skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't comment too much on this, except to say that it did cause me to recall something from my early childhood.

I remembered that in the first grade of elementary school, when I was 6 years old, that we used these workbooks with tear out pages to do these "math" problems. Simple addition and subtraction, IIRC.

But these workbooks didn't use numbers and symbols; instead quantities were shown by fixed objects (like coins, or other images), symbols were replaced by something else, but I don't recall exactly what (maybe simple words - so not completely "text free").

On a different note - a few years ago my wife asked me to look over a friend's child's homework, to try to figure out how to do the problems, and what the answers were, because her child was having problems doing the homework, and neither she nor my wife could figure it out (neither are very math fluent).

I looked at it - and at first it was "gibberish". There were some "standard" symbols for multiplication and addition, subtraction and the like. But everything else was symbols.

Like, there'd be a problem that visually was something like "circle + ? = triangle" or "2 square + 3 triangle = ?" (I may be mis-remembering things, too). It was very confusing, but fortunately the worksheet (which was all I had) had a couple of "example problems" and their solutions included. I studied things for a bit, then it dawned on me:

It was algebra - but it was being taught with symbols instead of numbers, and the solution (and how to arrive at it) was pretty simple to understand, once this was realized. In short, numbers are symbols (hey, I'm not a big math whiz myself - I know just enough to blow my foot off) - so it made sense that swapping these out wasn't that big of a deal, provided you had some base knowledge about the rules (which were provided by the examples).

I was able to figure the problems out, then write down how things worked for her (and her child) to read and understand. AFAIK, the homework was completed and turned in with correct answers.

At the time, her child was probably in the 4th or 5th grade, and it was interesting to me that the school was using such a system to teach algebra at an earlier age than what I recall having learned it (my first real algebra class wasn't until 7th grade, though in elementary school in 5th and 6th grades we had been doing some of the basics beforehand - I guess for "prep" for the coming years).

So, in the case of coding, I can see how this idea of starting with "abstract icons" (somewhat) to represent certain coding statements and ideas - and gradually phasing in text - seems like something that should work (and they seem to prove that it does, too).

Oh - another early example from when I was younger; arguably I first started to "program" when I got my first programmable toy - a Milton Bradley Big Trak. It's keypad used mostly symbols (plus some numbers) - but had other symbols for other actions...hmm.
Did you read the article? Based on their numbers, at least 10% odds.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
>In western culture, my experience has been: When you tell some acquaintance you're a software developer, engineer etc., they are almost instantly bored.

I think telling someone that you're a software engineer isn't the best way to make it sound exciting and high status. Tell people what the software does, or what the company does. Saying "I'm a software engineer" is like saying "I'm a screwdriver operator" rather than "I'm an aviation maintenance technician". Nobody cares about the nitty-gritty details of how exactly you get your work done.
Did you click a button saying you agreed to it?
Unless they form a contract with their employers saying they will take 49,999 for 2 years with a guaranteed raise to 60k at the end. Employer saves money, employee saves money, school gets screwed...
They get paid pretty fast though at Holberton, as they start their first internship after 6 months in.
For crypto/security people on this thread, what encryption could app developers use to wrap their API call so that the least amount of information is leaked to this kind of man-in-the-middle services?
I.e, is it possible to:
1) hide which apps are installed on iOS/Android;
2) hide or obfuscate how frequently the app is used;
3) hide specific API calls

I assume at least #3 should be achievable with additional encryption.
The exact terms aren't disclosed, and what is disclosed is too open ended.

This is what I could get from their website.

https://lambdaschool.com/about

> Attending Lambda School is completely free up-front, and students pay back a portion of their income after they find a high-paying job.

> If, for some reason, a student is unable to find a job with a salary above the set threshold, they are not required to pay anything. The total amount of repayment is also capped at a pre-determined maximum amount.

How long is the statute of limitations before I no longer have to pay?

What if I am unable to get a job, and then later do a paid-for program that does land a job?

What if I get a job as in QA, Program/Product Management?

What will stop you from changing your terms mid-course and require me to accept new terms before finishing?
I wonder if the algorithm to search such a space of axioms and transforms for a solution would itself be P or NP. :)
It is! At first, the following may appear quite counter-intuitive, but if you think about larger N and the fact that you often want efficient algorithms also when processing large amounts of data, it becomes clear that an exponent of 2 or 3 is, in practice, often the most we can realistically handle even when the problem is in P, and even though O(n^2) is extremely low from a computational complexity perspective.

