skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plunder is a silly excuse.

It's really isn't. "Colonial plunder" isn't a horde of soldiers rampaging through your country taking your gold and women. Colonial plunder is generations upon generations of domestic industry killed by high taxes to favor imports from the ruling country, turning peasants into serfs bonded to the land to pay taxes, exploiting and inflaming pre-existing class, caste, and religious differences time and time again to keep the people from uniting against the rulers. People (at large; there are outliers) stop getting an education or starting any business larger than a shop because what's the point? The financial system doesn't grow beyond small moneylenders. People become bitter and try to keep the little they have from their grasping neighbors, everyone fighting over the few crumbs the ruling country throws you. For hundreds of years.

> A lot of countries have managed to grow very fast from abject poverty to first-world status. Japan. South Korea.

As I mentioned in my reply to your other comment, they are much smaller, and had plenty of help from the US. Do you have any other examples?

> China is the latest: from the depths of the Great Leap Forward (backward) to now. And that's even though China too was plundered. That's a huge "so what" to the plunder thing.

Incontestably true; India hasn't done as well as China. China still isn't quite a developed country yet and India is maybe 20 years behind China. I don't think it's a great shame to come second to China. Their political system has always optimized for getting things done no matter the cost. India went a different, maybe softer, way. Probably not even deliberately, I'll admit.

To this day it saddens me when middle-class, educated, relatively well-off Indians say things like "I wish we had a government like China's so our roads won't have potholes anymore".
At the core of the comparatively good relationships between labor and capital in Germany is the law requiring labor representation of 50% - one vote on large companies' boards.

This results in a complicated role for both sides that isn't just adversarial as it is in most other countries. Labor shares the responsibility for the company's future and gets to be part of every step of the process when it comes to making hard decisions. But it also requires management to strive to improve their employees' well-being, since they will often require their cooperation.

If these specific solutions are anything but band-aids/wishful thinking/PR remains to be seen. Germany has, just like all other countries, seen an increased use of time-limited contracts and temp agencies, leaving many employees in perpetual danger of immediate social decline if the economy hits a road bump. And it isn't quite clear if the rise of machine learning + robotics isn't the one innovation and bucks the trend, and actually does create a class of people that is essentially shut out of the jobs market by machines that are strictly more productive at any job they can realistically perform: there's only so much programming you can teach a bricklayer in his 50s.
Assessing Competency and Outcomes is one thing when done in a learning environment and quite another in the real world.

If students need to be prepared for the real world, this will need to increasingly become reflected in the amount of time spent in real-world learning vs in-classroom.

The question becomes - how will real world learning get to the classroom to reach the student, and how can the classroom meaningfully be with the student when they are with the real-world?
Oh man forget about these / that movie! As another aside, current really David Halberstam’s “The Next Century”, published in 1991, and his main focus in the book, after Eastern Europe, is Japan. All of this is laughable now (though some say Japan will be a superpower due to the military it’s built up to counter North Korea after NK falls), but makes you wonder, what threat do we all believe in now that will really turn out to be a paper tiger in the years ahead?

EDIT: quote from the book...”the Cold War is over, the Japanese won”
They desolder it and resolder it into a platform to read it
Haha! Don't let that deter you from attending the lectures! I unfortunately didn't get past the waitlist but was still able to attend the lectures and learn a lot.

It was an absolute delight to learn from Prof Stroustrup!
Unless it's gone radically downhill since I was there 4 years ago, it's really just fine...

I mean if you're paranoid about ever having anything happen to you, sure, don't go there. But honestly you should be more worried about heart disease than murder.
It's probably undefined behavior, but this crashes nicely for me:

int (*main)(int, char**) = 0;
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Coding bootcamps serve a very niche, often already well off (relative to the other 6 billion people) people.

The basics of education are not being delivered well enough to empower the other 9 out of every 10 children who don't even have access to the basics.
Hmm, I wonder who it was
Off topic but the word/prefix "cyber" is so cool. I wish it was used more, like the "e-" prefix for internet applications.
Mmmmmmmmmaybe? ;)
Well one reason is because it's so hot there there is almost no chance to find life or to build a station there. Also I wonder if it is because the Russians set to explore it, landed a probe on it and all. So maybe then it became uninteresting to follow in their footsteps. Just like the Russians stopped sending rovers to the moon once Americans landed there.
To anyone who is interested, I highly recommend a pair of cheap 7x50 binoculars (easily $50 or less) for beginner stargazing.

The wider field of view, ease of use, and immersion with both eyes makes it really great for starting out, as compared to a telescope. There are also some great apps out there to help you know what you are looking at.

