skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are classrooms really the best we can do and that innocuous?

this was an example once used by rd laing to show that from as early in our lives as preschool, much of the "nice" things we do because we care about others can still cause them to feel great distress

- teacher asks her students "which one of you nice children knows what 2 + 3 is?" & many children go "I do!" and raise their hands

- teacher pretends to not notice the ones who have their hands raised and instead gives her attention to a boy she thinks has not been participating very much as of late

- says "Billy, can you tell me what it is?". he dreads the embarrassment of being laughed at for making a mistake. he also doesn't like it when other students would immediately jump on the opportunity to demonstrate they could tell the teacher what they were supposed to tell her.

- after a silence following the teacher's question intended to encourage him, Billy answers "um 4?". the comedic effect of the long silence while the classroom waited watching billy answer ended by a meek mistake unfortunately proves hilarious to some of the students. others yet raise their hands even higher than they already were, restlessly trying to get the teacher's attention.

would it be fairly common for preschool children to personally feel they disappointed the teacher when they can't perform what the teacher asks?

if Billy is doubtful he can make the teacher proud and Billy wants to move the unwanted attention onto a student who wants the visibility (and grows restless without it), then Billy's subject to irreconcilable demands. Of course it's possible he'd grow petrified because he would associate "the opportunity to learn something I didn't know" with being singled out according to the demands of everyone else in the room.
"...he both regrets his participation in the war and is proud of it at the same time..."

I used to hang out frequently with a Viet Nam vet (close-support artillery, not Special Forces, so a different kind of thing of course), and he'd drink heavily and sometimes his war experiences would come out - just anecdotes, nothing horrible. It was just as you describe. I don't think he even really wanted to talk about that stuff, but it left such a strong impression that he was compelled to.
To be fair the regional government is even more corrupt and do exactly the same thing. Even more and also play the victim card
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Regardless of how bad Samsung's alternative would have been (probably Tizen, but possibly Windows Phone), it would still look incredibly bad for Android and Google for the news of the top Android OEM getting out of the Android space.
They have the DNA.

HTC made the first Android phone (G1). They made the first 4.3" smartphone (Evo for Sprint). They made the first 4G (albeit WiMAX) phone sold in the United States (Evo again). Their newest phone the HTC U 11 is arguably one of the most aesthetically attractive personal computing devices in production today.

I use Apple products across the board, but there's no denying that HTC has some serious hardware chops.
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At my old house I used to have a ton of amazon box thieves, even when I was at home downstairs. Put in some commercial grade dome cameras and crime stopped very fast. I’d see people walk up in the video, see the camera and just kinda walk away.

I think what you’ve pasted is more for businesses where thieves know there’s high value goods or cash. In a home it’s more smash and grab - whatever they can get quickly.

End of the day though an alarm system isn’t going to stop anyone determined to get in.
Tulsi "Maybe Assad is Actually Good" Gabbard isn't going to do too well.
The location of the isochrones themselves are a function of time, depending on current traffic levels, when the next bus is scheduled to arrive, etc. Hence, this map can't be static. To really be accurate, it needs to collect that data and auto-refresh itself in short intervals.
I appreciate the writeup!

One thing that I probably should have been clearer on: I used Sidekiq as a queue example here, but this pattern generalizes to anything. RabbitMQ is just as plausible.

> Background jobs are just one part of what a robust message queue gives you. In my opinion, the desire for background jobs is a design smell that indicates a flaw in your architecture which you can fix by adding a message queue system.

Possibly ... one thing to consider is that a fair number of us are writing various types of web services, and in web services there are so many obvious tasks that should be moved out of band to a background job. It's not even so much about distributing workload (although that's a nice aspect) as it is about moving expensive operations out-of-band so that a user's request finishes faster.

Here's a couple examples:

* Process an uploaded image into a variety of thumbnail sizes.

* Fire a webhook.

* Send a welcome email.

* Duplicate added/updated information to an internal microservice.

* Start a file download (like synchronizing a remote RSS feed).

In all these cases there's no reason for the request that initiated the action to wait on the job being finished. Moving the work to the background is purely a win from the user's perspective.
Thanks for that link. Very informative interesting discussion. There must be a lot of desire for attrs from the stdlib developers.
This is an example of a seized web site http://ref1oct.cat/ it had information about the poll.

The JS in the source is really sad, one of the options click baits you to an Spanish sports newspaper.
Their needs and goals are open source (sic) software.

Unsolving this problem would be self-defeating.
> The experience is just that. A fleeting experience.

I don't know what it is. I'm open to multiple possibilities. Either way, you don't know.
> Not everyone paying taxes drives.

