skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My strategy pretty much consists of subscribing to good creators and curators across all channels.

I have a bookmark folder (aptly named 1) which opens:

- My Gmail "newsletters" filter view
- My AOL Reader
- HackerNews
- MetaFilter
- My Facebook "Must read" user list
- My Twitter "Must read" list
- My Reddit "Must read" list
- My Youtube "Subscriptions" page

In each one of these there's my selection of profiles that reliably create or flag good content (to my standards).

If I have the time, I also go for the noisier and long-form channels in 2:

- Newspapers
- My YouTube "Watch Later" list
- My Pinboard "Read later" list
- HN Explain (in case I missed something big)

Being able to prioritize what comes into my "inbox" and being able to defer longer or more exhaustive content for later helps me always get a pulse of things quickly without spending too much time or mental energy.

Podcasts have a routine of their own because I listen during commute and workout but I treat it like my inbox: two daily scrubs of new content, and what seems interesting goes to the "Up next" playlist.
Also, the article specifically refers to lawyers, and this is a very particular profession:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace#C... - I don't think it's sex that matters.
Bill to issue greencards based on a points based system, much like Canada Express entry. The draft of the bill is here

https://www.cotton.senate.gov/files/documents/170802_New_RAI...
It depends on your definition of a good university.

For you, the most important result might be economic gains/growth and for others, it might be scientific/academic achievements such as Nobel prizes, research papers, major scientific breakthroughs, etc.

If that's the case then the US is not the only education superpower.
Pretty sure 'char' in this case would be 32 bits.

Arguing that C shouldn't support microcontrollers seems a bit unfair. What should embedded software engineers use, if not "high level assembler"? There are plenty of modern languages that sacrifice performance in order to be fully hardware agnostic.
Someone should apply deep learning to this and check how it compares with brute-forcing passwords. E.g. https://github.com/thoppe/5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7e...
> We do have top-tier universities (UBC, University of Toronto, UWaterloo)

I agree. I didn't deny that. Now compare how many top universities we have in the US? If the US has hundreds of top universities and Canada has a handful, how does that make canada an education superpower? If canada is an education superpower, then is north korea a nuclear superpower? Isn't the word superpower supposed to mean something?

> We're home to top-tier companies like Shopify.

Shopify is top-tier? It has revenues of $151 million/year.

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

>On account of the British North America Act that became law July 1st 1867, these British colonies would be recognized as an independent nation."

But they weren't an independent nation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Act_1982

Canada became "independent" in 1983. Canada celebrated its first Canada Day in 1983.

To claim canada is 150 years old is a verifiable lie.

Listen, canada is a wonderful nation. I have nothing against canada. My complaint is about the article. Its assertions don't make any sense.
This is good news, but it doesn't tell the whole story. What's important to remember is that each Canadian province has its own education system, so mileage may greatly vary depending on where you live in Canada.

In Québec, where I live, the drop-out rate is abysmal compared to other provinces, especially in french-speaking school boards [1] (which are much more numerous in Québec):

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/dismal-dropout-rates-...
Yes, it used to be quite easy with Google RSS Reader and Feedly to keep track of the stuff thanks to RSS, but a lot is happening on not in public anymore going to Facebook Groups, LinkedIn Groups. I gave up on Twitter a year ago because to much ads and feed got too crowded too quickly but I'm going back to it and their algorithm is doing a better job at curation for now.
There is the softwareengineering.stackexchange.com where this type of question is on-topic:

> If you have a question about...

> software development methods and practices
> requirements, architecture, and design
> quality assurance and testing
> configuration management, build, release, and deployment
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I'm not sure that is the exact title I would use, but it is certainly a good description of the content I would put in this talk. (My only concern with the title is that the talk I am envisioning would cover the specific technical details of ONE solution to coordinating modular development, rather than an overview of many possible solutions.)

I do, however, understand and appreciate your point that the title of the talk should put the talk in a broader context, particularly addressing why the listener would be interested.
> Go check a list of top 100 universities. It's almost entirely US colleges

Checking https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-un...

A quick and rough count shows 38 American universities in the top 100. Where I come from, 38% isn't almost all. It's not even most.
It's easier to write safer code in C++ but there's still many pitfalls and it's still a lot of effort. There's really nothing even remotely close to being practical?
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Even if rails is declining overall, it is still one of the frendliest beginner frameworks out there. If it lives on in practically every bootcamp curriculum as the go to framework which can be taught in 3 weeks flat, why will it be replaced? Or is that not enough to ensure the ecosystem stays afloat?
I wondered about this. Yes, you may have stolen some bitcoin from people but you can't do anything with it. It's all traceable through the blockchain.

