skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really dislike the whole "kids are coddled," "young people are soft" posts. I work and volunteer with young people all the time and most of them are awesome, wonderful people who are better, kinder and more intelligent people at their age than I was.

Their pressures are totally different, there is no way I would swap my youth for theirs.

-I grew up fairly free to roam around as a child, even as a teenager. Leave in the morning, come back when hungry or dark. Good luck being a parent doing that these days.

-We spent most of our evenings all watching BBC and talking about what was on the news. We had no choice but to talk to adults and other kids about the world and they had no choice either (in a positive way). How many times do you meet parents these days who are present but not really present with their kids because they are on their phones?

-Parents are cash rich but time poor. For many, even when they are home they are home they are working. We didn't have a lot of money when I was a kid but no way would I have preferred an ipad to spending an evening kicking a cheap soccer ball with my Dad.

-When I grew up, if you did something stupid like puke when getting drunk as a teenager, only your classmates would know about it. Now, your whole life is like some kind of advert - your open to social media bullying and pressures 24/7 - that's absolutely horrible.

-Parents and schools have replaced educated with homework. Literally kids are more screwed than ever with the amount of learning they are expected to do.

-Sex education, especially in most parts of US and Ireland is a joke. I got part of mine in the UK at the age of 8 and it was a massive difference - contraception, STDs sex, etc etc, all you need to know. There are still schools I know these days who think sex education is a video of a nun talking bullshit about marriage. Kids are overwhelemed by online adverts, porn etc but society in many places still isn't willing to give them the tools they need to deal with it.

-Casual first jobs that used to be easy to get as kids/teenagers have now become much harder to get. My first was working in a local shop. My next was the MIT Media Lab Europe when I was 15 - purely because I rang up and asked did they need a web master. They said yeah, why not? Do you know how much paperwork they would need to do to be able to do that these days?
I couldn't find anything in the post that correlates the Debian updates with security notices (which is your main point). If a security advisory comes out every 2-5 weeks and Debian updates on the same schedule, then I don't see a problem. But the data is just not there.

(These have to be advisories actually affecting the image, not all of them)
Interviewing in Python for my semi-dream job is one of the best decisions I ever made (on par with switching from Emacs to Vim). I don't even know the language that well, I'm an intermediate user at best, but the the reduction in cognitive load from how straightforward and ergonomic it is is crazy.

It was also nice that they had an editor available with serviceable Vim bindings. I think it was a big improvement over coding on a whiteboard.
And here I thought we had hit peak senseless-pattern-matching with the tabs-vs-spaces dataset.

I was hoping for a quick section introspecting on correlation vs causation and what this says about their process as opposed to a semi-serious presentation of predictive power.

I can only assume a total lack of rigor and process if this is what they choose to talk about publicly.
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It's a very basic introductory level text. If you want more detailed answers to questions like that, ask a professor or do a bit more study.

Anyway "why don't we have vector money" is a fairly interesting brain teaser. The way I'd think about that sort of question theoretically is: suppose we tried to actually implement a system like that. Why would people find it annoying / inefficient and go back to the way things were before?

Here's how I imagine it going. First, there would have to be an exchange rate between a_dollars and b_dollars, just like for any currency where you want to trade goods priced in one currency for different goods priced in another currency. Then, because it's inconvenient to hold a_dollars and b_dollars, people would just choose to hold onto whichever one was more convenient for them, and make exchanges when necessary. This means whole geographical areas would just use the same currency, because it's just simpler and easier to discard whichever currency is unused. At this point, we enter into the question of optimal currency areas - and basically the whole situation collapses to entire country using a single currency.
Sure, for now at least. Perhaps Coca-Cola is thinking longer term, or perhaps they are just doing what has worked for them elsewhere.

But if something changes the water shortage, either environmental or technological, then Coca-Cola is still in a good position.
> 2) I'm sure plenty of people who do not understand power laws are able to comprehend economic concepts around inequality.

Well, sure. But wherever a power distribution pops up, there's a chance that a complex system (small-worlds network) might be hiding in the gutty works. Which means that obvious "fixes", which might occur to the novice taking the class, to even out the distribution, could well have unpleasant side-effects. Up to and including complete/utter collapse.

Now - if the final chapter were something like: "Now, here's why everything we came up with in Chapter 1 was wrong.", that might be an interesting bookend.
> Security through obscurity is not the solution, though.

It's not the only solution but something that can be used to at least drastically reduce the amount of noise in logs.

> I've found that it's more efficient just to whitelist the IPs or subnets you might need and denying the rest.