You may even see some pretty cool stuff from your backyard. Two of my favorites are the Andromeda Galaxy and the Pleiades.
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Please make an alternative computer science DEGREE, YES with a DEGREE (equivalent to brick and mortar) that is affordable and suitable for working adults
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What's worth more, inventing something or commercializing it? It sounds a bit like USA vs Israel. Israel invents a lot while the US commercializes on a bigger scale.

If the US isn't very good at developing new products because of burdensome regulations, small market size, slowness, demographics, etc. then maybe it's just not very good at technology. Other countries are bad at technology because of poor education, access to finance, skill of workers, culture, etc. They're still bad at technology, whatever the reason.
The Chinese government is working hard to decrease pollution, not add additional stress on the power grid. Incentives change when you're the one responsible for all the externalities.
Should've used left-pad.
For tons of languages other than English case sensitivity is a more complicated affair and handling it in the file system is a dumb idea. Further since your system could interact with systems that including files created by a computer not a person you want them to be able to deal with afile and Afile properly.
Was with Microsoft for 6 years and ever since I left Microsoft,this is something I felt missed.This tool was available inside Microsoft was for long time ,used for very hard to track bugs or issues in almost any technology Microsoft produces.I have used time travel debugging to debug asp.Net issues a lot.Having it publicly available is simply awesome. Some things you can do
1. Record trace from any machine where the issue is happening.
2. Now take this trace to your machine where symbols and source code is aligned and start debugging
3. While debugging you can debug back and forth easily and get stacktrace,get local variables,parameters etc.
4.You can put break point if a particular variable is read/write.
5.Use all the windbg extension commands like sos,psscor etc.

It does produce large trace files while recording so running it for long time was not advisable. However it had a circular trace feature where you can keep it running with a buffer size if the issue is intermittent. Also debugging requires bit of Assembly level knowledge
Easily avoided, just don't do that. I've never encountered such.
Enjoying reading your posts in this article.

Institutions are definitely worried about their relevance and scared that they are going to be cut out.

The majority of students today anyways, are not self-directed and self-guided learners.

Instructors in my mind remain essential. How much non-essential stuff instructors teach may change.

I have experienced building and delivering high school curriculum for diploma credit online, and notice something quite different from post-secondaries.

Post-secondary institution seem, at times to act like their gig is up of making students take courses they don't really need. I'm grossly oversimplifying the underlying issues that lead to this.

Instructors who care about providing a better learning experience than a PDF loaded into Moodle destined to add little to no value are my heroes today. If our games and apps are better than the digital learning experiences, the producers of digital education (institutions) are in for a rude awakening.
Lol SQL is making a comeback? It never left.
No, "all organizations" are not adopting Spark. You do not need Spark to use dataframes. And distributed computing is terrible for machine learning.

Maybe you've worked at a job or two where nobody can comprehend not using distributed computing, as you describe, but it's nonsense to claim that "all organizations" work that way.
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WeChat became one of the main mobile consumer platforms in China. It seems weird/different than elsewhere, because it's a chat app. It's basically just a different UX for the homescreen.

Comparing WeChat to WhatsApp on feature count is big time apples to oranges.
If there were only 1 channel on TV, that channel would be very popular!

If Google or Facebook were given a monopoly on chat by the US government, and hardly anyone had credit cards, then their wallets would be universally popular too.

WeChat isn't going to get much market penetration outside of China because it's just not very good. At least that's my opinion, as someone who's forced it use it in China.
So the long and short of it is SQL would be a good common language for relational and NoSQL style databases.

I would agree with that, but since they different monsters (RDBMS and NoSQL), it will take a bit of tweaking to find a good dialect (how do joins work, etc). Of course it makes sense to adapt the NoSQL databases to the existing ANSI SQL rather than make existing ANSI SQL users switch to a new type of SQL that accommodates NoSQL, but we'll see what happens.

Google create a "Standard SQL," but I'm not familiar with it.

Here is a link on Google Standard SQL:

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sq...
And the Fetch API, has, according to caniuse[1], 76% support. I don't know that I can disregard 1 out of every 4 users, hence, jQuery.

For some things, like those mentioned by twhb, where support is >90%, sure, ditch the library and use the supported stuff. But I don't think all of jQuery is that well supported, yet, and/or has as decent an interface.

[1]: https://caniuse.com/#search=fetch
Wow what an improvement all around, thanks for that. Some of the empty lots are still there but fenced off and with far less blight.
> 'false information spread through electronic and social media'

I was about to make a "Ministry of Truth" kind of comment until I re-checked the article: "Market manipulation schemes involving false information spread through electronic and social media"
Does anyone remember Basic-4 systems?

