skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Probably the most
dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it
enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract
arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's
going on right in front of me. Paying attention to what's going on inside
me. As I'm sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert
and attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue
inside your own head. Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come
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gradually to understand that the liberal-arts cliché about “teaching you how
to think” is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea:
“Learning how to think” really means learning how to exercise some control
over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough
to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct
meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of
choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about
“the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many
clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great
and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who
commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head.
And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before
they pull the trigger. And I submit that this is what the real, no-bull- value
of your liberal-arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep from
going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead,
unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default-setting of
being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out."

David Foster Wallace: This is Water
http://www.metastatic.org/text/This%20is%20Water.pdf
Why my son will never get a driver's license
If only the world was like this. I wish it were.

Sadly you need at least $5k/yr to be able to participate in your higher learning and knowledge, and this excludes a majority of people from broken backgrounds.
I don't know how to convey to you any more that this is a hypothetical rather than a real thing worth considering as much as you are doing.

Like your entire argument is "the S&P is pushed forward by people who go to college." Not to be rude, but that has no relevance whatsoever to the article. The article could have said to invest in real estate or god forbid bitcoin. The specifics don't matter.

Again not to be rude but I often feel like people on here have this disease that doesn't allow them to generalize from specifics. ;-)
I've been involved in two diligence exercises (on the buy side), where not having IP assignment was an issue for the selling company.

I wasn't close enough on the selling side to figure out what concessions they needed to make to make the problem go away, but it absolutely can and does hold up acquisitions.
Didn't they change it besides?
I wonder if this could be marketed as a 3rd-party service? Plenty of companies pay for privacy certifications that are not legally required - presumably because there is some amount of customer demand.

I could imagine incredible demand for a service like you propose, if people knew that they could get this kind of information.
Sad to see this downvoted, you make valid points about the importance of bitmapped display being a boon to microcomputers vs character or block oriented systems like minis and mainframes.

The reality of modern times is more nuanced and I don't fully agree with you (for instance there has been movement in i.e. SCO UNIX in the late '80s, now fb/drm based terminals for linux/bsd but it is pretty slow going because most people embrace two distinct modalities with the terminal being a lowest common denominator and everything else being graphics (or even WWW). So in effect, most people use *nix as a personal minicomputer or distributed minicomputers, and the text interface is a lower level thing while they pump out X11 or Wayland or WWW for "modern" experience. In this role, tmux is about the ideal session manager I can imagine.. but that may be more of an "unknown unknown" than me knowing it is ideal.
Kristina's Birthday Party ( Official Dance Video )
Ha, that's a great SV hit piece title. Will look into
Netflix Leaving Battle for Net Neutrality Shows Why We Need It
It's literally word for word the title of the linked article, which makes it a reasonable choice for a title, no?
I can't say I agree, at least I would need some convincing that people in the US in the 1700s believed in freedom and freedom of development more so than people in the US now. The US didn't become a super power until after WWII.
In hindsight much of Wallace's work seems like a plea for help. The paragraph you quoted might've been how he wishes he could've ended up.
Meh, I'd rather arbitrate my own filters, thanks. Will continue not using Chrome :)
"unless you're Facebook (traffic wise) you might never worry about that"

Facebook hasn't spent a lot of time worrying about their choice of PHP either. Facebook's primary language is Hack, a mostly compatible derivative of PHP. Prior to Hack (~2014) Facebook used traditional PHP, which they reimplemented a couple times for performance reasons. It seems that Facebook has spent its time worrying about how NOT to leave PHP.

Makes one wonder about the value of this daily new programming language era we're in at the moment.
Everyone in the auto+tech industry "Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves".

"Wants to" doesn't win pennants.
I gave a pretty detailed response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14026051

- Django may be "batteries included", but definitely not monolithic. It's your choice how you want to implement views. Nothing's tying you down to using a DetailView, but by conforming to them, you make your code more readable and consistent.

You can also pick your own template system, like Jinja2, but django templates are still fast, intuitive, and powerful. You don't have to pull in every contrib module and CBV. You don't have to use django.forms, but they save a lot of time with form validation. You don't have to use ModelForm (ORM-backed forms), but it gives you the ability to get database-backed form behavior with little work. They're also designed to be customizable for specialized scenarios.

Django is designed from the ground up to let you override and expand. django.forms build upon the "field" API (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/forms/fields/), which represents the data sent back and forth. And widgets, the HTML representation (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/forms/widgets/). You can use django, and build your own fields and widgets to use with forms.