If this was a city where there were wealthy urbanites who didn't drive, you would be right. If only the poor don't drive, then "Not everyone paying taxes drives" is basically a false statement.
Thank you, we are glad that you liked watchX.
I don't go around advocating violence, but neither do I shower it with the contempt that's been fashionable ever since the late 60s when showing up at a Vietnam protest became a viable way of getting laid. (There was even a poster - "Girls say yes to boys who say no!" meaning who dodge the draft. I digress.) I basically just try to understand violence and war as something that's been part of the human condition since day 1. So I flinched a little at the way this writer seems to write off Sadler and his struggles in such a casual and condescending way. And also at his unnecessary use of qua. That is the sine qua non of sanctius quam tu.
I see your point but at the same time my country has American nukes in it and we're not scared.

Of course that's a ridiculous comparison given current tensions, but you're assuming that Russia and the USA / NATO somehow have to be enemies by definition and the rest of your argument follows from that. Why would a Russia-Mexico alliance need to be scary? Why would a USA-Ukraine alliance need to be scary? Hey, can't we have Entire-Northern-Hemisphere alliance?

Of course this is not currently realistic, and I'm not actually suggesting all our leaders just hug and be friends. But the only reason that I can see that things are like this is because just about everybody, all the policymakers as well as friendly internet commenters like yourselves, just assume it has to be like this. That makes it sort of a self-fulfilling cycle. Russia and America have a cold war because they have a cold war.

There are plenty of countries in NATO that are about as undemocratic as Russia, or less culturally similar to the founding NATO countries than Russia. If Turkey can be in NATO, why can't Russia? Renaming "NATO" should be the blocker, right. Momentum is the only reason that I can see why these two sides need to be sides.

Really, I don't see why we need to be enemies other than ego tripping politicians doing a penis size contest.

But I'm probably missing something.
New letter: European businesses concerned about US changes to net neutrality
Childhood adventures for learning assembly language
Please don't rely on environment variables. It plays havoc with reproducibility.
> the "oppressed"

Sure, how are they oppressed? In 1938 Barcelona was bombed because the army wanted to destroy the republic and what existed of Catalonia autonomy. So any existing Catalonia autonomy or democracy of any form was crushed in 1939, replaced by a military dictatorship, and only started to recover in 1977-1978. The Spanish dictatorship killed thousands of Catalans after the 1939 takeover.

The same forces in Spanish society who did that are the same forces which seek to destroy Catalan autonomy again. By the same means, policemen kicking down the door. You dismiss prior referendums, fine. There is going to be one in 11 days. So if those polls you cite are true, then it seems independence will not happen. It's bizarre to call a referendum in ten days "outrageously undemocratic", while decades of a brutal dictatorship established by an invasion and the murder of thousands afterward goes without mention.
Is the JSON license allowed?
When you say bandwidth, what are you referring to specifically?

The biggest reason Linode didn't make sense for us is that we couldn't scale hard drive space without scaling everything else, too. As the site grew this became pretty crazy.
Why not the iPhone 8? Of course, an iPhone 8 Plus with 256GB of memory is right up near $1k as well.

I'm switching back from a Samsung Galaxy S8, which like the iPhone X has an OLED screen and doesn't feature a home button (Samsung is making the iPhone X's screen). Just too much time waiting for it to recognize me. It wasn't a lot, but enough to be annoying.
> That's grade-A genocidal rhetoric he's deploying. Good for observing that evil can wear any kind of face. Not good for much else.

Sounds similar to what Björn Höcke, prominent German neo-Nazi dude, barked (http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/AfD-Hoeckes-Lehre-vo...). Only thing that Höcke did differently was to hide the true meaning behind the layer of science (r/K reproduction theories).
> i find it amazing that in 2017, a time when the internet has been fully realized and adopted by millions of people, there is no open source, universal textbook hosted anywhere. most people say that there is, and that its called wikipedia, but i dont think so. wikipedia is good for reference. its also good for learning if you are very intelligent and motivated. but for people who are not super intelligent or who have not learned to learn yet, there isnt really a single, centralized, high quality solution for learning things.

They're not up to snuff, but these do exist:

* https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

* https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

Plus, of course, https://www.khanacademy.org/
How's the hibernate on it these days? That's and battery life are always the sticking points for me on making the jump.
What proprietary ARM extension are you just dying to have?
MIT geophysicist predicts mass extinction event due to carbon in oceans
>No one has any right to show me whatever they want.
Sure, but you have no right to look my way and then complain that I'm forcing you to view something you consider offensive, in case that's what you're insinuating.
Add this:

https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=

to any WSJ article to bypass the paywall. You have to click "Follow Link" to continue. You don't need to be logged into Facebook (or even have an account) for it to work.