That does sound more efficient but what if someone connecting doesn't have a static IP?
Boris Bikes[1] started operating in the middle of 2010.

I looked it up because I was curious about whether the scheme had any overlap with the above table.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santander_Cycles
Curious: what are the scenarios in which you needed glibc?
don't try to 'get' it. a poem is like a song. just listen or read it, and the words have meaning or they don't.

eventually you will want more, so you will listen/read with closer attention etc.

poetry is an inside joke.
You mean for that bet? Good question, and not one I'm likely to have to answer. But from the arguments, the spirit seems to be about traditional meat-brain-in-meat-body life.

Or do you mean for your own? This is between you and the person you bet with. If you have a firm opinion, definitely find somebody on the opposite side and see if you can put together a bet.
Every 10 years someone posts this. The message it sends is this "I don't actually take time to understand the unique situation of being a kid in today's economy and culture. I do not acknowledge that the experience is rapidly changing. I am uncomfortable with this new world and would rather put the blame on kids being 'coddled' without any data to suggest this than confront my own lack of understanding."
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> The starting point is so much more comfortable for all of these kids.

I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I mean, do we want life to be uncomfortable for young people?

It wasn't just your situation with your parents. A lot of adults today grew up with Joe Camel and cartoon ads like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yHsoW6CTjM

There was no anti-bullying education. Actually, bullying was basically okay when I was in high school. No concept of diversity training for staff and administrators.

I mean if things aren't as rough on teens as they used to be, why force them to suddenly grow up anyway? Don't they deal with a whole set of separate, new challenges adults never had?

Baby boomers get to live much longer as adults thanks to recent medical advances. Why can't young people live their lives young for longer as well?

If ycombinator is right about the coming future of basic income, then not only do these folks not have to become adults very early, they don't have to "eck" out a living either. Earning income isn't necessarily a sign of adulthood.

I'm not saying people don't become adults ever, because this is already a problem. We all know adults that act like children. I'm saying why force them to deal with some of the primitive experiences you and many other folks have dealt with?
Then as part of your code or deployment, your private key is on a server and some process decrypts it? It is low tech, but a good solution. Only concern would be how that private key is stored, and if it could be compromised. (edited)
Someone already implemented it in rust.

https://github.com/pikkr/pikkr
Shots fired.

Here's an tweet from Jean-Philippe Aumasson, one of the authors of BLAKE(2) (uses ChaCha ARX construction) and NORX (uses modified ChaCha replacing addition with an approximation based on XOR, AND, shift operations):

"where @KeccakTeam misses a big point: MD5 and SHA-1 got broken because of Boolean operations (AND/OR), not because of ARX operations" https://twitter.com/veorq/status/910255284920180736
That's good advice - I know at least one person for who Toastmasters has been quite transformative (beyond just improving his public speaking).

But a clause needs to be added:
"If you have fear of public speaking and you want to overcome it"

The last part is crucial. Just because public speaking is temporarily in fashion in some business circles no more means we all have to do it than we all had to eat fondue in the '70's, or grow beards now (OK that's heading towards passéland). Public speaking is fine, but it's just one of thousands of human activities you may or may not wish to do. You might choose to learn to ride a motorcycle instead. Or leap off burning buildings. Whatever your thing is.
Yes I checked, but it was not obvious. The author of the post is "Tsuyoshi Ushio", I guessed it was not you, and I didn't see anything similar to your username in the page.
Yes, sex can be joyful.

But sex is not a play toy, even if you're an atheist. The physiology of sex creates very strong bonding, and arbitrarily creating and then breaking those bonds is usually quite damaging to the human psyche.
https://xkcd.com/350/
Crowdsupply, who are selling the HiFive1 mentioned in the article.
Good parenting? As a parent, I was proud that my sons waited to date, took public transportation or rode their bikes, don't drink cause they're not 21 yet, and decided to have sex at the perfectly reasonable age of 19.

I did like how the end of the article mentioned how scary the world is today. They should try living through the Cold War, and the time of Crips and Bloods, and gas lines, and the housing crash. Now those were scary.
The post is an enjoyable one, but makes a couple of assumptions, one being that experience and coding ability are what get you hired. Sure, they help, and they're a prerequisite, but showing up wearing the right clothes and having the right attitude might actually matter more. People who use OSX are more likely to be the kind of dev with the tidy beard and the square glasses and the decent shirt. Devs using Emacs in Linux are more likely to be the aneruotypical who doesn't look their interviewer in the eye. Both are more likely to be good coders, though, since you don't get taught Vim and Emacs in school, you have to pick it up through a non-school network or through self study and research. Eclipse is the kind of thing you use because your professor taught you Java and you never did any coding that wasn't for class. Sublime is the kind of thing you use if you just don't really care about your editor one way or the other.

