skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't teach somebody to learn in a generic manner. However, you can teach even several subjects that will be useful everday that approach a range of ways to learn, building the foundation required for the person to "learn to learn" by him or herself.

This is what we are supposed to do.

This is not, however, what we do in school.

School is now doing :

- baby sitting

- killing creativity and autonomy

- blending all kids into on uniform bowl

- giving them examples on how to avoid admiting your are wrong, using fear, cheating, power abuse, bad food, fact distorsion, memorizing and forgetting...

- ranking kids against each others according to arbitrary yet not objective metrics

- teaching kids to pass, and fit a disfonctional system, at all cost, or be ashamed

I have been a student to 11 schools due to my father moving a lot for his work, from the worst in the hood to the best private ones. None of them prepared me for my life. Most of the kids that went in there came out without required basic skills, and yet passed. The most expensive ones are the less evil, so money is an issue.
What bothers me about this comment, and seems entirely consistent with my experience with doctors, is the apparent lack of recognition of the notion of unknown unknowns.

> However, to be clear, it is my responsibility ethically and legally to have the expertise to treat you and to apply that expertise in making an assessment and plan. If I find that I don't have the expertise that's necessary, I should be consulting with or referring you to another medical professional who does.

It may be your "ethical and legal responsibility", but how is a doctor that sees patients 8 hours a day supposed to keep up with new discoveries, and how is the perfectly reasonable scenario of not knowing you don't know something supposed to be resolved for the good of the patient?

> However, it is never ethical for me to rely on your medical judgment in formulating a plan.

Is it ethical to have an ego so large that you literally refuse to listen when your patient is trying to inform you of something that you apparently have no knowledge of (arrogantly interpreting this as the patient making a "medical judgement" and patting them on the head for your incorrect assumption of their intellectual arrogance)?

This is why I am of the opinion that the broad medical establishment needs to be reminded that they are not omniscient, through no fault of their own.
Ha, I'm not surprised. Walmart seem to have a tin ear for any culture not their own.

As a student I worked for ASDA, a UK supermarket chain, while it was bought by Walmart.

Management decreed we had to do a team power huddle at the start of each shift, like we were American Football players or something instead of bored teenagers on minimum wage.

It was excruciating. Everyone hated it, from management down. I think the policy lasted a week before everyone gave up in sheer embarrassment.
Facebook Messenger launches Discover as it takes on chatbots (again)
Also see http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/06/yudkowsky_on_my.... for a detailed explanation of how this particular topic tends to get people talking past each other.

(The tone of that explanation does come across as elitist, because it's intentionally exaggerating to demonstrate how people "hear" certain explanations as insensitive when they're not.)
What's the distinction you're drawing between having a drink at lunch and having an office happy hour? The latter certainly seems preferable if we're forced to choose since the workday is essentially over at that point.
To me, these stories are a) vital, and b) dis-heartening, and c) demonstrative of the fact that we need to continue to build better, open and secure, operating systems and tools for end users.

I think there is definitely something to be said for the fact that if the CIA is doing this, then criminals are too - since the fine line between what the CIA does and what a criminal does is simply, a sheet of paper with someones signature on it.

Most of all, however, I think its very important that we continue to reveal these secrets. For those of us not living under the CIA's nefarious shadow, it is good to see them get their secrets revealed.
Careful though, people on HN are not a good sample. They would have learned those with or without school.
Just an important point the guarantees cockroach provides and Google cloud spanner provide are slightly different. Cockroach provides serializability while Spanner provides linearizability.
I managed to learn how to code when I was that young all while learning everything else the state required. AND I did band / marching band / video production. What I think should be mandatory is instead of sticking kids right into algebra/calculus/etc make them take the "consumer math" class I opted for. It does everything you suggest in addition to how to pay taxes and save for retirement - you know stuff you actually need to know how to do.
I feel one of the real issues is incentivizing publicly traded companies to beat pressure from Wall street to keep cutting costs and workers be damned attitude. It might be worthwhile to experiment $30 per hour wages for all publicly listed and big companies, including temp workers.
Overall it is better for someone to work 4h at $30 instead of 8h at $15.
Dude your handle is pabloski

Come on comrade.
I'm more of an UBI fanboi, but it seems MW is working, at least here in Germany.

Turns out, most jobs that had wages below MW were still lucrative for the companies even when paying 8,84€/h
Medicine and vaccines are science, socialism is ideology.
This is clever! Also worth praising: This site is free, loads quickly, doesn't require a user account, and has an easy-to-understand privacy policy.
Alcoholism (abuse/misuse/problems) increases suicide rates. As does caffeine overconsumption, which makes me want to punch those "caffeinated as fuck" T-shirt wearing (but against cannabis or amphetamines) people in the face.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14637873

Looks like it was un-flagged? Don't know enough about the process around here. It was flagged for a long time though.
Why don't they just use the location APIs? :D
Because most people can still be productive without a nap, just marginally less productive. And in many cases time is money.

