skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are hybrid languages, like Python... Visual whitespace denotes blocks while visual symbols like "if", "for", and "def" denote the meaning of those blocks.

(and sane programmers use visual layout to convey structure in every language)
Free higher education and universal healthcare seems like reasonable criteria for "modern". Throw in use of the metric system for good measure(s).
> "In a front wheel drive car, you understeer, crash into a tree and you die. In a rear-wheel drive car, you oversteer, spin around, crash into a tree and you die. In the rear-wheel drive car, you don't see the tree that kills you."

But if what you say is true, Mercedes, BMW, Audi etc. should be in the same boat, and TFA indicates they're not.
I think the security an inability to double spend is pretty important too. The ledger is the proof but not the means.
Also , outsystems and bubble.is, oracle Apex
Where do you see any evidence of the author trying to alter Wikipedia to promote fringe science?

You list RationalWiki as the "other side of the story", yet did you note that article was written by the same editors he encountered on Wikipedia?

If you spend more time on the site, you will see that the case study involved intentional patience and only focused on non controversial biographical information.

You appear to suggest that the context of the biographies the author was editing on means he was promoting or editing false or misleading information, and therefore perhaps deserved the treatment.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for educational video games
I find video games very dull - whether it is a shoot-em-up or car racing or whatever. I consider them a waste of time.

Are there any really good educational games? I'm aware of plenty of "brain training" games that are supposed to improve general problem solving skills, but I'm looking for something more targeted. I've a PhD in particle physics and I write code for a living (C++ and Python mainly), so I'm interested in something that would go way beyond mental arithmetic and word games.

Any ideas? Anyone else interested in games like this?
it is not blocked as a source, it is blocked site wide from sharing on talk pages of any editor.
Listen to yourself dude. Troll. Go to reddit
Almost forgot to respond to the UB part: you can use clang's UBSAN to help detect when undefined behavior occurs.

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html
I'm still liking Trello. I've got maybe a dozen boards, one for each project/idea. Can add team when needed. Filters and slack notice help me stay focused on the things that need attention
More info in here and its related links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PALM_processor

It appears to be based on the System/360 architecture.
You sound like a butthurt European who lives in a fantasy land where opportunity costs and taxes don't exist.

Call me in 20 years when the hordes of "migrants" steal all your wealth through these "free" programs. Then maybe you'll understand just how expensive "free" can be.
I agree completely, I have no idea why you're being down-voted. I got a 4-year bachelor's degree in CSE at my community college (through a partnership with a bigger name school). I did all 4 years at the local college, and it would have cost me less then 30k for the entire program. However with scholarships (Which over half of my class receives) I graduated without any debt at all.

There are options for cheap schooling out there.
Thanks for advocating the other side. I've played and enjoyed Splendor, but never saw it as a resource-management eurogame. As far as Speicherstadt, I'll have to try it. My opinion is definitely open to revision.
Thanks - I was certain that the URL and the Title had been messed up - and spent a fruitless 5 or so minutes trying to find the actual article before giving up and coming to the comments. The article has nothing to do with a country.
So, how do these people learn the skills to build houses, physics and math skills that are required to 'invent', basic electrical and computer science skills to know how to program and so on?
If the state gave each and every civilian a colonoscopy every year, we could prevent deaths by noticing medical conditions earlier. Probably more than terrorists kill currently. But it's a complete non-starter because it infringes on so many human rights like self-ownership. Same goes with our private conversations. This line must never be crossed.
Opcodes are fine, no one is saying everything has to be expressed as an operator. I'd like to see more of a C/C++ intrinsics syntax, but with total control over the order of instructions and register allocation. Basically same power as assembly, syntax close to intrinsics, but you tell it which registers to use, and there's one instruction per line, and they're executed exactly as you write them, with no creativity on the part of the compiler.
The root of the problem as I have mentioned previously is that the propaganda is actually effective. And until you identify the reasons why this is the case, and directly start addressing those reasons, whatever actions you take aren't going to make much of a difference.

Banning propaganda from "vocal jihadis" won't make their words any less appealing. And no matter how good your technical controls, it won't prevent a motivated person from finding such material online, one way or another.

And while there are many reasons why the jihadi message is so effective, I happen to believe that it is sustained not because the ideas are being widely and indiscriminately dissiminated, but rather because the ideas are not being exposed and challenged.

