skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was enrolled in the French Immersion program. At my school, we had both English and French programs. One of my memories of being in French Immersion, which is likely of relevance to this article, is that I remember in the 7th and 8th grade one of my teachers (who was also the vice-principal) was concerned about the segregation between the students in the French program and the students in the English program. i.e. During recess the students French program wouldn't play with the students in the English program, vice versa. We may have had a name for students in the English program--but I can't remember it now.

The segregation in the older years wasn't as strong as younger years, but it still existed.
> Jobs are vanishing

More accurately, the labor most people are suited for is becoming less valuable relative to capital and the labor of a narrowing elite.

If one allows arbitrarily low wages, jobs wouldn't disappear, just the pay most people could earn in them would drop in relative (and possibly absolute real) terms.
High pay? A really good courier makes maybe $40K. Most make less than that.
I'm really happy with Algo!

One minor issue I experienced: I have not had a good experience using Digital Ocean for VPNs. I tried manually setting up OpenVPN on it a while ago and got really bad upload speed (admittedly, I could have misconfigured it). With Algo, the speed seemed okay, but I would frequently "disconnect" every hour or two. According to Windows, I was still connected to the VPN, but my traffic wasn't getting out; I'd have to manually reconnect to get Internet access again.

I set up Algo on Azure a month ago and have had no problems at all. I'd highly recommend Algo if you're looking for ISP/untrusted network protection and pseudo-anonymization (3rd parties just seeing a cloud IP rather than your home IP).
Counterpoint: what about all of the people who went to school and are still philistines? People are proud of their lack of knowledge, and part of that is because it's 'okay' to hate school.

It's not entirely uncommon that people feel they learn way better outside of school. I'd say that's a pretty huge indication of failure, given the fact that the entire purpose of school is learning.
With value-ptr's would traversing the tree require making copies of examined nodes as you search? What would the tree_search method look like?
Is reading "visual"? Lectures are auditory? Although you can also see the lecturer probably...

Why not just say you learn better by reading? What is gained by dubiously subjectively categorizing everything into just "auditory", "visual", or "kinesthetic"?
From your first link:

Nearly 200,000 Americans over age 18 were recorded missing by law enforcement in 2007, but they represent only a fraction of the intentional missing: Many aren’t reported unless they are believed to be in danger. And according to a 2003 British study, two-thirds of missing adults make a conscious decision to leave.

Edited to add:

A few years ago, an investigator named Philip Klein was hired by Dateline NBC to locate Patrick McDermott, a onetime Hollywood cameraman who also happened to be Olivia Newton-John’s former partner. McDermott had disappeared from a fishing boat in the Pacific, and the authorities presumed him dead. Early on, Klein likewise turned up only the vaguest hints that McDermott could be alive. “This was the ultimate walk-away,” Klein says.

Then Klein decided to set up a Web site about the disappearance. Purporting to be asking for tips, it was designed specifically to trap visitors’ IP addresses. Suspecting that McDermott was in contact with at least one confidant from his former life — and relying on the investigator’s maxim that people on the run always monitor the pursuit — Klein blocked search engine crawlers from cataloging the site. He gave the URL only to McDermott’s friends and family. Ninety-six hours later, it started registering multiple daily hits from an IP address in the beach town of Sayulita, Mexico. Klein says he eventually tracked McDermott around South America and contacted him through an intermediary. McDermott had a simple message for the investigator: His new life was “nobody’s business.”

So, I guess if the law isn't looking for you, it can be done.
Introducing the ERA1100 (1950) [pdf]
You can be certain that any material changes due to this decision were factored into the stock price of both companies either before the decision went public or microseconds after it was made public.
In fact, Ride-sharing is why I can take a car to the airport.

My local taxi companies were so unreliable that I also drove and parked in long term for vacations.

It's only on the last couple of years that I feel comfortable enough to get a Lyft or Uber to airport and actually expect to make it timely ever time.
> That is, that's all it takes if the child values learning. If not, well, plenty of children manage not to learn in schools, too.

It's also entirely possible to take a child that values learning and drive that out of them through discouragement and disincentive, something schools are often quite good at.