Unless your service interruption is lasting all day (in which case you have bigger problems), it's much better for the company to get the site back up in 10 minutes than to wait 30 minutes for you to finish your nap and then get it back up in 8 minutes. Especially if you're losing $10K in revenue (or more) for every minute of downtime.

Whereas the work you'll be doing once the service is back up can be done more efficiently or creatively or thoughtfully after a nap, but won't suffer from being pushed back half an hour.

Releases, well, that depends on your release process.
Presumably it relies on a boundary layer of cool uranium hexafluoride, and very low mixing of the gas.

Make the design large enough with a low enough pressure, and it sounds like you could make the heat flux manageable. The boundary layer will also protect the quartz from the atomic effects of the uranium ions - they will cool and recombine before reaching the quartz.

The hydrogen side will want much higher pressure (to be able to absorb enough UV, since a UV reflector sounds hard to cool)

Assuming the biggest transfer of energy in the hydrogen and uranium gasses will be convective, so making the quartz spin you could use the higher density of cool uranium gas to keep your quartz cool. The hydrogen side is flowing, so as long as you keep the flow laminar, one can use a cold boundary layer again.
There are emulators for the MIT, LMI and TI machines that can be used to get a feel for ZWEI or to generate screenshots.
>Would you write a similar sentence about say a medical researcher?

How about "Anti-abortion activist doctor releases study showing that abortion in unhealthy." Are you telling me you wouldn't place the study under extreme scrutiny? When someone shows their ideological bias, and it happens to be extreme (yes, socialism is extreme), and then they also do science in the same field, it is absolutely appropriate to make their biases known and subject them to extra scrutiny.

EDIT>> Just saw your note that you agree about raising awareness to biases. It sounds like we agree on that.
> I legitimately don't understand the odd obsession in the US with swearing.

It's largely classism. Some work environments shun people who swear to signal that they are part of a different social class that is more professional.
Wow, that's weird. I need the one hour break from my colleagues as with how our office is laid out it can get pretty busy and noisy and I can't listen to music all day.

Luckily where I work there's a small boating lake that I can walk around just across the road which is incredibly nice to walk around for half an hour every lunch time. It's also lucky that my colleagues all like to go alone for lunch too :D
Very confused wapo published this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/new-s...
Took another try for discussion to get started - find it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14641658.
I am amazed as well. At my office nobody drinks at work outside of special events, and when we go out to lunch nobody orders alcohol.
I see this same pattern over and over with talking to people who are leaving a company. There's almost always that "wake up" moment: one singular item which pierces the veil. But it's rarely ever just that one item that causes people to leave, and that one item would probably be tolerated if there weren't other reasons. And the set of those reasons for any two people leaving are not likely to be the same.

So, given that:

* Leaving is actually an accumulation of these items,

* Individuals will have their own distinct list of such items,

* Individuals will have differing tolerance levels for waking up...

Is there actually any actionable information here other than: "Don't make unpopular decisions?" I mean, sure, in hindsight, on this particular and possibly unusual scenario, a bunch of people woke up with a singular item which had minor impact to the bottom line. Easy to look back and say, "Maybe that was a silly decision."

But an employer will always have to make decisions, and some individual will probably find that decision distasteful and add it to their list, and maybe that's finally the item that wakes them up... At what point do you just factor that into cost of making decisions and move on?
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Very confused wapo published this
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/new-s...
How to Use Cassandra in Production
> because in most countries hate speech is a criminal offense.

Typically the standards are different from what seems to be called "hate speech" in the US. Though there are some odd laws around that should really just be removed.
Would it be possible to modify the sort such that it counts parts it identifies?
There's a pretty good blog post from CockroachDB that explains the tradeoffs for not having the same level of time synchronization as spanner.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo...

CockroachDB is, though, only in it's first "real" 1.0 release. You see the sort of bugs you would expect to see in their repo. That is, basically, it's not really suitable for anything important yet. They do seem to be making a lot of progress though.
Thanks to everyone here who supports this work. It really helps to be a member of EFF -- the fact that we're publicly supported by a wide range of concerned individuals makes a difference. Our membership is mentioned in every court submission we make.

As mentioned downthread, this week we're in the middle of our summer membership drive: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/summer-security-camp-r1 -- we have stickers, guides, and patches.

Also, if you, your family and friends or your organization are thinking about supporting EFF's work at a higher level, let's talk. I'm danny@eff.org; I work on EFF's international activities, but I'm also taking some time this year to work with people who are know our work, and are interested in increasing their support or spreading the word to their colleagues.
The value of some self control at work isn't puritanical. Replace "fuck you" with "nice ass" or "Have you met Jesus." You don't need to say it, people don't need to hear it, and it can make work more pleasant.
The benefits are that it is a employee perk that makes employees happier.