You don't have to load every template tag and filter library. It's configurable on a per-template (per-file) basis. You don't have to use the auth system, but if you do, you can still use a custom User model and backend (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/auth/customizi...).

But you're going to have to conform to some sensible conventions (such as a settings modules, urls.py, request contexts). In most situations, you'll pull in stuff from django.contrib, like django.contrib.auth, and occasionally you'll write your own custom replacements.

And you'll end up using the ORM.

- While it's not SQLAlchemy, Django's ORM is capable. It may not have as many bells and whistles, but Django ORM is not "weaker" in any sense. It's been used in production for 10+ years and works across SQL dialects. In a pinch, one-off custom queries have.raw(), and I could still run those safely thanks to params (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/db/sql/#passin...). Also, the migration system is nice.

- While development settings can be slow when you're using asset managers (like django-compressor), Django can scale. Of course if you're rebuilding SASS every refresh and not using cache, you're going to have 500ms to 1 second page loads that can be cringey if you're hauling in bootstrap. But in practice, you're going to be compressing those files in production and using caching settings.

- Testing can be fast. My favorite tool is RequestFactory (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/testing/advanc...). I could run about 100+ tests in about 300ms. So every time I saved, I checked the permissions/integrity of all my views, including ones which used the ORM.
I'm pretty sure the second part of the blog is tongue-in-cheek.
Hands down the best book to give an intro into my field: "How to win friends & influence people" by Dale Carnegie.

(I am a startup CEO, w/ technical background. Learnt a LOT from this book. Would probably not be in the same job if I hadn't read this)

Other good books that will give an intro into tech startup management for laypeople:

-Zero to One (Peter Thiel)

-The hard thing about Hard things (Ben Horowitz)
>Terrorism is the current justification for military operations abroad.

It seems to me more and more that people are living in some kind of lala land today.

They seem to believe that military action against some group of people will not result in some kind of recoil. Especially when part of the group they are engaging military action against is living among them or has free access to enter the country.

I think that this is pretty disconnected thinking.

Asking intelligence agency to do better job feels is kind of ridiculous. They just have to follow too many people to be 100% effective.
What Most Billion-Dollar Startups Have in Common
Good response. Thanks
With the number of people that have purchased Beats alone, I'd say that your claims are wildly inaccurate.
Klik & Play had a curious mix of questionnaire and spread sheet programming when making games. I pushed it as far as a 14 year old could. I think the density of information and need to control abstractions are where visual tools break down.
this is fair, but you do have to be careful because as you may or may not know, many parts of the world are literal war zones. So "a few" can become "an explosion in London killing 10-30 people, occurring about once a year". Or once a month. Or twice a day.

Obviously you do agree that at some point there is a line to draw. so the argument for finding the solution to this early on is not without merit.

"a stitch in time saves nine." Maybe two pamphlets sent twice a year to every address in the UK, describing why civilization and a free society is great and explaining why it means not blowing people or yourself up, would solve these people. If that costs £70 million per year but cuts terrorism down by 85%, how many people need to die before you would say, hey that's worth doing: 100 people a year? 500? 1,000? 5,000? 10,000? At that point it costs taxpayers around £7,000 per victim and since fatal victims of terrorism stop paying taxes at that point it is free.

I Googled how many people died from Terrorism in the UK. This article from literally yesterday says....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/many-people-killed-terrori...

Well, that article says:

- 13 people died because of terrorism in the UK between 2010 and 2015.

So obviously we are very far from that metric. Actually this kind of supports your assertion.

It doesn't mean nothing needs to be done but your point is a lot stronger than I thought! Thanks for the response.
In the sense that you have microcode presenting a high-level instruction set that internally is executed as a low-level instruction set, yes. (There are clearly implementation differences, so if you'd pedantically want to find a distinction there are plenty.)
Ask HN: How can I learn human psychology?
I want to understand how humans think. Mostly to help me make software products more understandable to more people (usability and UX), also to fathom solutions to problems like climate change (which I think are now primarily psychological problems), and also to understand my own psychology to better harness my potential.

I have no background in psychology. I am a software engineer and team leader in a successful 50-person software company. I have been interested in how other people think only for a few years. "How to win friends and influence people" was very influential for me.

After thirty-something years I think I understand my own psychology pretty well. At least, I no longer find it deeply interesting. I am acutely aware that I am just one example of humans, and I am not like others; If you could measure individual's psychologies in a single dimension, I think my own psychology would be just outside the standard deviation.

