skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do community colleges or high schools ensure that they don't get stuck in the 1980s? Teaching is, or at least could be, its own profession with its own duty to stay current.

We are really debating a line drawing exercise. Scholars have to teach Phd students because they are the only ones that know the material that phd students are learning. Even if a particular scholar or scholars in general are bad at pedagogy it doesn't matter, there's no other option. On the hand high school American history can be taught by people that aren't themselves historians. We can select people that are good at and like teaching instead of having no choice but to use the people whose passion is investing the marriage rituals of late 17th century puritan farmers.

My contention is that the vast majority of undergraduate coursework is on the high school American history side of the line. Those arguing on the other side don't generally argue that e.g. intro to partial differential equations -- a sophomore / junior level course for majors -- needs to be taught by someone publishing in the field of mathematics. That only someone on the cutting edge understands it well enough to teach it to others. Rather they make some rather mystical and anecdote driven claims about how such professors are inherently superior at imparting this knowledge than would be professors that were selected for, and spent their time honing, their skills in teaching rather than their skills in publishing.

It's a rather extraordinary claim that selecting for exactly the qualities we are looking for would produce inferior outcomes to selecting for some other tenuously related quality, so it requires a fair bit of evidence.
Us? Fuck you and your stupid friends who were dumb enough to even CONSIDER using Tinder.
It's a complicated relationship.
While there does seem to be an abundance of free capital, it doesn't seem to be fueled by the kind of reckless lending that fueled the 2008 housing crisis, so there might be a crash, but IMO its unlikely to bring down the entire civilization as we know it.

However, there might be something else going on... I wonder if China's efforts to prop up its economy? It would be interesting if someone could tell me where all this capital is coming from.
I was referring to extensions to the command set the OS uses to interact with the drive itself. Some of these are quite like a madvise() call, but at a lower layer. Others permit the drive to expose a bit more information to the OS so that it can better optimize its IO patterns. I summarized the most recently standardized changes at [1], but there are several other features in the NVMe spec [2] that fall into this category. The extension for IO determinism has been approved for the next standard but the official spec for it hasn't been published. (I'm referring here mostly to NVMe stuff, but there are SCSI/SAS analogs to many of these features.)

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/11436/nvme-13-specification-p...

[2] http://www.nvmexpress.org/resources/specifications/
Well if all moral perspectives are valid then you should not use morality as the foundation of your argument.
> ... until the guidelines and mod tools evolve to actually make them work here.

I think the "until" is "until all readers of this site share a single sociological view on controversial issues and/or lose all interest in having their view heard." Asking your moderation tools to solve societal problems or prevent a discussion forum from reflecting a raging societal debate is trying to hide from the problem.

> it only takes 2-3 misogynist trolls to create a 300-comment shitshow

I get what you mean, but would argue that, "it only takes 2-3 trolls plus 300 people who respond to them to create a 300-comment shitshow". An ignored troll is a powerless troll. They get their power to disrupt from the responses, not their words.
> The content produced there is better in some ways, worse in many.

Could you provide some examples of how the content is better there? I'd be interested, but any time I've ever tried to investigate, I can't get past all the unfettered crap
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Hence why I said somewhat active, and ended my post with "I do recognize that it's not enough and we all need to basically go back pre-industrial lifestyles to really make enough of a change to matter."

What are some things that you are doing?
Intelligence is the capacity to climb a large variety of dominance hierarchies, and to create new ones. Women value status in these hierarchies and that is the link AFAICT.
The ecosystem is a much bigger deal. There's an officially supported python library for every SaaS product on the market, and many libraries that are best-in-class in areas like data science. It takes minutes to write to pdfs, make graphical charts, edit images, and a million other nuancy, minor parts of apps that you want, but don't want to spend a ton of time writing.

Java is the only static language that features roughly equivalent levels of support ecosystem wide.
paging gwern!

* for context, he's got a lot on his site about n-back:

https://www.gwern.net/DNB-FAQ

https://www.gwern.net/DNB-meta-analysis
The first day or two of what?
Just to piggy back on this, many of these companies are skipping IPO's because there's enough private equity to give them the funds they needs. Previously this wasn't the case.
The row count is puzzling, yes. There simply are not that many property-owning South African citizens.

Some expats are known to be in that data. Then there are the rows marked deceased.