The non-paywalled link is https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/article....
I'm getting 403 responses, hence the map isn't loading for me, anyone have some interesting screenshots of it working?
If catalonia becomes a country then border laws apply...
Biggest reason I went with a Simplisafe system a few years ago. They have a subscription, but it's got no contract, and can be installed in about 30 minutes without leaving any permanent traces. The ideas of permanent installs and a contract were a big turnoff, especially since I had spent time removing the old defunct system that was installed but couldn't be reactivated by any of the companies I contacted.
Stupid question maybe, but can you edit documents offline?
> They engineer their internal economy to keep cheap labor at near starvation levels of subsistence.

The first clause is true enough, the latter seems to be missing a ton of context, given y'know, the actual famine this same government caused two generations ago.

Low wages being a growth engine may not be fair or uniformly beneficial. Compared to the desperation of the cultural revolution it's sort of a paradise. Things are getting better, not worse.
Bought Boston Robotics and sold to SoftBank :)
That's all orthogonal to what the watch is capable of doing. Just like with phones.

I think gps+cellular watches have a lot to offer. Too bad they are still expensive and have modest battery life.
Shouldn't it be insignificant, even at scale?

Heck, JS spawns functions at scale for everything, and we're worrying about mere interpolation?
This is a really cool idea but the live demo won't load for me when I put an address in. Anyone else getting this to work on Chrome (61.0)/Linux?
Some people get the positive side of that experience in the Peace Corps. Much of their work in construction and education is like Army Special Forces without guns.
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>Google will keep the HTC brand and take on about 100 HTC engineers

Only 100 engineers? They are not planning on retaining HTC's phone unit any much functional.
Electric scooter maker Gogoro raises $300M for growth
That's just ahistorical, there have always been labor shortages through history, especially since industrialization. That's what makes it an old-school labor challenge. How do we get firms to pay for training? Well probably the same way we got them to do 8 hour days, overtime, paid vacation, weekends, etc.
Hey Andy,

Do you know what firewall system your work uses? We were blocked in a few of them but found that reaching out to those companies got it fixed.

Would be happy to help investigate!

Disclaimer: DDG staff.
I honestly don't know why they are allowed to handle the remediation and "damage control" at all, I've been saying that for over a week; it's been getting clearer and clearer that they do not have the operational capability to continue to exist, but nobody with any juice appears to be arguing this.

When they notified law enforcement well after the legal requirement to notify law enforcement had come and gone, that would have been a good time for the government to step in and say "hands off the wheel, we're handling this now." Would we be any better off today? I don't know, but my gut says no.

If I had to guess, the answer is that we don't just take companies and put them under state control here in the United States. It just does not happen that I am aware of. Can you name a time this happened?

I certainly can't think of a time when it would have made more sense to do this, but I am struggling to think of even one example of a company that was taken over by the state without searching.

It says here[1] the US government nationalized railroads and the Smith & Wesson company during WWI, and it also nationalized the railroad system and coal mines during WWII, and that Amtrak was the product of another time the government nationalized railroads in the 70's, but was re-privatized in the 80's...

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-history-of-corporate-national...

If the law enforcement agencies had taken some kind of stand, we might still have video interviews with CISO Susan Mauldin from 2016, that have now been erased since September 10, but for some reason there does not seem to be much interest in that. Everyone understands the company is "saving face" by removing those interviews. Nobody is saying it, but it's pretty clear.

There is probably no legal requirement to keep those interviews online, even if they might provide some insight into the mindset of the CISO and how she was influenced in the months leading up to the breach by the other executives and the board members of Equifax. The fact that this is not a bigger story probably owes mostly to the fact that this is already such a big story.

140MM Americans impacted, likely every last person in the country with a credit history's personal information exposed, quite possibly enough to shutter the credit system as we know it for good. What's a little cover-up compared to that?
If by "stops obeying the constitution" you mean "holds a referendum" I would be fine with it. What I am not ok with is a central government rounding people up because they want to hold an election.
"It is not uncommon to hear of transmen who talk about always knowing they were male and were really confused when their penis didn't grow at puberty." Slap me with a citation, please. I had no idea what was awaiting me at puberty.
"At least in the UK the government allowed people to express themselves, even though many thought an independent Scotland would be a huge mistake."

That referendum was restricted to two options, what the UK government wanted and what they thought was too extreme a position to win. By excluding the middle way option, which polling suggested would win they hoped to get their own position rubber stamped.

The fact that it came so close us a testament to how badly they played their hand.

See also Brexit.
We had something like 200,000 people come to Montreal to "protest" in a unity march: "Please don't leave. Please stay in Canada".