I tried reading about Freud's id, ego and super-ego on Wikipedia, but quickly realised I had thrown myself in the deep end.

Where is a good place for me to start learning about human psychology?
The Cold War taught us that all that really matters is when the other side thinks you'll use nuclear weapons.
Decryption of Messages from Extraterrestrial Intelligence Using Social Media
Does anyone have the copy/paste working properly 100 %? I am unable to find a solution of copy/paste setup that allows seamless integration with local clipboard.

I am able to have tmux setup and working in OSX locally using reattach to user-namespace. However, I am struggling with a setup that works on remote machine. What do you do when you want to copy and paste between remote and local machine in tmux?
It's awfully convenient for a society to have a populace with a shared set of cultural norms.
Or PKD's warning about our losing the ability to build things directly in "Pay for the Printer".

http://sickmyduck.narod.ru/pkd041-0.html
Project Euler has good problems, but they are heavy on the math and that does require some domain knowledge.

I'd be more happy with a book that has 50 fairly simple apps to build in a simple language like Python where the apps aren't a whole lot longer than tic-tac-toe (~1/2 page).
like what European people did, let's warmly welcome them into our civilized world.
I wonder if these new regulations would override city level ones. I'm thinking about Dallas in particular that has quickly latched onto the background check stuff as a way to fleece everybody that they can and to write expensive ($600!) tickets to Uber/Lyft drivers they catch not participating in their scam. Only way to avoid it is to not pick up anybody in the City of Dallas.
I think the key phrase is "on average". If everyone invested in index funds instead researching and investing in individual companies, there would be no market to index. Likewise if everyone did the "average" thing with college - perhaps skipping it and banking the funds (in an index fund), there would be no higher education, and no new companies to bring to market.

The only thing worse than anecdotes when making a decision is averages.
https://cvan.io/flexboxin5/ also help generate css
I had not read that Graham post before. Interesting ..

Keep in mind the term Public Relations was though to have been coined by Edward Berneys. He's said on camera that the US Government realized propaganda worked well during WW2, but propaganda had become a bad word. So he created the US Department of Public Relations. It's literally a weasel word for propaganda.
Why is pictionary a fun game to play? Because drawing pictures to express ideas is harder than using a language :)
True; but visual programming means you need more 2D space (screen) to see the same amount of logic. Maybe with bigger screens it could work better?
You're not excluded, you just have to pay because you didn't prove you were responsible. I don't see how that is a problem.

I don't want to pay for the idiots in my classes who would show up late, cheat off others, and obviously not care during highschool. They don't deserve to take my money and waste it on a very expensive education.
Precious Plastic: Open Source Plastic Recycling Machines
Which is;
> "The problem with visual programming is that you can’t have more than 50 visual primitives on the screen at the same time."
Why do you think they are more likely to be rear-ended than any other car on the road?

One thing that is likely is that if minor repairs cost an arm and a leg, Tesla owners will file claims for things that owners of other cars wouldn't file claims for because filing a claim raises your premiums. Probability of filing a claim !== probability of having an accident, but it is what determines how expensive the car is to insure.
Ahead of iOS 11, 32-bit applications stop appearing in App Store search results
The right way to think about these kind of things is in terms of responsiveness. For example, when I think of any request intiated by a user, there is a ~200ms budget of time to service that request. If you can shave off a couple hundred micro seconds, those can be spent on returning a better answer.

Everyone has a piece to contribute to servicing user requests, and every should be mindful how much of the budget they consume. Using select (or epoll) more efficiently makes everyone elses job easier. It is important for everyone in the pipeline to think this way, you included. The user experience depends on it.
Isn't it possible to create ultra low-cost, bootcamp-style, world-class degree programs in STEM fields?

Self-study on your own an outline provided, then take a highly competitive entrance exam to get into the bootcamp. Finish and get your world class degree.

It sounds like the type of non-profit I should invest in if I were a 1%'er.
Your #3 isn't completely accurate. Nuclear attack submarines have a primary tactical role in that they're expected to destroy enemy ships and submarines with torpedoes. In peacetime they spend a lot of time shadowing vessels belonging to other countries collecting emissions and position data.

And the land attack role isn't really about deterrence - that's what the boomers are for.