I transferred several programs, in those days and on that system with a maximum of six characters for the name, from one machine to another via magtape. One was named "CR" (customer report or credit report, who knows). It disappeared on the new system because it was mistaken for the Card Reader.
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Why not just design for deep sea exploration or nuclear applications directly? It's a heck of a lot cheaper to test prototypes in the ocean than on Venus.
>let a dictator kill a bunch of his own people

It turns out [1] that the claims of Libyan genocide were false.
There were other choices than "do nothing" or "help the rebels".
For example, a reasonable decision would have been to thoroughly, carefully and accurately investigate the genocide claims.

[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/29/hillary-clin...
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It might be okay if it was clearly explained and legit.
Had forgotten about this - thanks for sharing it!
It's not one versus the other. That's like suggesting JSON is going to 'beat' HTML. They're different tools for different jobs and both are used alongside each other to great effect.
I heard that but then I wonder how much better is that than just a space station.
Yes. That's why iOS doesn't have flash.
Absolutely amazing, very neatly laid out.

Thank you so much for your efforts.
Which is a lot easier toeasure than long running CPU usage unfortunately (at least not without privacy concerns - e.g. getting real world data from users)
Cyber is short for cybersex in some minds which makes official statements and words sound funny.

Was just thinking about how cool it must be for Gibson to have pulled a term like cyberspace out of his head years ago and for it to be such a widely used term now.

Edit, found video interview... https://youtu.be/ae3z7Oe3XF4
Because nosql is hype and snake-oil. Barely usable tools to dump startups on ignorant investors.
But when I go to a website I expect to get the content. I don't expect the owner to use my computer for mining. That seems like unauthorized use to me.
They are two of the major ones with multiple facilities. That doesn't bode well for the industry.

Also, kudos on grundles. That is my new favorite word.
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Moreover: you know how someone is going to behave...because of their race.

ST is the most racist show ever.
Hm, now I think about it, what exactly are you outraging about? It's not like buying ads on Facebook or influencing people by showing them texts or pictures is illegal.

Hacking attempts, yes, are a big problem. Facebook ads - not a problem at all.
Since when did anyone who wanted control of the system use a Mac? Their entire history has been about limiting control. That was always their advantage - for consistent design, easy to use, security, etc. Those are good things people want. Hackers have Linux.
>much less a bigger framework

So do you primarily write server side web apps? Anything slightly more sophisticated on the front-end beyond imperative jQuery calls, requires a framework, to organize your logic, and to scale up to a team level where multiple devs can contribute to the same front-end codebase.
I wonder if the restricted names are still with us in ReFS? I don't have one handy to check it on, but it seems like if there were ever a good time to break backwards-compatibiliy, ReFS would be it.
Tutoring could be a way to break this model - if suitably equipped tutors can boost the existing systems of student performance beyond what the education system can do with it's resources, some good questions would arise.

The article makes reference to breaking.

Very little has changed in online education in the past 20 years. I feel it's a lot of BS, videos get prettier, devices get a little more powerful, but it's the same stuff being hawked in the mid 90's.
But thats not the direction communist china has been taking. It has been opening more and more since the 70s
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"We lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume!"
Maybe not Haskell itself but very likely a derivative.

Look at it this way. ReactJS is functional programming but in JS. The natural home of this way of building UI is in a ML like language. Can already be done in purescript for example.

Once people get their heads around react and reduces, changing to a type system like ML will yield obvious advantages
Near, thanks. I'd had it explained to me, but had long since forgotten.

It was very different to go there in person. I expected an undercurrent of political unrest and dismay with the things like censorship. It really didn't seem like I met anyone willing to vocalize serious displeasure.
Awesome. I'm always curious why the mechanisms by which the general public can engage in a reasonable ROI are so limited. Stocks/equity as the primary avenue for investment are so abstract and often far removed from the actual value, it too often feels like you're just investing in a magical gamble.
The organizational structure of many US government organizations still seems strange to me.

The DHS's restructure after 9/11 seemed to make sense (from my viewpoint as an outsider) even if it looks like they outsourced the branding of it to the 3rd Reich.

The Secret Service has dual roles of protection of certain officials and their families and investigating financial crimes. I understand the Secret Service's history as a sub-department of the Department of the Treasury made sense, but it still seems weird to have two very different, yet very specialized roles.

And then there's this weird new requirement that very many US Government departments have their own tactical officer squads. Can't we just have a National Police (a merged FBI, US Marshals, etc)? The current silo system reeks of each silo budget hoarding.