You can't buy anything directly with it because as soon as you receive the goods the police will force the person who provided the goods to you to give away your details.\

You can't take it out into your bank account because that will also identify you.

So - a bitcoin mixer would seem your best bet, but even then it just makes it "more difficult" to trace. Not sure I'd want to risk many years in prison on that.
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Thank you for the reply! It certainly does.

Something that you guys might find interesting. Even after a day I already forgot exactly the name of Guggy, instead attempting to navigate to http://guppy.com and http://gubby.com. Probably just my bad memory, but might help you guys out if you see bad retention.
OFFTOPIC: avoid it at all cost. Energy, time, attention, focus = the most valuable resources out there.

Valuable content will find you anyway.
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Proving correctness isn't enough. You have to test it too. It's perfectly possible for the proof to have errors (bugs). It's also possible for the proof to be incomplete: you can prove the algorithm is correct and implemented correctly to spec and still have vulnerabilities.
I always thought they're free.
So basically the anonymity it provides is being a simple alias instead on full name in the eyes of authorities?

How does one stay anonymous without being perceived as a threat by authorities is the million bitcoin question
Hanging out with immigrant kids in the US I would tend to agree. A few years in the Persian Gulf with mass immigrant youth mixing with a GCC citizen subset in schools as a policy requirement still provided lots of anecdotes that those GCC students care a lot less than expat kids despite pressure on the latter. They can get jobs slated for GCC nationals only with lax requirements. Many see little value out of college beyond the elite who wanted out.

Now immigrant and expat to me means overlapping national and ethnic and national backgrounds. It is an issue of the intended period of their residency.

I think govt policy was hoping for the later in institutions like the one I worked at, and it made me sad.
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Having gone through the Canadian education system, I would guess that Canada's high score comes from doing a good job on the lower percentiles, 1-50 or so. The system is slow and repetitive in the lower grades; its focus is getting everyone up to basic standards rather than challenging the best students. But if you're at all clever and diligent, it's boring.

Tracking happens late, at entry to high school (grade 9), where they split you up into academic, regular, and vocational tracks. From there on things move at a more respectable pace, at least in the academic track. But at that point the top-track students are already years behind their peers in other systems that moved faster and tracked sooner. I would guess the top students coming out of high school are about two years behind students in academic tracks in other countries, like the UK or Germany.
faraday cage?
That's not a useful metric. The questions that today show up as locked for historical significance were simply closed before the historical significance lock was introduced.

Conversely, the lock was introduced to stop those highly interesting (but ultimately useless) questions from getting deleted. If anything, it's a step in being less strict.
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(then the analogy works for me)
First mover advantage ;)
There's no such thing as "actual" BTC holder. All the BTCs in the exchange are fungible. A holder of BTC doesn't know if that BTC was loaned to someone else or not.

In a sense, what you suggest is exactly what the exchange did: They calculated the number of "actual" BTCs in the exchange, and split the appropriate number of BCHs evenly among everyone.
> because the servers are physically seized.

Not necessarily. A acquaintance of mine at an ISP always did that when police came knocking for "illegale pirating" allegations. His standard response was: Get a warrant or else I would commit a criminal offence (what he would have done).

Nearly never police came back with a warrant.
And in the spare cases they did come back he did provide the data (if it was still available) and never did any equipment get seized.
Lately I have been writing a lot of Python and I am seeing a lot of bit rot in Stack Overflow lately.

For one thing, it seems almost all the code snippets use "print-without-parenthesis" from Python 2, so you cannot just cut and paste them into Python 3. It isn't hard to fix this, but it's a clear sign the lights are on and nobody is home.

The lack of curation is a problem too. Often the first answer is wrong, or less than optimal. From the viewpoint of somebody looking for answers you don't really want 10 people's opinion, you want one really good answer.
> For you, the most important result might be economic gains/growth and for others, it might be scientific/academic achievements such as Nobel prizes, research papers, major scientific breakthroughs, etc.

I agree.

> If that's the case then the US is not the only education superpower.

The US is easily the only education superpower.