But as others have pointed out, so many South African citizens (out of the circa 55 million) are poor and are not property owners. The 60 million rows of data hasn't been comprehensively accounted for yet.
Above you posit the behavior you observe is due to a change in HN membership taste or some kind of deal between HN and NYT. I think the former is the easier to support: people often comment on changes on site membership. You appear to be giving more credence to the latter without evidence, which amounts to accusations of shillage. If you've got something firm, by all means, present it. If not, please abide by the guidelines which ask us not to engage in unsubstantiated accusations: generally this is applied with respect to other organizations, but I think HN should be given the benefit of the doubt here as well.
I have just skimmed the article, but even from this short contact I could see
the nice idea of passing structured logs through a data bus and reacting to
events found on this bus. This is something distinct from all the approaches
people use around the world.

This is how I think monitoring and log collection should work like. I'm not
convinced that Salt is the correct tool for being a data bus, but there aren't
many tools that can be used this way as a central subsystem of a monitoring
system, so whatever works is OK, I guess.
The VirtualBox process is notified of Windows shutdown and power management events. It can choose to save the state or "power down" the guest OS. There is a setting to manage the default action to take, but it doesn't seem to work reliably.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#idm9348
How about Gutenblog? :)
>> If everyone in society had a college degree, they wouldn't increase salary by $80k.

Free education doesn't mean that everyone has a college degree. It means that everyone who chooses to study for a college degree has the opportunity to obtain one.

Most colleges and universities in the USA were non-profit, until the 1970's. Everyone didn't have a college degree back then.

Finally, as an aside- it's a bit problematic to measure the value of a college degree just by monetary gains alone. Job satisfaction is at least as important and probably more.
What notions of dating on Tinder are socially conservative?

At least 50% of the people on there are on there to get laid (the women, too). I'd say about 10% of the profiles you come across are polyamorous/transgender individuals, which would have been unheard of 10 years ago. And that's in the middle of the Bible Belt.
I had the fortune of growing up in a sparsely-populated, rural part of Southern Ontario. I didn't think so at the time, but looking back I almost envy my younger self.

Whenever you went swimming in a creek or river that wasn't Lake Erie, and the water wasn't rushing too quickly at that spot you had to be damned careful about snapping turtles. There were also a lot of beavers. Coyotes could be dangerous if they got hungry, but usually ran away. You'd hear of the odd wolf venturing down, but that was not common -- too many farms. There was a large population of deer.

I always joke about the county fair we had down there, too. I like to say that's where I milked my first goat. Which is true... but it was also, thankfully, my last.
and no Scala.
Finally, they added java (seems like the openjdk has all the same stuff as the oracle's Java). That was the only thing stopping me from using it.
I'm pretty sure they both operate at a loss or at least come very close to breaking even. There is a 0% chance Uber or Lyft make "billions" in _profit_ every year.
Have you tried again after upgrading to gnome-shell 3.26 (it's only been in Debian unstable for one week)?
From what I've heard, Samsung Internet Browser is trying to lead the way with WebVR (Virtual Reality).

https://webvr.rocks/samsung_internet
>The current uniformity predates GMOs, it stems from F1 hybrids that are effectively clones, and the legislation that makes it practically illegal to sell or plant non-patented seeds.

Granted.

But in the grand scheme of things, this is as equally an astonishingly new situation as is mechanized agriculture. A hundred years ago, most people lived and worked on farms; now it's like 1% or something like that.

I know that Monsanto's shareholders need to make rivers of dosh, boatloads of cash, money hand over fist, but I don't understand how in practice they've managed to get a vice-grip on everybody's family jewels.
As a customer of ride sharing services that's become accustomed to VC subsidizing my rides, this is great news.
That's why it is valuable.

Changing "impressionable" to "manipulable" makes this point clearer.
How Pirelli Uses Domino and Plotly for Smart Manufacturing
Introducing the Natural Language Processing Library for Apache Spark
I particularly like the parallelism between %% for errors and ?? for nullables. Very elegant! I'm surprised I haven't seen that done before.

It's very much in the Go style of "do the minimum needed to solve specific problems" but at first glance Zig looks much more cohesive than Go.
First Ubuntu to work out of the box on the 2013 (trashcan) Mac Pro I use at work. I'm seriously impressed!
You need a better carrier then. I have unlimited data and no tethering fee on Verizon, and similar plans are available on other carriers as well.
One thing that surprises me is how old science/engineering videos were friend and down to earth. 40s army or bell labs, and this one too, is layman approachable and enjoyable. It's chrome free, ceremony free, yet shows rare subjects (who remembers the photophone ?)
he means Google
> They will be condemned to the bad ideas pile with table based layouts and Flash sites, with the latter, they share a lot of similarities.

That's what I don't get about SPAs' popularity: they're just as bad as Flash sites, but at least with Flash everything was self-contained, and very, very few people tried to do everything in Flash (and those who did were roundly mocked for it).