On the flip side, it's entirely possible to encourage a child to value learning. But that's something that tends to happen early, far before school, and even if present, may or may not survive contact with school.
Fantastic video. As an industry it seems like we tend not to focus on the ethical implications of our work as much as we should. Zuck's response to the speaker (if true) is reprehensible.
Marching in the streets sends a much stronger message per person than does signing an online petition.
"Investment" is often used in senses where the return being sought is a social good and not a financial return to the investors. This could be viewed as either a metaphor for financial investment or a literal investment in utilitarian terms for which financial terms are, after all, only a convenient proxy.
I was unaware, but went and checked to see if it was enabled already. It was. So it doesn't work.
Just to note, though, that you can book tickets with Trainline, which you can't with traintimes.org.uk, it does have limits :) However, Trainline charge a booking fee – https://ehelp.thetrainline.com/app/answers/popup_detail/a_id... – and so I would suggest using any train operating company site (they all sell nearly all tickets), whichever one you find most agreeable.
"yes, the pragmatic consequences of not adapting are being left behind."

The pragmatic consequences of ignoring the people who are "left behind" are guillotines and scaffolds.

"the only fair system is one where you make your own way."

Once again: "fair" doesn't enter into it.
Great to hear. Thanks for the support.
Related to this, I'll highly recommend Reveal[1], a macOS app which allows for (semi-)live view debugging of iOS apps. Reveal provides view hierarchy info, and renders it on (the mac's) screen in a highly inspectable way.

Specifically, both flat 2D and a really great 3D exploded renderings of the active views are available. This is really brilliant for acquiring a deeper understanding of many initially opaque aspects of iOS view construction.

Likewise, the inspectors let you tweak and adjust autolayout constraint values, frames, bounds, and other view settings live. All together, working with Reveal restores a refreshing amount of the ease of view debugging and iteration speed that I love about working with modern in-browser debugging.

[1] https://revealapp.com/
I have a terrible time with work because of distractions, but the noise pollution in a city doesn't bother me much at all. Loud motorcyclists are a pain, but it helps to live in places where there aren't too many of those (i.e. places with culture). Sirens are the main thing that you can't get away from, but those really aren't that common unless you live in a really dangerous place perhaps.

Even working in a cafe using WiFi is a nice experience for me. Cafes I've sat in don't have people yakking on their phones; I've never seen that as it seems to be quite forbidden by the unspoken social code of such places. There might be some phone beeps, but it's not that big a deal, and I don't have much trouble shutting it out.

The problem I see, and have personally, isn't noise in a city, it's noise in the workplace, because of the open-plan office. I could concentrate far better in a city park or a coffee shop than I can in those stupid open-plan offices, where I'm constantly overhearing (whether I want to or not) the conversations of coworkers, and constantly worrying about coworkers sneaking up behind me. Honestly, I would do far better having a remote-only job where I'm required to work in a coffee shop all day long than I do in open-plan offices.
> 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.

If you told me I had to make a video or a drawing, collaborative or otherwise, and I could only have an iPad or a laptop (and no special peripherals for either), and nothing else, I'd take the iPad without hesitation.

I might take it if you told me I had to make a song, too, depending on the laptops on offer (the alternative in schools is usually Chromebooks) and what sorts of instruments (if any) I might be permitted to use.
Very true. Some sounds are worse than others, depending on the degree to which their frequency distribution differs from that of the environment. Thus, construction noise (jackhammers and so on) is annoying, but you can get used to it. The warning beeps on reversing vehicles, on the other hand, drive me towards suicidal despair, and no, I am not exaggerating for effect. I have never seen any actual evidence that they reduce accidents; they seem like a good idea that was adopted to reduce liability without any evidence of actual effectiveness.

Other unnecessary but infuriating sources of noise pollution are car alarms that don't know when to quit, and leafblowers, which are not only extremely noisy due to the 2-stroke engine, they pollute heavily with fumes (very unhealthy for the operator) and typically just move dirt and debris off private property and into common areas, exploiting three externalities for a very small labor saving. I must confess that I fantasize about meeting the person who invented them and exacting a horrible revenge for the intense distress they cause me - again, I'm not exaggerating for comic effect. If someone starts one of those up within 30 feet of me it takes all my strength not to fall to my knees and start vomiting.

I liked living in cities when I was younger but these days I'm trying to figure out the logistics of living in a remote location like a forest or the Mojave desert, which is the only place I've ever felt truly relaxed. I worked there for a month (with a film crew) a few years ago and it was heaven.
> It would be more helpful to ditch the 'myth' that age-segregated classrooms are an improvement over the one-room school house. Modern schooling forces children to learn on the teacher's schedule.

I have two kids in a public school. The teachers thus far have been extremely child-focused to the extent possible while still adhering to the common-core standards. The school has a number of mixed grade classes, e.g K-1, 1-2, 2-3, and the mix changes each year based on the needs of the kids. So my experience does not support your generalization of modern schooling.

Nor does it support the ideas in Gatto's main thesis. Perhaps in the 90's his thesis was true, but these teachers are up to date on recent research and know how to build non-provisional self esteem, for example. They encourage the expression and self-management of emotions. Curricula are often built around a central unifying topic, for example unifying math, reading, and writing around a core event. Rote memorization plays a minimal role - often built in to the daily activities in a why that the students may not realize.