Go check the nobel prizes of US vs Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_uni...
Ive used notepad++ but recently I found Visual Code and it replaced np++
I'm not sure we can/should assume a lack of animosity. In most cases, these things exist alongside animosity. Human culture is very complex and the story is usually multifaceted.

We all recently revolted against the last empires and quasi-empires in favour of nationalism. It's hard to say it was unjustified, and it often came with democracy and other aspects of liberty and liberalism. But empires have played complex roles in human history. They were oppressors and enslavers, but also collectors of culture and scholarship. Enablers of travel, commerce and cultural exchange. They brought disparate cultures together, voluntarily and involuntary.

Massive empire building in many cases left culturally rich legacies. The Mongolian empire opened east-west exchange of ideas and contact between scholarly, religious and artistic culture throughout all Eurasia. Some credit it with enabling cultural movements like the Italian Renaissance. This was alongside atrocities. Look up the conquest of Baghdad.

The Baghdadi Jews the article references have a long history with empires. The community started 2700 years ago, when the King of babylon conquered Judea and shipped Jerusalem's elite to the Bagdad area. The enormous Persian empire conquered Babylon and they were at the center of a cultural superpower. Then Alexander's Greeks Came, then Romans, Parthians, Caliphs, Khans, Seljuks, Ottomans... Many Emperors. Much blood. Much art.
Ask HN: Added someone on Facebook/got suggestion on Linkedin
I just added someone I met on Facebook. Now this person is suggested to me in search on Linkedin. Is it rapportive or some other browser extension doing shenanigans or how does this happen?

I know Microsoft is involved in both Linkedin and Facebook; so there might be also a connection there?
And it's not just any old radioactive source, it's a positron emission!

I believe the way it works is that the injected source emits positrons as it decays (having swiped them from the vacuum), shortly thereafter, these annihilate with the electrons of your body, and the scanner looks for the signature pair of gamma rays thus created, using the relative time of arrival to determine their common origin in 3-space. That reduces the problem of scanning to arranging for the decaying source to accumulate in the place we wish to scan which apparently can be done.

That we scan ourselves by annihilating antimatter with our bodies in targeted ways just seems so awesome to me.
Woah that's pretty neat! Thanks!
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Regarding the Jefferson quote, John Adams (surprise!) didn't agree:

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Point being, you'll need more than a Jefferson quote to establish your point that information is sufficient for a competent electorate.
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Have you heard of the stack overflow podcast? Pretty good

Some others

Embedded -
Coding blocks -
Artificial Intelligence -
Ted Radio Hour -
Changelog -
Masters of Scale -
Indie Hackers -
Hack the Entrepreneur

Pretty much listen to any coding/programming/entrepreneur/news related stuff.
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Google et al are largely a consequence of the Cold War. That is government programs dumped massive amounts of money into tech programs creating the first wave of wealthy tech entrepreneurs, since that time the feedback loop has continued.

The valley would not exist without quality schools, but those schools are no better than Canada's. Evidence for that is the significant number of Canadians recruited to work in the valley. Google and others hire Canadians because their schools put out top performers.
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Give https://github.com/qor/admin a look.
This is the point people miss. Same as wordpress vs creating your own blog. The more popular the software the larger the interest and the bigger exploit if successful.
The only addition I want to make that I haven't seen in the comments yet is http://nuzzel.com/.
Good find.

Still (see paragraph [106]), it seems to me (my French is not as good as it should be) that the generic point remains untouched:

>Par ailleurs, le paragraphe 29 n'autorise pas un huissier à interroger des témoIns comme bon lui semble. Il ordonne plutôt ...

>Furthermore, paragraph 29 does not authorize a bailiff to examine witnesses as he sees fit. Rather, he directs ...

Imagine that I have an Anton Piller order to find and seize for preservation something at a high risk of destruction, let's say all sugar in your house ;).

I can ask you where you keep the sugar, biscuits, cakes, sweets, mints and lollipops, besides soda beverages and chocolate. (and if you refuse to respond you are passible to be held in contempt of the Court)

I can also check whether you have hidden your sugar in the bathroom or in the bedroom.

What I cannot ask you is whether you are member of a club of sugar addicts, and the name of all its members, where you bought those nice looking cupcakes, how much meat and bread do you eat everyday, etc.

The scope of an Anton Piller order is just for presevation of evidence and specifically of evidence at high risk of destruction.
Indeed. See Simspons's paradox, sub-grouping, and so on. There are deep problems in: the lessons we can learn from a population, vs how a specific individual will respond to a specific intervention; plus the filthy complexity of real life outside the lab.