It is bizarre that there are people committing mass murder, motivated by a concrete and well-documented set of beliefs, which nobody is criticizing let alone even willing to discuss in public. Doesn't that sound to you like "they are afraid of us"? I'm sure that's how it looks like to a jihadi recruit.
This goes back to the original file where it read "buried alive in email" in 1996 [1]. It changed to "buried alive in diapers" [2] from 97-99 before this last revision [3].

1: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v1.3/patch-html/patch-1.3.68/linux_MAINTAINERS.html

2: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.1/patch-html/patch-2.1.22/linux_MAINTAINERS.html

3: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.2/patch-html/patch-2.2.4/linux_MAINTAINERS.html
Sure, WikiTribune uses a soft wiki model in a way that insures reliable reporting. This requires a responsible paid staff while still keeping the collaboration of the outside community in tact.
25% of the people in the U.S. believe in classism, and that everything is a product subject to the free market, including education. Sometimes (hand wave) it's acceptable to have very basic public versions that are free for primary and secondary education but beyond that it's socialism (and therefore evil).

25% want to get everyone at the same horse stall starting gate, and then compete. Getting to the same starting gate involves some socialism, but it's supposed to neutralize things like race, class, gender, geography. And then you compete.

Those two groups are fighting which is why the political situation is why it's so acrimonious right now.

And a 3rd group, 50%, maybe give a crap but they hate politics and don't get involved.

Also, most of education happens at a state and local level, where political participation is pretty dreadful so you get even more extremes, and pretty much right now overwhelmingly counties in the U.S. are red/Republican states and they think already there's too much money spend on public schools, and more public money should go to private schools, i.e. make things competitive.

(Hilariously, Republicans think in health care, an option to buy into Medicare to make things more competitive is evil, probably because it's evil whenever the government does something good.)
I'm starting to think Aquadrop is a Russian astroturf account.
Maybe car licenses should have type ratings like airplane licenses -- to drive/insure a specific class of vehicle,
one ought to have training in that type of vehicle with an instructor. One can't have a commercial pilot license and start flying turbine aircraft without being checked out/endorsed for the specific aircraft type.

Type endorsements make sense to me: SUVs over a certain weight, vans, high performance cars -- they all have vastly different drive characteristics and thus a "normal" driver experienced with a Ford Focus can't necessary be guaranteed to have the same competence with a high performance car just because they have a driver's license.

Perhaps insurance companies could intoduce a voluntary type rating system to provide discounts for those "checked out" in specific vehicle types. It would make the roads safer and insurance cheaper.
> I think there is a problem when [naive -> people], go to college and ...

That's the problem. It's not a good system. Too many false positives.
I'd probably be guilty of that one myself. Energy can be converted from one form to another when/where needed, and wheeled vehicles can go wherever there's a road, but fixed rail is stuck in one place forever. A rant for a different thread...
I just play pandemic by myself :)

It's a fantastic solitaire game.
> But the hypothetical breaks down once you consider it as a proposal,

...again, that's why you don't do that with hypotheticals intended to be social commentary.

The article is saying "wow, college is sure overpriced for the amount of money you invest."
Now imagine you're in your 20s and were laid off 6 months ago. You have no savings, no partner, and no in-demand skills. You bought a console and some games last year when you still had a job. $10 will pay for a month of online play, bus fare and a day pass at the pool, or enough gas for two trips to the nearest trailhead. You don't really enjoy playing video games all day, but it keeps your mind off your troubles, which is more than you can say for hiking.

I don't think your situation is typical even for people your own age. I suspect the biggest generational difference is TV vs. video games.
Wasn't that similar to those Transmeta processors that had most of their instruction set written in software? Seemed like a cool idea, but (as I recall) the Transmeta processors couldn't keep up speed-wise with the existing x86 CPU's.
From an earlier comment yesterday:;

Etherium is a panacea for anyone hoping to reduce contractional friction, and I believe we're at the tip of the tip of the iceberg if the tech and ether are here to stay.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, still concerns me. If/when BTC is makes its appearance in the every day lives of ordinary people, its anonymity value will have eroded significantly. Traditional currencies have not yet started to compete with BTC, but they can and they will if necessary. Try getting a mortgage, car loan, business loan with BTC as collateral as one example of where my concerns rest. Look at the grossly inverted price of BTC and gold prices (artificially assuming 1BTC = 1Oz).

Before BTC there was growing dissatisfaction with money center currencies that persists today. BTC 'took the edge off' for many in those circles and may have relieved pressure on gold prices.
I don't necessarily believe this, but I've read in economic revisionist circles that BTC would be means for certain central banks to redirect some demand and attention for precious metals away from their vaults and toward an asset class they, better than anyone, are capable of mining with their existing computing infrastructure. So, by invention or acquiescence, BTC serves money center interests, for now, but not indefinitely.