For example, when you have an O(n^3) algorithm and want to process 10,000 elements (which are very few in many situations), it will be, as a rough estimate, 1,000,000,000,000 times slower than processing a single element. This will be acceptable only in very specific situations. As a rule of thumb, an exponent of 2 is already unacceptably slow in many practical situations, and at least on the verge of being unacceptable in others.
Please don't add new text to your comment after submitting it, it comes off as disingenuous and warps the discussion.
Most of these cases are detected automatically and the site is banned by the mods. See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14886728 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14858303

In most cases they use only 5 or 6. Sometimes they are real users that only create an account to write a comment that says "Amazing!!!".

Depending of the number of fake comments and if they retry, the site and users get a warning or are marked as autokilled.

Anyway, it's better to send this kind of reports to hn@ycombinator.com , because these post may disappear unnoticed.
Public Safety Assessment
When you land a contract.
Ah, ok, it's a global setting.

I thought it was something like when websites ask for your location temporarely.
> I never made that claim, nor do I think such a claim is accurate.

Wait, then what was "and then to call for the elimination of programs designed to encourage more women in tech" all about? I'm now in the position of having absolutely no idea what you are fighting for....it's not for programs to increase female representation, I presume it's not against such programs.....so what is it then? I guess we'll never know, which is fairly common in these conversations, because simply asking seems to be too much to ask.

Edit: (Sticking around to dole out some downvotes though I see, that'll teach me!)
Twilight just draws a transparent red color over the entire screen. That's different from what f.lux does.
Super practical and concise guide.
Even if they only missed a third of users, it would easily still be worth the $3B to Google.
How is this different than Make School's model (also a YC company)? I understand they've been doing this for some time, and even offer a stipend to people who are accepted in the program to help pay for housing and other costs.

https://www.makeschool.com/product-college/admissions#tuitio...
There's quite a difference between modelling a structure, and actually determining the structure. Methods that don't use any real data, but entirely predict folding will have to get a lot of testing before they'll be trusted at all.

The failures of these models are probably more likely in the really interesting cases. The boring ones that are very similar to existing structures are likely much easier to predict.
What is the crash rate improvement all about? I get the address randomization, but what changes in 64 that fixed crashes?
And, as far as I know, the LGBT crowd never built gas chambers and ovens to more efficiently mass murder other groups.

Nazis did.
Make the profile loadable via XHR and problem solved. For example.(Which I bet is already the case)
What's the exchange rate between units of attention and dollars these days?
We have many fruit trees (Several peach, couple of apple, pear, a nectarine, and an apricot).

When harvest time comes, we pick what we need and want to use or process, then advertise to the neighborhood that they are welcome to come and pick.

Often, no one wants to invest more labor than to pick up a box off the porch.
Oh look, another revolutionary battery technology.
Decision version of TSP is NP-complete.
Optimization version is Cook-reducible to decision version of TSP. And it problem is Cook-reducible to P-problem, then the problem is itself in P.
(note that it's not true if you replace P with NP, for example)
Ah I see (and I don't have an answer).

Is Jansport "iconic" or is it just "ubiquitous"? I'd say it's the latter. A better comparison might be Victorinox deciding too offshore Swiss Army knives to Korea or Thailand.
Wow, that sign analogy is really faulty.
Why should you help someone in your family instead of some random person any where else?

Because their related? We all are at some level. Because they raised you (father and mother might count, but probably not cousins, nieces or nephews)
How to sanely reboot a bunch of machines to test kernels
Not top level.
There are entire industries of the internet economy that disagree with you.
First-world problems
RTFA before commenting, folks. Questions and misunderstandings in this thread that are easily fixed if you just RTFA.
Most countries haven't made the commitments the US has. I'm all for reducing the size of the US navy, but first (or at least coincident) we have to reduce our commitments.

One of the problems is we're the guarantor of Japan's security, and we can't do that without at least three carrier battle groups (one on station, one under refit, one in transit). If we stop, Japan will feel compelled to build its own carriers (and not just "helicopter carrying destroyers"), which could kick off a regional naval arms race.

That's the theory, anyway. The Chinese are already building a first-class navy as quickly as they can, so the neighbors are starting to consider their options. And then there's the Norks...
I wish I could be as obsolete as Google. God, I might even start believing that you exist for Google level of obsolesce. Amen.
"Last stand" usually implies that the defensive force is either wiped out entirely, or otherwise basically ceases to exist - or, at the very least, that this would be their likely fate in defeat, because there's nowhere to retreat. That's not what happened in Stalingrad - as you point out, it was an eventual Soviet victory. Indeed, it was ultimately a major defeat for the Germans, with over 700,000 casualties, and far-reaching strategic implications in the theater. And there was certainly the opportunity for the defenders to retreat, if such orders were given.

So Stalingrad was definitely a heroic stand - just not a last stand. Ditto battle of Moscow, siege of Leningrad etc.

There were many examples of actual last stands on the Eastern Front of WW2, though. Brest is the one that's particularly famous, but some other examples would include the 28 Panfilovtsy,
Looks good.