Sometime the people you work with are your friends. And sometimes people like to go out with their friends.

Companies that disallow alcohol will have a hardier time attracting employees, as that kind of uptight company doesn't sound like it would be pleasant to work at.
Did the authors of the report make this hypothesis?
> not good enough is just not good enough

This is our problem here. When the system fails, it has no way to react in a sane maner. If a kid, 3 years in a row, cannot aquire the skills he/she should, the system then will pass her/him automatically.

Because the current society is claiming being smart is unpopular, kids have no insensitive to apply themself to learning. The new generation of parents doesn't commit to make them to. And teachers are not allowed to. This leads to a very tricky situation.
I think there's a big, gaping difference between "alcohol at work" being "every friday we hang out and have a beer before taking off" and "people sipping on scotch while they work".

The difference is basically "at work (the place)" or "during work (the job)".
I don't know CAD models, but it would probably make sense to scrape the lego website where you can select all their bricks.
Each named brick has 8 images (various orientations):

https://shop.lego.com/Pick-a-Brick

I find it hard to believe that there are only 1421 bricks, including color combinations.

Example: "Apple with leaf", Color Family: Dark Green, Exact Color: Bright green, Category: Foodstuff Element ID: 4107050, Design ID: 33051, orientation 8: https://sh-s7-live-s.legocdn.com/is/image/LEGOPCS/4107050_s8

...This also makes me wonder whether it would make sense to set up multiple cameras, to get multiple orientations for every block. Use the image that has the lowest classification error, but use all orientations to train the network.
Rise of the Thought Leader: How the superrich funded a new class of intellectual
Bitcoin seems to be a victim of its own success. Transacting in BTC is expensive and very slow now. I think that's what is driving growth in LTC and ETH. BTC proved the concept is workable, but that doesn't mean it will stick around.
Publishing analysis/perspective/opinion pieces with different spin on the same underlying news isn't uncommon in publications that aren't simple ideological propaganda mills.
I find it funny that big corporations routinely bully small players into submission through these bogus legal shenanigans, but when Peter Thiel bankrolled a private individual in a legitimate, bonafide court case against a big media corporation, many people had ethical issues with it.

How is an individual with limited resources (money and time) supposed to ever hold their ground against $BIG_CORP?
I might be sleep deprived, but sometimes I'll go to the car for 15 minutes and be pulled out of a deep dream by the time the timer goes off.

Even if I don't fall asleep, just focus on your breathing, slow in slow out, and try to bring yourself back to that focus if your mind ever wanders. You'll likely be more rested regardless of whether your actually fall asleep.
> attributed some of this delay to his difficulty in finding independent experts who hadn't signed the open letter.

They emailed me asking why I hadn't signed and if it meant that I didn't agree with the petition.

Funny thing, two reasons why I hadn't signed. First, it was because I only caught the petition when it was already deep with many people I respect a lot and I felt I added nothing

And second, I was conflicted because i'd previously had a disagreement with The Guardian on another story that got kicked up all the way to editorial and I felt was never adequately resolved and was largely swept under the rug.

After that experience I didn't feel that The Guardian were genuinely going to make a best effort to resolve what was their own mess, again.

edit: to add, it drives me fucking nuts every time I hear someone repeat "I heard WhatsApp is insecure". Thanks again, Gruardian.
Good point. I updated my little script to (roughly) take each language's identifier rules into account. Now "?" is considered an identifier character in Ruby and "-", "!", and "?" are punctuation in Racket. It gets a little fuzzy, of course because ">" works like punctuation in "(> 1 2)" but less so in "(number->string 123)".

bracket punctuation
life.java 13.25% 27.52%
life.py 13.27% 21.95%
life.rb 9.56% 23.29%
life.scm 22.29% 24.81%

This gets Racket down to having similar levels of punctuation but note that, of course, brackets are still significantly more common than other languages.
Swearing can lead to later charges of harassment and verbal abuse. Alcohol can lead to situations where conversations and/or moves can be later interpreted as sexual harassment.

Chances that an ex-employee (or a vendor, or a customer visiting the office) will sue a small startup for that are nearly nil - the litigation is too laborious and costly. Chances that a $230 billion corp will be taken to court are somewhat larger than nil.

Even if the plaintiff loses or settles the case, the media still has a field day with it.

Do shareholders of WMT want that liability?
This is a very different situation. There is still a huge amount of debate about the actual effects of minimum wage increases. This is not the case for vaccines any more. At this point, the evidence for vaccines is strong enough that pro-vaccine should be the default position. This is not (yet) the case for raising the minimum wage.