But now it's 2017, and every time one comments 'why does Blogger require me to execute code in order to view text & images?' some kid will say, 'hey grandpa, get off the Internet so the rest of us can get work done!'

The mass adoption of HTML+CSS+JavaScript is, I'll grant, a massive leap forward in terms of pragmatism but a massive leap backward in terms of privacy, security, usability, performance and sanity.
> it doesn't seem to be fueled by the kind of reckless lending that fueled the 2008 housing crisis

How do you know that? The 2008 was led by public borrowing. This might be led by bigger investors borrowing or figuring out "schemes" to leverage themselves.

Either way, what we know and are certain of, is that US stocks are rallying. Not quite hard to worry, but they are showing signs of bubbly like behavior. It'll be time for the "larger public" to take notice and plunge themselves.
On my iphone, at least, the monospace section cuts off after ~20 characters and you have to drag back-and-forth to horizontally scroll the rest into view. Landscape mode helps, but not much.
Microsoft, Google, Mozilla are putting all their web API docs in one place
So one perspective is that a lot of development these days is combining existing libraries with glue code to meet a need. I wonder how much of the future will be combining microservice APIs with affordable micro transactions to meet a need.
Show HN: Top Crypto Books – A List of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Books
Chad Kroeger. Nobody would ever come near it again.
The users are deciding. We are flagging these stories because we don't see the value in endless flamewars over the same subject. If you can't get enough of debates about sexism in SV there are lots of other places on the internet for that.
It depends on the app whether screenshots work. Some apps use the GNOME screenshot API and are fine; other apps assume X.
I don't... don't really get why the above poster's observation is not inline given national graduation rates for CS. Seems within the expected distribution, no?

> Can we really assign the disparity solely to microaggressions against women? Would we feel the same if the split were 75/25,or 51/49? What is the threshold of equality with respect to noise?

Why don't you use your powerful male thoughts to do some basic bayesian modeling and come up with some proposals? Many people have so maybe you can borrow their work, if that sounds like too much effort.

But hey, to do an analysis we need some data! Let me provide you with a recent and impartial source: https://nsf.gov/statistics/2016/nsb20161/#/

Here's a fun one: Stats suggest in the US that men:women declare majors ~3:1 across all engineering disciplines but ~2:1 in computer science at the outset. However, when we look at graduation rates proportional to the whole of their class in 2016 we saw: computer sciences (17.9%), engineering (19.3%), physical sciences (39%) and mathematics (43.1%).

Computer science has an abnormally high attrition rate despite a increased chance of declaration for major. Other similarly complex and abstract disciplines such as mathematics (which CS leans upon heavily to get any real work done) do not have such a falloff.

So gosh. Where do YOU draw the line? Care to show us the work for how you derived it? I'd love to know.

I could probably get numbers for major vocational education startups. I think I might go pursue that. Since many of those are online, they'll have less noise from on-campus harassment.
I remember reading about Blondie24, a program that learned to play checkers at a high level without human input. It was based on neural network and genetic algorithm technology. From the Wikipedia entry: "The significance of the Blondie24 program is that its ability to play checkers did not rely on any human expertise of the game. Rather, it came solely from the total points earned by each player and the evolutionary process itself." [1].

In addition to numerous journal articles, the creators wrote a lay-person book on their creation: Blondie24: playing at the edge of AI, by David B. Fogel [2].

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie24

[2]. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=501597
It doesn’t wrap on mobile and you have to scroll horizontally to read it all.
Probabilistic Machine Learning: Foundations and Frontiers
I've been happily using sway everywhere I've found it to be stable. At the moment that's every machine I have access to that has intel or AMD graphics. I think my one system with nouveau graphics may be ready to convert from i3 also, since I've been trying it periodically and it seems to be OK. The one machine I'm still scared to touch has to use nvidia because it flat-out refuses to work with nouveau. At any rate, I'm quite pleased with sway. It's compatible with i3 to the point that I often forget which one I'm using.
Is it? I don't mean "reading randomly, out of order" nor do I mean skipping to the end to read spoilers (though some people, puzzingly, do just that). I mean randomly reading parts I've already read. I assume a lot of people's reading habits are similar to mine.
If you want lots of customization and are friendly with Python I would suggest rolling your own project with Flask and Flask-Freeze. You get all the benefits of complete customization from URLs to templated pages and scripts. Really anything. While this isn't a canned solution, it is a really robust solution.
Slides: http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-forum/frontiers-of...
Well, I'm not presenting an objective argument. I am presenting a subjective opinion.
I've used this off and on for a while, but the hardest thing for me is breaking the google habbit (or ddg as often as not in my case) and actually performing the search on that site.