I don't think that shade of blue is that bad for your eyes. I for instance have a gradient between fuchsia and purple, and it's probably worse.
In the US, generally it is binding. Communications and agreements between parties are binding particularly if TK received something in return for said promises.

Even verbal agreements are binding in the US especially when dealing with parties such as these. If TK hopes to have any credibility moving forward, with the Board or in the courts, it would be in his best interest to keep commitments or he will be stuck in the "did you lie then or is this version a lie" mess.

If he wants to argue that he made the agreement under duress then he can argue that in court and the court may find the the agreement is not enforceable but duress can be a steep hill to climb without physical, or threat of physical, harm.
> If you prefer to stay with 32-bit Firefox after the 64-bit migration, you can simply download and re-run the Firefox 32-bit installer from the Firefox platforms and languages download page.

Any reason to do so? It'd have to be some fringe use case of '<4GB RAM system & user doesn't need fast codecs'. If it's a closed business environment I'd imagine they're on IE
Google is the dominate search because it is just a lot better. That was true over Altavista and true today. Saying anything otherwise is ridiculous.

Heck MS owns PC and down to tiny share with Bing. Look at browsers in 2016 we had 300 million leave and mostly go to Google.

http://www.businessinsider.com/300-million-users-ditched-mic...
Over 300 million users ditched Microsoft's browsers in 2016 ...
I wonder if this isn't such a big deal since it's not like they're gonna verify beyond "can they scrape now?"

As long as that is true then they will likely not run in to issues. Other issues are not for blocking them and case can be made that it's a separate issue. Defending against common internet attacks is an easy case to make to a Judge. He can't be expect LinkedIn, in this case, to kill their service so someone can scrape.
It's definitely still around, and probably in a resurgent phase - see places like Serious Eats (http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/02/how-to-can-canning-pickli...). I have several young (~30yo) friends who do it.
If they pay a coupon every year, and you can resell them on a market at any time, then the fact that they won't mature for a hundred years doesn't make them unsuitable for ordinary investors.

Now, a hundred year term deposit, with interest payable at maturity ...
Just once I wish one of these headlines would end with " and is coming to market soon!"
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PL seems easier to get into and make useful things with, like a static analyzer that enforces some rule at a big co. From my perspective it seems like your need something PhD level to do useful things with it and get paid better than a standard FANG software engineer.

I'm probably wrong although, it's probably an exposure thing.
Why are you not dealing with the response? The very fact that this story got flagged to page two after 5 hours, with 600+ points and only 300+ comments, kind of shows what's going on.
> I agree but this policy is not applied evenly.

What policy?

> How was the gay wedding cake thing able to progress then?

In a large number of states, sexual preference is a prohibited axis of discrimination in public accommodations.
I used the following advanced sleuthing techniques (don't share outside HN):

1. I went to LinkedIn

2. I searched for "Silverlabs"

3. I found the page for their company

4. I clicked on the link labeled "14 employees and former employees have LinkedIn profiles"

5. I observed that all the engineering profiles were in Hyderabad.

I'm being a little snarky but also it's good to know how superficial this "research" was so it's not at all unlikely that I'm totally wrong about this.
Would you please not troll here? If that wasn't your intention, you need to make this comment more substantive and connect the dots to the current topic.
The Emerging Genre of Data Comics [pdf]
This is pretty cool. The general idea is that a gas station dispenses a water and ethanol solution that acts as the electrolyte and provides energy for the battery. And then recharging is done by reprocessing the electrolyte with renewable energies. If this turns out to be a technology that can work well on large scales, it could really be a game changer.
There's a bit of Machine learning behind it right? What algo did you use?
Users would be free to add the DNS server to their systems.
A full ISA from Make School would cost you approximately $90,000, and would require you to move to San Francisco for 2+ years. Nothing against Make School, we're just going after a very different market.
Which Siri fiasco?

Siri is “just” the second most used personal assistant, and the iPhone only has a 10-15% marketshare.
Been working for 3 years in the past in an email isp I had different information, gmail did cache the images and did it "forever". May be this changed recently?

More info:
https://litmus.com/blog/gmail-adds-image-caching-what-you-ne...
FYI: More than 80% of the workforce at Google have a higher education degree. (Bachelor or more).

The big companies only recruit juniors out of universities, usually the well known ones. An aspiring programmers will never get an interview without a degree.

Once inside the company, you will realize that virtually everyone has a degree. People who don't have a degree are discriminated during every step in the interview pipeline.
I just did my first municipal ISP design not too long ago and this document was an excellent introductory guide to the topic and understanding optics in general. The documentation for DWDM muxs (Ex: BTI and MRV) were also invaluable in learning how to apply the concepts outlined in the above document. This definitely expanded my horizons in the service provider networking field.
Ex:
http://www.juniper.net/support/downloads/?p=bti7200#docs
"They're charging me with some serious shit! And there's stuff that I didn't even do. Like inserting some virus called Da Vinci?" --Phantom Phreak
Before taxes.
That's part of snapchat's brand, they make all their shit unintuitive, obscure, hard to discover and use. It's supposed to make it so that you feel hip and in the know when you finally discover how to make that mustache appear on your face or make text float in the background of your video.