As a result, ideological biases are important to flag, and studies possibly affected by bias need to be replicated and cross checked.
sad, grey big company vs drunk cursing bro culture. Maybe there is a middle ground.
Completely arbitrary is probably an exaggeration. I wrote a paper on this case for a Digital Cultural Policy class over a year ago so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but the previous commissioner almost settled the case and thought he had reached an agreement with Google that would pass in the Commission, but it failed to even reach a vote it was so poorly received.

If European businesses catch the ear of the Commission, it's usually to the tune of, "we're being cut off and consumers are thereby being cheated of the best deal." Sure, I omitted that from the previous comment, but the companies complaining know how to make their case, so it's never entirely protectionism in favor of European companies. I don't know if it would be possible to dispel the notion that it is always somewhat protectionism, so I won't go there.

The logic of the case made sense to me, and it follows a protocol that spans several commissioners. There are differences of approach depending on who's sitting in the chair, of course, but that's true of any government.

To return to your "Replace 'comparison shopping' with..." That's not a fair substitution. I see why you make it, I mean, they're tabs in the Google interface so the seem easily interchangeable. But underneath, there isn't a composite result returned on those searches with results from different vertical search engines like there is in shopping results (save "video" where YouTube and others show up), and there isn't the same opportunity for monetization from the search types you mentioned, so it's a monopoly powered search advantage that damages no one as presented on Google's results.

The US authorities are a bad standard in my view. They seem to be defanged puppies of the corporate overlords that bribe them into submission in many cases.

"The west!" How did I almost miss this gem?!? You make it sound as though the Iron Curtain didn't fall under Reagan's might but instead engulfed The Continent! Reminds me of Brick Tamland referring to Flyover Country as the Middle East :)
50% a good product, 50% spending billions in ads, bundling deals and nagging people to install chrome when visiting Google properties.
Probably beats the alternative.
From the wikipedia article:

"Controversy
Reich's analyses on the effects of minimum wage increases in his capacity at IRLE have generated controversy and accusations of bias from Los Angeles city legislators. Addressing IRLE's selection to analyze a proposed minimum wage hike in Los Angeles to $15.25, Democratic City Councilman Felipe Fuentes argued that "the selection of U.C. Berkeley, by perception, compromises the possibility of a fair and balanced discussion." Fuentes and fellow Democratic Councilman Mitch O'Farrell asked to reopen the selection process for a research team "so that we can engage in a process that is worthy of our employers, workers and their families, and the well-being of our economy."[14]

In March 2016, the Albany Times Union reported on hundreds of pages of emails from Reich’s research team that showed a close collaboration between the research team and labor union groups that fund the movement to raise the minimum wage. According to the article, “the relationship between academic and funder seemed explicit” with one uncovered email showing that the research team was seeking grant money to support its research "for local groups engaged in work to raise the minimum wage" and “testimony/media work” in California.[15]"

When you are getting accused of bias by Democrats, things are pretty bad.
Thanks, it's a pretty cool product too. (yeah I work there)
Strangely enough I didn't quite view it as an excuse (although it could have been?)
Ask HN: Best resource for learning about drone hacking?
If there are any makers out there, I've got a project I'm working on and it involves cameras mounted on mini-quads. I'm a newb to the field and would appreciate any advice on where best to learn about building, operating, and modifying quad-copters.
Nope. Spread it all out on a bedsheet and worked my way through the pile. I did (roughly) one category of piece at a time, starting with the bigger pieces.
Again, GP just stated that these are local links, links to anchors on that very same page, explaining the overloads.

Are there too many? For this class, maybe. It's at least potentially worth discussing it. But the way the navigation works isn't "just scroll until something seems to fit".
> the logic here is "if curse then harsh", not "if harsh then curse", which raises an interesting question is there a soft curse word?

I don't mean this to be insulting but rather to answer your question. I think the word "asshole" has relatively soft sounds.
I would guess it happens at every company when financial struggles arise. It's the easiest lever to pull.
An exhaustive list of products with a purpose of making our World a better place
Probably travel insurance.

Otherwise something like Cigna Global.
Might be mixing it up with MH 17, which each side claimed the other downed.
Last place I worked had a substantial alcohol budget - liquor, beer, wine, kegs. It was staffed with 100% adults/human beings, and people drank if they wanted, when they wanted, where they wanted and as much as they wanted. It was fun, and there were no problems. If there had been any problems, I'm sure people would have taken care of each other.
The point of end-to-end encryption is that it doesn't matter what they run on their servers.
This honestly doesn't sound very interesting. Just a regular piece of software using a few of many available location services that are based on SSID scanning. Mozilla for example offers the same: https://location.services.mozilla.com/
The other exception is advertising firms.