I'd be curious to know what kind of shop they are at TripleByte. Something tells me they might be Ruby coders using OSX all the time. Like attracts like, especially in interviews.
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When one adds these markers of significantly decreased development or preparedness for adulthood with the increase in social isolation being reported, the levels of psychiatric issues such as ADHD and depression being observed, the relentless rate of youth suicides, the obesity epidemic and more... at what point can it be deemed a crisis?
> Security through obscurity is not the solution, though

Security is about layers. Nothing is foolproof. It's about implementing layers of controls to reduce your attack surface to an acceptable level, with the trade-off that many controls increase the complexity of your setup or compromises the convenience for your users.

For example, for SSH, this probably includes

* changing the default port

* enforcing SSH key authentication

* enforcing passwords on SSH keys

* implementing fail2ban

* installing jump hosts for internal machines

* implementing a VPN rather than external facing hosts (and with that comes all the additional layers for the VPN)

* etc...
I think the burden is on the person claiming bad effects to name examples of those bad effects. It’s silly to have to prove the non-existence of something you see no evidence of.
He also hangs out and is pretty helpful on some fpga related IRCs
BEM -> CSS modules -> CSS-in-JS

https://twitter.com/markdalgleish/status/910281166128791553
> I'd love if you could point to any relevant mailing list/google groups discussions or whatever around this time

I heard about Web Components spec in late 2012. There are some blogs from around that time: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/speed-up-app-development-w... In five years not much has changed.

> Yes! I often have to work with multiple frameworks.

There is an easier solution to this than Web Components - using a single framework. Unless you are a consultant same as me, than we can only blame ourselves for having to deal with this.

> My point is: The fact that anyone can write them means that there'll be a sort of evolutionary competition

That's not what happened with React component libs (material-ui, react-toolbox, etc.) - none of them has "won", all of them are pretty similar in quality. I would say that quality of a component is less important than how easy it is to adapt them to your business needs is.

My point is that having more ways to create a component is irrelevant - Framework churn existed not because we couldn't share components, but because writing components and managing state was awful. Web Components are still terrible at both of these things.

The good thing is that there hasn't been any new JS innovations in three years since React, Cycle, Elm, ClojureScript boom. And I would claim that there is not going to be because we are limited by the textual representation of our programming language. So the Framework churn ended not because everything is perfect, but because we couldn't make UI development better.
Fair point!

I think a way to look at it is what earnings multiples companies trade at signals to companies how much money they can raise in an IPO or follow on equity issues.

For example, if Boeing is trading at 5X EBITDA then it signals to other aerospace and defense companies that they can expect to raise capital at a similar multiple.

It's indirect, but it still provides a service: creating a predictable, liquid securities market which firms can use to raise capital.
Seems straightforward to me. They’re going to sign Redshift certs themselves via ACM rather than paying a third party vendor to do it for them. This is a heads up so your app doesn’t break when they do.

What else would you like to know?
Fantastic response.

~4 hours from report to release.
Every previous generation thinks the current generation is coddled. When I was a kid, I had to walk through 10 miles of snow to get to school. "Snow day"? Schools are creating sissies I tell ya.
Amen, Unix spread that way.
Or it's theoretically worth twice as much to locate your company near the big tech companies. Can you really not entice people to move out to another city? Say Kansas City, which is quite pleasant. If they moved to K.C., a company could afford to pay devs the same salary as in San Fran, pay for devs to fly to a couple conferences each year, and give a bigger holiday bonus-- and they'd still come out ahead with the tax burden, office rent, support staff, etc. So is a hotshot dev from San Fran really refusing to move to K.C. for the same salary? They must know that their disposable income would double if they moved. I've been to both cities, and San Fran isn't that much better.
>Snapchat helped teens avoid creating a permanent record of things.

Why isn't Snapchat more popular than Instagram? I assumed that it was the case that more people have stage fright than don't. Is this a faulty assumption, or are people just acting in defiance of this fear?
~6000 undergrad oxbridge places/year, divided by ~1 million 18 year olds[1] == around 0.6%, so 1 in 166

[1]: http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/united-...
Oberon will also run on this [1].