I didn't see that sort of thing during the Scottish referendum, and I sure don't see it in Catalan.
Depends on the age. For an older kid, maybe extra spending money. For a younger kid, maybe a special outing, or a special treat like a frosted cupcake.
I think impacting everyone is a big part of the idea. I'm all for every possible tactical advantages if we're risking the lives of our youth and I don't know that a full vote in both the house and senate in order to wage war is the right thing but I'd absolutely support some sort of constitutional amendment that created a tax and draft for any military engagement that lasts more than 30 or 60 days or something.

We have to pay for that stuff and we have to staff it.

The real costs of Iraq and Afghanistan will play out over the next 50 years. Vets already commit suicide at a staggering rate. We already under treat post traumatic stress. We under treat most emotional issues. We over treat "pain." The divorce rate among soldiers is something like 2 to 3x the national average. The people that go and do the fighting don't exactly make up a nice normal looking slice of our national demographics either..
The Cleverloop system sounds like Neatmo. Do you know if they are related?
To be clear, Amazon sells a lot of fake cameras labelled as such for like $12. These, some alarm window stickers & a Beware of the Raccoon sign are my main security system.

https://www.amazon.com/Security-Realistic-Surveillance-Busin...
Hmm. As I understand, the primary purpose here is to have a permissive license with a patent grant. Some problems I see:

1. If you're actually have patent claims to your name (a minority of people, while every author is ipso facto a copyright holder), you will probably want to use an expressly vetted, narrowly drafted patent grant.

2. The way the license is worded, it may ask you to do things that you can't do, e.g. if you have the rights to use a patent claim, but not to (sub)license it. (Contrast this with how the Apache license words its patent grant.)

3. It's not clear how broad the patent grant is. It's not inconceivable to read it so that once somebody uses the software, they get an unlimited right to your patent claims, even outside that specific piece of software.

4. You may be waiving your right to use software patents for defensive purposes, too.

5. There's lots of fuzziness in the wording. What are the "usage rights that the author hold on [the software]"? US patent law grants rights to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing the patented invention; it does not grant a right to exploit the patented invention. (Unlike copyright, which creates an exclusive right for authors to use and distribute the work.)

6. How compatible is the license with other licenses with patent grants?
Actually I'd say that managed OpenStack Swift is a better solution than B2, if only marginally more expensive.

Take e.g. OVH's Swift pricing[1], which is $0.011 per GB (stored and outgoing). I found Swifts latency (at least on the OVH cluster, with the OVH CDN) to be much better than B2. Swift also satisfies my paranoia about having a remote storage system I could setup on-prem.

Also, more storage regions, much better network infra, actual access to software running on the cluster (Swift, not some proprietary API).

YMMV

[1] - https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/
> Times change, the world changes, people change. A constitution is a very important document for a country

There are legal ways to change a constitution. In all cases, it starts by changing public opinion.
There is no way on earth Samsung would have dropped android. Google lost this game of chicken, that's for sure.
You are mixing apples with pears. Some people are willing to take possession of a piece of land that is not theirs.
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A queue is good for relieving the burden of processing the correct items from the list (so you don't have to query the database to know what to process next).

Apart from that would say that you should still have a serious ACID DB like Postgres for state management.

Then push the unique identifier of the task to the queue, and let the actual data live on the database.

Queues are good for being queues, not for being data stores.

I have seen some horrific cases of people mistaking a queue software for a database.
This shape has been seen again and again in bitcoin, every time there is a bubble this occurs.
Besides SPY, do you store the rest as cash? What if a high inflation rate will be used to avoid a recession? meaning, cash in banks will lose value.
thanks for posting that!
How is it any different from an intercom system?
If "consciousness" is taken to refer to this "thing" I can be certain I have but cannot be certain you do, then it doesn't refer to any objective property that can be proven or explained, right?
It's a continuous, ongoing process of transforming societies. It's delicate and must be protected and cherished.
I guess I should have clarified when they are in active duty. Back in civilian world / outside of that environment, yeah sure, can be pretty normal folks.
I don't think you should learn a language for machine learning. Learn algorithms and techniques.

In particular, C++ and Java aren't different enough from each other that one is going to have a big edge over the other in machine learning. An algorithm that can be implemented in one can be implemented in the other, without a radical difference in code size, development time, or execution speed. Java may be slightly easier due to the possibility of running off the end of arrays, and following uninitialized or stale pointers, but you're not supposed to write C++ that way any longer. It's much easier with C++11/14 style coding.

(There may be differences in availability of useful libraries between C++ and Java, which may be what you're really asking. I don't know enough to answer that.)