I have also observed, during my weekly parent-volunteer hours, that the teachers are highly specialized and well trained. There is so much more to it than just 'learning styles' and such. They truly excel at managing behaviors and emotions, and creating engaging and multi-subject curricula. Most students do not show up ready to learn on any given day - and getting through to them requires extreme patience and tremendous creativity. Perhaps Gatto had unengaged and indifferent teachers - it seems that these would 'dumb down' students. Fortunately this has not been my experience.
Think about potential drivers in rural areas. I can see this being a key feature that helps Lyft expand into areas with low population density and sparse ridership. Drivers don't want to turn on the app and wait all day -- they'd rather schedule that trip in advance.
Chromebook allows you to type papers etc.
Anytime someone from a company comes on here using buzzword nonsense, you know it's not going to end well. You're talking to the wrong group of people with that middle manager marketing speak.
I think if you sat down and added up the cost of all of your furniture, you'd be shocked at the total.
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The Human Fabric of the Facebook Pyramid
I attended two French Immersion schools in B.C. between 1988-1996 and this article doesn't line up at all with my (admittedly anecdotal) experience.

I'm not your typical French Immersion defender, I hated French Immersion as a kid. I attended hybrid schools where only maybe 1/4th of the school was French Immersion and the rest were English and it made me and my French classmates targets for bullying. The parents of the English students, for whatever reason, didn't want French Immersion in their schools and as such there was a lot of resentment passed down. It wasn't unusual for me to have to fight my way home, being outnumbered 3-to-1 by English students who didn't want French kids in their school. Maybe they thought it was elitist, but that couldn't be further from what I observed.

I was raised in a middle-to-lower class household, the only reason I was in French Immersion was my mother was a Quebecois transplant and didn't want me to loose touch with the French-Canadian side of my family. Most of my French classmates were also on the lower end of the income spectrum, with only a few exceptions.

I never saw it as an economic issue. If anything, the biggest differentiator between the English and French kids was the involvement of their parents in their school activities. The Parent-Teacher events by the French Immersion parents were typically packed, whereas the English PT events were sparsely attended, regardless of income levels. It just seemed like the French Immersion parents took a more engaged approach to their children's education and participation in French Immersion was more correlation than causation.

I have no doubt that there are highly sought after public schools with waiting lists and such. But if anyone thinks there's some special treatment for the French Immersion students in Western Canada, then they clearly have only looked into it on the most superficial levels or have an anti-French bias. The special treatment is you have to do every class in French (except English class) and you get beat up for the privilege.

I guess parents who care about their children's education are elitist. How dare they.
I posted it to the Access forum there.

Thanks for the map, it is now clear to me that they will not get to many of the hills of the city for quite some time.
If a nuclear bomb explodes nearby, never get in a car
>Suppose we discovered a 10,000 year old archaeological site with that message. Do you honestly think we would be like, "ok, I guess we won't go digging around to see what this ancient civilization found repulsive and worthy of such hatred?"

If the message is simply: "There is something dangerous here", we'd probably ignore it. If the message is "There is waste from the fission of uranium buried here. It consists primarily of the isotopes I-129, Cs-135, ... Here is how the waste is stored and laid out ...", we'd be much more inclined to listen. That's what the original document proposes as well, that there should be a hierarchy of messages from "There's something dangerous buried here" to detailed descriptions of the nature and composition of the waste.
The point of physical petitions is they're hard. Showing a politician a few thousand names, with verified voter-registration statuses, who wrote out their addresses, and maybe copied a single sentence expressing their support for your cause, is much stronger than a million people who clicked an Internet button. The former can be organized to the politicians benefit (or against him, to his detriment). The latter probably can't.
This is the kind of "unschooling" it's talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling
Interesting! I just assumed.
> On the flip side, it's entirely possible to encourage a child to value learning. But that's something that tends to happen early, far before school...

A good teacher can do it, at least for some children. Teachers that good are rare, though.
Having worked at an MMO dev, I think this talk's praises and criticisms are all super on point. The social stereotypes of tech are I think even more pronounced in the games industry, and it would be super if everyone were this conscientious and their companies empowered all employees to have a voice about this kind of thing.