Basically it boils down to this: we don't know where you as an individual lie on any of a huge number of bell-curves. Statistically, you're likely to be in the middle of all of them -- and yet it would be impossible to find an individual who actually is. So the more complex an intervention (and running is a very complex situation) the more trial and error you'll probably have to go through.

This is not a popular thing to say.
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I think JavaScript could be salvaged if, let's say starting with ES8, the new version would be incompatible and old scripts would require some legacy mode. That would allow fixing the major issues.
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They can go and ask/seize since it's on German territory. Encrypt the shit out of it. My servers are in Amsterdam/Paris.
What is HN Explain?
You can do crypto as a side-hobby and safely put it into production. Of course, you can also do it wrong, but it is with little work possible to do it correctly.

Normally I wouldn't speak against what you said because the critique is only very minor, but I heard this too often. Your warning is too strong. People should try their own crypto and with little care it is not unsafer. Maybe giving a list of do's for that would be a good start.
This is an example of the prisoner's dilemma (Game theory). The optimal strategy for both of you is to compromise on a solution. The best strategy for each individual is to tell the other person to quit. So if your partner is insisting on you quitting the he has the upper hand. Now maybe you explain the problem in terms of game theory to your partner.
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Well we have discussed this in other threads already :-).
That's the problem with Ruby in general that you can only solve certain problems with it.
Beyond Rails,devops and some obscure embedded stuff they do in Japan there is not much that you can do with Ruby.
I regularly read Adrian Colyer's blog. -> blog.acolyer.org. Every single day. Simply reading through his reviews has increased my knowledge about Computer Science by leaps and bounds. Also, I see for new uploads in "Emerging Technologies" and "Hardware Architecture" section of Arxiv everyday. My daily ritual.
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The goal of law firms is to maximize billable hours and make it difficult for non-lawyers to conduct legal work. Working efficiently is not the goal at all.
No backups? Security involves the ability to recover from a breach too! :)
Verifying data consistency between data centers in cassandra
I am maintaining a cassandra cluster with 2 data centers. Now I am going to add new data center in that existing cluster. After rebuilding data, how can i verify the consistency of data in new data center?
Some pages are pretty good, and poor quality content gets downvoted and eventually deleted anyway. To take an example if you search for "php mysql" on Google, the top result is a w3school page full of ads with little content.

The Documentation page for this in comparison is helpful and gives a good overview (with more and more detailed topics as you scroll down): https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/php/2784/php-mysqli

But again if it doesn't show up in search results it doesn't matter. That also means there's less of an incentive to improve the content since nobody will read it.
> Real education superpowers are those with top UNIVERSITIES which in turn produce economic gains/growth/etc.

Why is your metric considered more apt than the article's? Good student performance consistently correlates with higher-paying jobs and higher quality of life. At the nation level, this correlates to higher Human-Development Index, which is generally considered a pretty good thing to have...

> If canada was a true economic superpower, we'd see them producing Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.

That is utter nonsense. What does this have to do with education at all? Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker, and Steve Jobs were all college dropouts. They simply had the right idea at the right time. Their economic success has very little to do with the U.S. education system.
Yeah, I think the project is really cool, and I wouldn't mind building one for fun, but that little Teaser page really turned me off.
> Maybe I'm too "left wing", but if you ask me short selling, complex products and high frequency trading are among technological "improvements" that have led actual stock exchange to an ugly mess where biggest profits are made by "scamming" efficiently other users

Short selling is what keeps the cheerleaders in check.
Platform dependent apps will be here as long as the platforms will have different functionalities. And I hope that innovation in hardware space will not stall.
How is the paper getting its data? Maybe I didn't read carefully enough, but don't they need to know the liquidation preferences of the rounds?
> QML Canvas

Performance scales with size of canvas. I need an API which scales with the number of objects on the canvas.

> Context2D

Too low level. I don't want to recreate my own subset of SVG-- including handling dirty bboxes and rolling my own viewport.

> Context3D

These are 2d diagrams so a 3D API is definitely overkill.

I'm not making up my functionality needs. My app's frontend is ported from the old Tk canvas interface, and some users end up making diagrams the size of posterboards or billboards. SVG is by no means a sane API but its the only one currently in the entire HTML5 monstrosity that can do everything the old clunky Tk canvas can do.
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I do not understand the hype about Snapchat... Doesn't IG do everything and more?