Though I agree if you want to operate subs in far-flung seas you pretty much have to go with nuclear propulsion. Diesel subs (of which AIP are just the latest iteration) just don't have the legs. They're also not magical, as some people seem to think. You can detect them.
"Safer" isn't the same as "cheaper to insure". This is the major flaw in their PR response.
Actually the normal care more about the safety than what you said privacy. You can choose what you called freedom and privacy, but I also have the right to choose safety. Why you would say your choice is prior than my choice?
you win the prize for asking the right question. the answers are like with AI, where once it's done in a certain domain, then that's not AI anymore. that is, with visual programming, once it's done in a particular domain, people don't think it's programming anymore.

the big examples i have in mind are:
* spreadsheets -- very visual, everything's in a grid. the relationships are spatial.
* electronic music -- people lay out their various effects in a flowchart format and chain them from one to another
* video games -- consider a game like RimWorld. you're clicking on all kinds of things and specifying what you want done with them. the behavior of the actors in the environment are modified by your specifications.

So, it's all in various optimized subdomains. As it should be!
The Color Sphere
china has a faster underwater missile than any other country. seems pretty safe to assume china is at least as powerful as any other country. to be honest tho and to not beat around the bush china seems like the superior country to america. or any country on earth for that matter. stupid ass america cant even stop their TOP SECRET information from being stolen from a country that is THOURSANDS of miles away and separated by an OCEAN. pathetic. they can't even natively read our language or ANY language that uses romanized letters. seriously what the fucking fuck.
Passively consider if you know someone who might benefit from also meeting this person, given what they say. If there is mutual benefit, make an introduction. It's a 3-way win.
For me at least, graphical programming tended to crank code style issues up to 11. If you think linear text code formatting is bad, laying out a flow graph on the screen is worse. If you think naming a function is bad, try drawing an icon to represent that function. (Or each function in a library of ten or twenty related functions... )

Graphical programming also walks away from a huge body of work dedicated to managing, searching, and manipulating text. As good as the graphical tools can be, there's nothing like all the work that's gone into text editors, diff tools, query languages, etc. These are all things that are central parts of my programming workflow, and they are all missing or considerably weaker in a graphical language. (This is not to mention the fact that graphical programming gives up two hands and ten fingers as input devices in favor of one hand pointing and clicking with a mouse.)

I think as appealing as the idea is, whatever benefits there are don't outweigh the considerable costs.
Cold War Simulator
Afghanistan begs to differ :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80...
You're missing an array language like APL, J, or K.
Equality of outcome as a goal is terrible because it's the enemy of equality of opportunity. "Everybody is denied their agency" would be equal, perhaps, but isn't part of any feminist vision I choose to align myself with.
"not having IP assignment"

Was this specifically about a clause in an employees contract that allowed for side projects?

Or was it, say, about a software license purchased from another company? (which probably does happen, yes)
Or coal plants or cow farms, I see your point.
Ask HN: Is it possible to sign up for a Google account without Gmail and phone?
Normally you can sign up for a Google account using your own (non-Gmail email address) here:

https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail?hl=en

But of late, the reCAPTCHA has been replaced with a phone number requirement.

Is there no way to remain anonymous with Google now?
can you expand on the "anything"? I'm having doubts that I can negotiate the price of eg. a TV bought in a hypermarket (Walmart, to give a US example) ?
I am all right with that, as I don't think my privacy is sensitive to the agent, my email just normal email, no terrorism, no child porn, no drug etc, why I would care they check it or not. Apple, Google, Microsoft already scan all your online activities, why would they better than the government? You guys always trying to mix the privacy and security. for the iPhone case, in case the police need to unlock the iPhone to save hundreds of people's life, are you guys still insist that Apple shouldn't unlock the iPhone for the cops?
> Why do you need a block chain for a decentralized social network?

to trick moronic VCs out of their money.

you're all idiots.
Decoupling CMS frameworks with REST
I think it's more the atmosphere than the food.

I like Buffalo Wild Wings food (well, the wings at least), but everytime I go there it's this gymnasium-sized open restaurant with awful music playing... There's a bar, but it's not what I want a bar to be. There are booths, but they offer no privacy.

It's just a place to get wings, which is fine, but for what I spend going to bdubs I can go to any number of other places with equally good or better food, which also have a better atmosphere.
Seriously, I would go to Applebee's if they had a better selection of gluten free options. My wife has celiac and the entire family doesn't go there to eat if they can't properly serve her.

Right now, they bring out some giant chart and you have to decipher it while cross referencing the menu. It takes longer, lowers your confidence that they know what they are doing and is embarrassing for the person having to dig through it all. Somebody at Applebee's needs to take a trip to Outback and ask for a gluten free menu.

Bottom line: if somebody in the group will have to worry about their meal, the restaurant is off the list.