[1] http://saanlima.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&pr...
You can buy 360 controllers for £25 ($33) new here in the UK.
That's a very interesting quote by Hayek.
the guys at stackoverflow are great. ben adams also.
The point is that you don't get to mean what you want to mean. That's childish. You mean what others understand you to mean.
I first bought Infinity Blade in 2010. I had forgotten about it for years and then redownloaded it recently just to find out that it was never updated to be 64 bit and that it hadn't been updated in 5 years - February 2012.

I was going to play it for a little while before I updated to iOS 11. To my surprise, Epic decided to update it for the first time in 5 years and port it to 64 bit code. It couldn't be because it was still making much money, but I did appreciate it.

EDIT:

It was also updated to support the iPad Pro.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/infinity-blade/id387428400?m...
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>I find it very dubious that the "Income Inequality" sits at the very first section

Deciding on what to start a bigger work is always a problem with things like this, so I wouldn't be too harsh on it. I believe I read that Marx spent 3 years deciding where exactly to start Capital Vol. I; in fact, he'd completed drafts for Vol. III by that time. After much consideration he started with the analysis of the commodity, not labour, not money, not alienation, not surplus value.

He commented in a foreword to the French edition that the French had a habit of wanting to get to the heart of the matter quickly - and for this he apologised.

I think your view is that of Marx's Frenchman.
Maybe the anomaly was the phase in the US when they did do these things so young?
Instagram has auto-deleting photo streams now, I hear.
Thank you for addressing this so quickly. Great find and great response.
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Something I was thinking about the other day was what will happen when we hit mass market process limits, Intel has always stayed ahead of it's competitors outside of x86 land even when their architectures where not competitive by having the best process but when the rest of the world catches up and suddenly I can order a 20bn transistor 3nm (or whatever) chip with RISC-V cores then things start to look a lot different.

Throw in that we already have a mainstream (if you squint) desktop OS that is a compile away (and has driver support for a lot of hardware) and if I where Intel I'd be worried in the mid-term.

Hell for the first time since the first AMD64's came out Chipzilla is looking vulnerable from the AMD direction, a surprise to a lot of people (including myself, I bought a Ryzen 1700 for work back in late May and I've been astounded by the performance per £ on my workloads).
That's not how a stock grant works now if they're just straight up giving you the shares, not via options. It gets taxed as ordinary income as soon as it vests, nothing you can do about it.
Sorry, I was sort of making a facetious joke. Sometimes it's surprising how fervently people revere tradition, and you do see it a bit more often in the UK, imo. Not that I'd be a great judge, having spent less than a month or so there in total.
According to https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/08/tinder-hook-up-cu... Tinder is probably decreasing people's interpersonal skills which makes relationships less appealing.
"This is more of an optimization choice, perhaps? Given the link is maintained, it might be OK to say the source code and the bytecode form are two forms representing the same object?"

Sure. :)
When you were a kid, there were plenty of kids with the totems of success and comfortable lives. It's likely you didn't see them, because we sort by class.

Presumably, you are doing better than when you were a teen, since you're on hn. That means the kids you see probably have pretty well off parents, with the cool new toys and stable homes. You can still find kids with marginal existences and few to no cool toys.

I mean, what's the difference between a pair of Jordans circa '88 and an ipod circa now?
There are a pile of different answers to these questions (not question), ones that should be asked separately.

For example, excluding factors that affect all the questions, putting off drinking is likely a combination of consumer education and the difficulty in getting alcohol pre-21. Fewer adults want to provide their younger peers alcohol because of legal risks.

Driving is the combination of increasing expense to drive a car you own, mandatory insurance, services like uber, and the need not to travel that modern technology presents.

Sex probably includes factors of better sexual education. Higher pregnancy rates are seen in populations with no or bad sexual education. Also, you are 'held to the fire' by the state if you get someone pregnant.

But some of the largest ones are teens aren't getting out in the workforce at younger ages. This means less money to spend on sex, drugs, and rock and roll, along with different social implications for the people you do meet.
The day that a profit can be turned, or political power gained as a result.
People want to keep in touch with other people? Yeah, I think so.
I would lik
Integrated language+database solutions are a recurring motivator for new one-off languages: Pick System and FoxPro are classic examples of writing around a custom language vs "scripting" inside SQL. Applications with custom database-like systems such as game engines also frequently lean in this direction(UnrealScript, GDScript). The main difficulty is in the practicals of getting all of the desired functionality into a useful package - not the theoretical aspects.

As of right now (for game projects) my strategy is to use source code generation to make the working language behave in a database-like fashion and emit a static result, rather than to engineer a complete dynamic schema with a scripting runtime and all the bells and whistles of a standalone database. The latter is both harder to build and lets me leverage fewer of the tools of the host environment.