But of course that doesn't seem to transfer that well to selling hardware.
Making Flappy Bird Bot Using Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm
The Legend of the Barrier Skip – Zelda's most notorious glitch [video]
Oregon had a law explicitly restricting discrimination based on sexual orientation
Show HN: Nebulex, a fast, flexible and powerful caching library for Elixir
I believe Google Maps uses Waze's traffic data now, so crowdsourcing keeps it very up-to-date.
Ya I've got nothing against Holberton, it's just not a model that works for the vast majority of our students.
Not even close. At the very least, you have to consider APL.
I really hope this model ends up growing beyond CS and into other fields as well. The traditional 4 year university model could definitely use the competition.
You have a good point in that figuring out how to set everything up to code is a hindrance for those wanting to learn to code.

My start in "real programming" was after I received my TRS-80 Color Computer "for Christmas" (my parents actually purchased it much earlier for me, with my understanding that I wouldn't be getting much for actual Christmas - not a problem, I was thrilled).

Plug it in, turn it on, and bam - there you were at a flashing prompt, begging you to type in some BASIC code - which, there was a "tutorial manual" helpfully provided to teach yourself with.

Today, there isn't much like it any more to do the same. The closest would be the various online REPL systems for various languages; these fix the issue of setting up an environment, but very few (there are some) are designed to teach the beginner (to the language, or in general) programming.
I had one my father passed to me. It was 20+ years old and worked fine. (Needed a few leather threads)

I used it when I was 10 and before that, I had a cheap glove.

It wasn't gross. It was broken in, comfortable and much easier to use than a new glove.

Also, a cheap glove doesn't last as long as you think.
My car door is currently broken, the lock somehow got pushed into the door and the keyless entry broken years ago. Luckily, its only the passenger door so I just unlock it from inside but if it was the driver door I'd have to take the door apart to fix it.
LGBT people are a protected class, nazis are not.
It's just a preliminary injunction used to maintain the status quo (ie, allowing scrapers) while the case is heard. A preliminary injunction is basically "ok everyone stop what you're doing, maintain business as usual until the court rules."
I'd rather he applied his test to a bunch of papers for validation and showed us a confusion matrix.
I have been doing that since last November, saved a lot of money from buying coffee without all the side affects of having coffee. My focus is the same or more than having coffee daily.

Lookup nootropics, there's a reddit forum for it. I take a combination of caffeine, l-theanine, bacopa, and magnesium in the morning, and one caffeine pill in the afternoon.

I'm in Canada, you can get caffeine pills cheap: 100x 200mg pills for <$10.

Visit your local fitness health store, and asked them for stuff for focus. I am sure they can help you.
For example, algorithm that just copies it's input to output, unless input is proof of inconsistency of arithmetic, is correct algorithm to calculate function f(x) = x - yet it's unprovable in PA that it's correct.
Too bad the nifty techno-in-a-can synth diddling in the video drowns out the inventor talking about his technology.
> "I'd just leave it up to the browser or even the monitor."

As long as it is is easy to disable said behaviour. Case in Point: My rather fancy and expensive Dell monitors have got a so called intelligent powersave mode where they automatically power down if there is no activity after a period of time. Unfortunately there is no way to disable this "intelligent" behaviour. Also unfortunately this behaviour is buggy (tested on more than 1 Dell monitor). I can be typing, playing a game or just browsing around and bang, monitor powers down. It turns out the underlying cause is the type of connection I am using to the monitor.

It turns out that this "intelligent" powersave is rather dumb, buggy and best of all can't be disabled because why would anyone ever not need this glorious new feature, right? /s
Normally there is a bit of code signing involved.

Just in case the domain name lapses. (Or for any of a hundred other reasons why having a system that reads plain text commands from the network is a bad idea)
Why do you prefer it?
Or, maybe the guy was just involved, perhaps peripherally and by accident or perhaps directly and culpably, in a banking trojan scheme.
Bystanders' Privacy: Internet-connected devices and privacy for users and bystanders
tab hoarding = hundreds of tabs = more than 3GB memory used = crash (max userspace memory with large address space aware is 3GB)
When I wake up I pour 12oz of water into the electric kettle. I use a French press. And I chug 12 oz+ of water.

Lack of hydrating is probably my worst bad habit.
Turning LFI into RFI
I'm very impressed with Garmin's bluetooth implementation on the Forerunner series.