BTC remains a highly speculative and risky asset/network in my mind.
I just wanted to second Machi Koro as a phenomenal game for kids - you essentially just roll dice and buy things. But like a lot of these games there can be a surprising amount of strategy, especially with the expansions.
Zero potential in reality? Tell us then, why did Russia build a huge force of Backfire bombers designed to carry out exactly the attack I described?
While the college coach is often highly paid, keep in mind that the football program usually brings in a boatload of money, and that money goes on to subsidize other NCAA sports and in many cases even returns money back to the university.

I'm not a fan of the sports-fetish of college sports, but I do want to make a balanced point for others to consider.
This may be true in the situation you're looking at. In neither of the community colleges that I have been to has this been the case. We've been in real laboratory sciences with skilled instructors and successful students have gone on to do well in university.

I think, though, the point is worth mentioning: not all community colleges are as good as the ones I've been to. Students would be well advised to consider the options and opportunities prior to matriculation (especially in light of an order of magnitude difference between even state university and community colleges).
And I'd add that the few times I've made relatively minor claims on both my home and auto insurance (handled by the same company), it's been pretty much completely painless. It's just not worth it for me to go to a bargain basement insurer to save maybe a few hundred bucks a year.
As a counter point, I attended a community college program that partners with a larger school to provide a CSE degree at my local community college. When we have combined classes (Which are taught via video) the students on the community college side on average score a letter grade higher. With that, when students on the main campus join us for some classes (commonly during the summer) they frequently have a hard time due to not learning everything we did in previous classes.

That's not to say you're wrong, but you can't judge every community college program the same. Some of them aren't great (Especially if it's involving online labs, like you pointed out), but some are extremely good.
Free higher education is usually seen as the biggest helper of social mobility.

In the US there is one more fundamental issue that needs to be addressed: the use of local school funding in school districts. Had schools been properly funded with more funds going to schools that need more resources (I.e schools where parents don't have higher education get more money per student than schools where they do) then having grades/tests as a qualification for free can be done without discriminating.
> I think there is a problem when naive, often blue collar people, go to college...
Code.org

I routinely hire from outside the four year degree path. I wish these entry level folks knew:

- Linux CLI fundamentals
- Some SysAdmin
- Arrays and Collections and Loops
- Data Parsing (scanf, regex)
- SQL basics
- HTML+CSS basics
The solution is a drivers license to use the internet. No more anonymity. Can't create backdoors(that'd be like removing the steering wheels from cars), but the internet is a public space like our highways. You can cause a lot of damage there, so you should have a license or passport.

Controlling speech or disabling crypto is very Orwellian.

obfuscating crypto is trivial. God Kay must either be as dumb as Trump acts or think we are all stupid.
Why even permit people to have secrets of any kind? The real "problem" is not encryption, but people keeping secrets. Encryption is just one way of keeping a secret. With a law banning private secrets, they could throw anyone in jail for not answering a question.

If the government has a back door to read all your messages, they are saying they don't want you to have any secrets at all -- but electronic messages are the only ones they know how to pry open.
Org-mode inside Emacs (spacemacs). I was using OmniFocus few years ago, then I have switched to OmniOutliner as I have figured out that flexibility of form and not-seeing contexts/projects/etc I don't care when @work or @home works just better for me.
So I have split those two areas in my life into different files and outliner was a more fitting for the job than a dedicated GTD tool. Then I have switched my MacBook Pro for a touch-screen enabled windows tablet and Emacs with org-mode filled the role nicely.
You do not need a degree to be a software engineer.
I asked for the other side of the story. RationalWiki appears to fit that bill. I made no judgments on the merits of either side of the squabble. I trust the readers of HN are capable of forming their own judgements based on available evidence.
You're a better manager than any of the ones I had at Google. That said, your boss might laugh _you_ out of the room, bringing us back to square one. He/she doesn't cherish the idea of hiring a replacement for the duration, or scaling back what he/she promised to _his/her_ boss (whew, those gender pronouns make it a mouthful). It's one thing if you need to care for a sick relative or something, any tech company will make accommodations. But to "travel" so you could gestate your startup idea -- that's pretty much a GTFO right off the bat.
The nice thing about the protocol is that the client-side app can actually be replaced. All you need is something that will manage the private key(s) and properly respond to the authentication challenge through the protocol handler.

