things, of course. But starting with assumption that it is not possible for them so lets not even try sound like definition of low expectations.
Depends on how it's used. You can use any tool poorly. Even large businesses do not always use their computers in the best way.

1.) I grew up in a poor area. For high school they introduced an alternative school where you could come in whenever-- basically just rooms full of computers, you would take the whole lesson on the computer. They were able to use only a few teachers for a lot of students this way. While the courses themselves could use a little more work, overall it allowed people to finish high school that otherwise wouldn't have. I think the "let the computer do a lot of the teaching" method is a great one. Lets people work at their own pace and takes some pressure off the teachers.

2.) In an ideal world I would think you could buy a laptop and then save money on books, but at least here in the USA I don't usually see it done that way.

3.) Even if they're doing totally irrelevant stuff, knowing how to use a computer to search for answers and filter out bad information is a great skill to have. So while yes, they need to do their homework, I don't think it's awful if they also use it for playing on.
Wow. I'd love to hear some of the audio examples used.

Any idea where or how we might be able to get those?
I have an Amex charge card with push notifications, so I'm going to let it ride. Thank you for the reply!
I'm French :) For now it's only a theory that is being investigated by the justice department.