The pitfalls can so easily slip through into emerging social media forms. Making aware the lessons learned from the pioneering days of social videogames is definitely not an easy thing to do simply due to the elitism and proprietary nature prevalent in the games industry.
There is no direct replacement, because there are different libraries tackling different aspects of what you may need: high performance computations, data munging, distribution, probability stuff, ML, deep learning etc. Most are on github, some have websites and lists/communities. Google is your friend there. Most of them are still in heavy development, but other than cutting edginess, they do their things much better than incanter would do it (but I never found Incanter useful for beyond helloworld-ish programs even in its glory days so that's not a particularly high bar).
"I'm the technical expert wherever I work..."

Therefore my opinions are correct and yours, to the extent that they differ, are wrong.
Good question. Kanban isn't something I've particularly experienced, but I'd be willing to believe that a simple Kanban board might be a useful level of coordination for some people. Although my inclination is to say that if you need a mechanism to track which stuff is being worked on, you might have either too many people, or excessively fine-grained tasks.
Building "a community" is one thing. You don't need a product to build one community. You really just need passion, credibility, and perseverance -- and some combination of a blog, email list, and facebook/slack group as the tool.

Building a bunch of communities (aka facilitating community) is a different beast entirely, and seldom takes off very quickly at all. The best example of facilitating community is Meetup.com.

I've been working on a facilitation of community model called Horizon (http://www.horizonapp.co) which is best thought of as airbnb/couchsurfing with friends, friends of friends, and communities. So, privately, rather than publicly with strangers.

You can either facilitate existing community, or build a community. Trying to do both is a recipe for disaster imho.
Except that good school districts usually are better funded because they're paid for with property taxes.
Ghost trades
Does anyone care to actually get ownership of securities when executing a trade?

My understanding is that when you 'invest' in the stock market (long term play, to minimise risk, counteract inflation, etc.), you really do care to get ownership of the actual security you paid for. However, when you 'trade' on the stock market, expecting to sell off the security soon after buying it (likely within the same day), you do not really care to own it as such and that the 'security' might as well be just an entry in a database which grants you the right to 'sell' it again sometime in the future (hopefully getting back more that you initially paid for it).
I wonder if that is part of the reason why Transactional NTFS is being deprecated. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh8...

I've heard that NTFS has been pretty much in maintenance mode for a while.
I have no current need for it, but I'd be really interested to read a step-by-step guide on setting up an untraceable server using cryptocurrency, starting from cash. As others have pointed out, the hole in these instructions is that you have to trust Digital Ocean.
I remember reading that, there was a bit of hype then around Domain Driven Design, domain modelling, and domain specific languages (DSLs). I had the impression Intentional was working on an uber DSL IDE or something. This sounds like they pivoted over to some sort of semantic web[1] scraper thing.

We'll probably see SSIS and Excel integration soon...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
Worlds better. Not an exploitative wannabe-monopoly. Their service is way more reliable. And if something goes wrong, when you call tech support you get a smart person who knows things and has power to fix problems.
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Playing go cooperatively is very different from chess or most other turn-based tactical games in that combinatorics make the gamespace astronomically large. Most pro players understand what impact this has on gameplay and how to adapt their risk management strategies to the game. Way back in the day, popular man v cpu strategies took into account the limitations of monte carlo simulations and would intentionally make moves that change the game state as much as possible to exploit how hard the computer would need to work in order to begin finding optimal moves.

I think alpha go has advanced to the point where its unlikely human players can reliably defeat it, but I think there are still opportunities for better algorithmic players to defeat it.

Anyways, certain moves can cut off game states by the quadrillions, so it's often pretty intuitive what an optimal response to a move is, given certain context of the board and sometimes the player. In that respect, I'm curious how pro level go is going to change after these alpha go games are studied, because it has a very peculiar, decidedly calculatorish style of play, but it's obviously very effective regardless. Go has prospered for so long because there's so much room to express yourself in a move, pro players really play with their whole soul, but computers are just taking advantage of the pure mathematical angles of the game

It's fascinating stuff. I really want to see the alpha go team write a starcraft ai or something like that.
I can learn dancing by observing other dancers or I can learn dancing by someone telling me the steps. Some people prefer the first approach, some the second. There is no single way to learn dancing.
Ask HN: Breaking the language barrier
Not so long ago I've read an article about Facebook
"Brain-Typing" team (https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/facebook-brain-interface/).
This made me think, could we use this kind of technology in the futur to think in our native language and with tools like google translate, having "synthetic thought" telling us how to say it in a foreign language.
To make it more clearer the idea would be to reproduce the comportement of our brain showing us the right word to say when we are talking to someone.
One problem would remain is how to prononce it, that would require training I guess... but still no need to learn the language.
Could this be possible ? I wonder...
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It has a real keyboard, and far more collaborative tools.
With referral link?
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Here's a decent version, which works with Google Translate:

https://coollib.com/b/379170