All of this to say: The SEC now needs to compete with the other branches of government to hire the best InfoSec people at a time when companies are investing more in the same space. If only the NSA was more focused on defending our government's systems, we could free up other government resources to work on the non-redundant functions.
Many people doing AI/ML right now are not using Windows. By asking them to move to Visual Studio you are implicitly asking them to move to Windows. Only by doing that you are making it extremely difficult to adopt such technology.
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Favourite author by a long shot, but I wish he'd give the endless sex scenes a rest. We can do a space opera without his weird fantasies about zero-G boning with a space princess.

Also Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained are fantastic, towards the second half of JU I could not put it down - literally took a day off work to finish it.
Not just the heat, but also the sulphuric acid rain and the 90atm of pressure. I do find it odd though, that this curious planet with heaps of activity is so often 'passed over' by space nerds.

Curiously, the earliest out-of-lab digital photography that I'm aware of was from that Russian probe to Venus in the 70's, which lasted less than an hour in the hostile atmosphere.

Photos: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/mission_page/VN_Vene...
Nice!

I wish I saw the battery size on each listing over by the price and mileage though. One of the first ones I ready even said it was both a 60 and a 90 in the description.
If they actually open in response to some of the forces you name, great! More power to them. I, personally, think that would be their best move in terms of global competitiveness over the next 100 years.

But it takes some major cynicism to actually consider the moral impact of USA vs China on a global stage comparable. They are much quieter about their international adventurism, but they have a decades long history of protecting and supporting bad actors. Whatever the failure of the USA, North Korea would not be a new breakout nuclear power threatening to become the most likely scenario for nuclear war without major backing and even encouragement from China. China also has multiple ongoing, top-down, programmed genocides happening in several territories, including cultural and institutional colonization of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

And that's not even raising the question of who's political values are better, both morally and strategically, for the human race.

I understand why cynicism with the US (and the whole West in general) is high... but let's keep things in perspective here.
SQL wins because big iron wins. At the end of the day, the big, clunky, slow, complicated, aggravating, old systems stick around because they are built to stick around.

Looking at, say, an eventually consistent distributed decentralized kv store, one might be tricked into believing it's simple enough to deploy with enough nodes and general enough interfaces that you can build a complicated system on top of it if needed, and rely on its supppsed simplicity and scalability the rest of the time. But nobody tells you about the shitty implementation. The replication that doesn't resume, the stodgy transfers, the imbalanced distribution, the consensus conflict, the infinitely expanding disk, the churning CPU. How at scale, if all the other aspects of your infra aren't scaling along with your data size, the whole thing blows.

Traditional SQL databases end up being many times simpler in practice, and because of their inherent scaling limitations, much easier to manage. And most importantly: their implementations aren't buggy.

SQL is just more reliable.
I do find the amusing "backronym" rather hard to take at face value. I also found the old critics of SQL databases odd focus on the query language hard to take. The problem wasn't the queries, per se. The problem was the power of the queries for interactive uses and how that doesn't scale up.

That is, the problem with most SQL databases is that you need some pretty specialized knowledge in order to construct good queries. Not shockingly, the problem with most modern key/value (or otherwise) datastores is that you need some pretty specialized knowledge in order to construct good queries.

Now, for things getting off the ground, this is probably fine. Most of the places you will go south with queries is in the ad-hoc style query. Of course, that style query is perfect for interactive use. Ideal, even. It falls on its face if it is supposed to support an automated case at high TPS. Unfortunately, automated cases at low TPS often turn into automated cases at high TPS. Worse, interactive cases at ridiculously low tps often turn into automated cases at low TPS. Which, of course, just feeds itself.

How this feeds itself, of course, is you can explore your data much more effectively if there is an ad-hoc query engine. So, we are now seeing the resurgence of ad-hoc queries and the learning that those can lead to some powerful insights.
yeah I should have included the full context, but I think it could end up being a gray line. It's something to keep an eye on because the difference between market manipulation and trolling/FUD could be hard to distinguish.
School has played a socialization role for kids and a role in the community - teachers have often been role models, and education has often extended beyond the subjects taught, to, at its best, teaching deeper life skills.

And then of course there are various troubled or at-risk populations of students where no amount of educational technology will help because they come from broken homes and underserved communities.

This is not to denigrate the idea of Education Startups, but rather, to point out the broader scope of "education".
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I am downvoting this for... failure to provide citation :D
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Most data is relational. If you put relational data in a NoSQL database you end up writing an API that is similar to SQL.
My response to "your first car?" is a plausible-for-someone-a-generation-older-than-I-am make and a completely made-up model. The same with all my other security questions; the data fits what is being asked for but is almost completely fictional. That's "good enough" for me.