So the average user can stick with the default app, while anyone who wants more security can opt for a vault-based version. This is similar to the current state of affairs with passwords, where users can opt to use password managers.

The important thing is that sites make the shift to a challenge-based protocol. Once that's done, there are lots of different ways of implementing the client-side app, all with different trade-offs. For example, you could replace the master password with a fingerprint.
Incredible. With a city life like that you should be commended for taking the time out to extend clojure. Salute.
I have no inclination to donate back to the university I attended since I paid more than enough in tuition. Also, as an out of state student at the time, the tuition and fees I paid was used, in part, to subsidize in state student costs.
1. Try flowgrid.org

2. File an issue describing why it sucks

3. I'll fix it O:)

Ok, realistically, I guess I agree with the top comment
No. Their goal is simply to go back to the previous status quo. Which was when communication was capable of being monitored when there was a reasonable suspicion of a crime about to be committed.

Now I don't believe this makes any sense in this era (criminals will have crypto, ordinary people/dissidents/journalists etc will not) but I can very much appreciate where they are coming from. It's not a simple issue.
It helps to give non-computer people a non-computer analogy: This is equivalent to requiring the walls of the houses we live in and the clothing we wear to be made out of special material which is opaque to us but see-through to the police. This will keep us all safe! Anybody got a problem with that?
Yeah, I've done this as well. Texted someone my laptop password because the macOS beta I was using had a delayed auto-unlock bug and I thought it had failed.
> then why does everyone sketch a picture when trying to convey an idea?

Does everyone do that? I think I very rarely do. When I need to convey an idea on a whiteboard, it's still almost completely text, with a few extra symbols like directional arrows that I think are still effectively just symbolic written language.

Literally the only time I can remember sketching a picture to convey an idea is while playing Pictionary. The entire premise of that game is that it is much more difficult to get someone to say a specific word by drawing a picture than by simply writing down the word.
It is a great system for the professional class...

... so I would say the problem is "we need to educated blue collar people better so they take advantage of the opportunities to advancement offered by the educational system". That is very true. But, in general, blue collar people get fucked over in multiple ways and this is just one way.

That is very different than "college is a waste" (jesus, what an idiotic thing to even say out loud...)
A lot of academic research is no longer fundamental and is essentially r&D, note the big D. Funding sources such as the EU commission are mostly interested in funding what will have near term economic impact. So you've got entire research institutions who have nicely kitted out clean rooms and all kinds of cool toys doing just enough on each project to keep the funding coming in.

As a result negative results will piss off project coordinators so who want the next big thing they've been promised and research has just become complex assembly projects between collaborators where researchers repeat what they know works.
I'm absolutely not saying this is an easy problem. I also agree with your last point. I'm being idealistic, I know, but I'm cautious about accepting any proposed solution.

I definitely see the merit in comparing the US to Europe in terms of what has worked. Even as I am cautious, I value societies willing to experiment and progress forward with solutions to problems.

I'm not sure the US system is amenable to the same thing, but I'll bow out at that point and merely listen to what others have to say.

What I do suspect is that the landscape is changing with regards to what jobs need a degree and how easy knowledge is to obtain.
Isn't a double (n+1) ledger the definition of the inability to double spend (presuming Atomicity or reconcilability)?

That's a genuine question.
They do that when the idea is visual/geometrical or when they use an imaginative visual model to process it, which is one of the things we actually do with text. Text evolved specifically to assist with ideas images(glyphs) could not.
Supertasters among the dreaming spires (2017)
Your example are great but it seems theses VPL succeeded because the data manipulated was constant (sound OR texture OR 3D object) in a whole project
I just checked and on my laptop the app download takes about 5 seconds (timed manually) to process a new master password account.
Look up "blue card scheme". If you have a university degree, and you interview somewhere and get the job, and your salary will be over 1.5x average national gross salary (In Germany this calculates to around 39KEUR/year), you will get a residence permit, none of this "is there an EU citizen qualified for the same job" check.

As for the salary, I can only say a German computer science graduate being offered a real programming job would probably laugh at anything below 45K, and is looking at around 50K. After tax this comes to around 30K/year (don't quote me on this number), which will be enough to live if you're single, for more costs of living you can check numbeo.com
This whole discussion is very US-centric.

When looking beyond US borders it turns out you can have it both ways: Get a degree from a very good university without paying tuition fees (or at least not much).

For example in Germany international students can study basically for free. It's similar in other EU countries and the universities are typically much better than US state universities. I truly wonder why not more Americans are taking advantage of this.