I can !dd with duckduckgo to get to devdocs, but I wish there was some natural language processing that knew I wanted to look up a cpp/rust what have you term and send me there.

Additionally, C# doesn't seem to be included, which is a big bummer.
Most conversation on this topic is occurring in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508603
There are some decent electron apps like Atom and Slack.
Is that quantitatively different than AIM, YahooIM, ICQ, etc.?
Also being discussed in the thread "Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508603
I've done the Duolingo Spanish tree, and my feeling was the same as the author's regarding "% fluency," which I thought was kind of a joke. Especially for speaking and listening, there's really no substitute for immersion and real-life regular interactions.

But I do feel that Duolingo was honestly pretty good about helping me to read and write. In NYC there's a little ambient Spanish everywhere and I went into it not with the goal of being fluent, but just being able to read signs and understand a little bit here and there. (I haven't kept up with it and now I've forgotten a good chunk, but I'd say that's a different issue.)

At least in my case, it's also been a good entry point because it's free and convenient. I'm actually working on Duolingo's in-beta Czech tree (significant other's family is partially Czech) and it's actually been an inspiration for me to inquire about in-person classes, especially knowing that if I ever want to hold conversations, I will need to have real-life speaking experience. I probably wouldn't have done this if I hadn't started off on Duolingo and had some fun with it!
I'm somewhere between you and the parent. So much of the public square, figuratively speaking, is owned by private companies today. It's good to understand what the parameters are so you can know to what extent free expression and the free flow of ideas is occurring in a particular venue. Personally, I'm wary of just about any form of censorship, but I recognize it's a continuum, and not even I have my settings at 0.
> People should never, under any circumstance, procreate

The human race would have a serious problem in about 70 years if we all adopted this approach.

> Certainly, sentencing someone to such a world is the worst of all crimes, and a serious moral violation.

If the "feedback" is in fact genuine I feel for him/her but to associate the unfortunate aspects of their life as a "sentence" by the parents is particularly selfish IMO.

No parent wants their child to suffer, and to imply they should have foreseen the situation and just not had the child is quite selfish and doesn't consider the anguish the parents must feel as they see the child they raised in misery.
It's fixed width at a tiny fraction of the screen width. Reading each line requires manually scrolling from start to end of the line, and then back to the beginning, seeing maybe 2-3 words at a time.
Mir is still used for some of Canonical's IoT products. Since Canonical has paying customers, it's worthwhile to continue maintaining it.
Alphabet Unit Leads $1B Investment in Lyft
It only works with compositors. For an introduction on the client perspective, I have another article you can read:

https://drewdevault.com/2017/06/10/Introduction-to-Wayland.h...

For rendering clients will generally either use shared memory and dump pixels buffers into it, or will use shared EGL handles.
Can anyone share his/her experience with Wayland? I'm on Arch, using i3wm, and have thought about switching to Wayland, but I'm not sure what problems I will encounter, and I would love to not have to spend a weekend to fix or revert back to X11 if things are still immature. Has anyone used it daily for a decent amount of time?
2017 Emerging Technology Domains Risk Survey [pdf]
I agree in general that generations should be more supportive of each other, because most of us will go through all stages anyway. But, as usual, the problem with redistribution of money is how to set it up to prevent perverse incentives. (And a higher-level problem is, even if you find the proper algorithm, how to make it politically acceptable.)

For example, I would like to support the smart and diligent kids that could be my doctors one day. However, the straightforward approach "tax adults, support schools, duh" also supports many things I disagree with. First, with more money flowing to schools, schools simply get more expensive, without necessarily increasing quality. Second, it makes no difference between useful education, e.g. the doctors, and useless education, such as... uhm, maybe it is better to avoid specific examples, but you probably can imagine a few.

Similarly, not all "old people" are the same. I'd rather support a former doctor than a former criminal, for example.

On the opposite side, the cultural norm of children supporting their parents also has its problems. Some people may be completely irresponsible, have dozen kids, abuse them, and then feel entitled to their support. Other people may contribute a lot to the society, but they happen to be infertile, or their kids happen to die in an accident.
Remapping `K` to devdocs.vim is quite handy.

https://github.com/rhysd/devdocs.vim
> like Google -> to google

Hang on! Surely, "to google" refers to performing a search specifically with Google, right?
> Evidently you're in Utah, USA.

> It's good to mention actual location, rather than 'around here', for people that don't know where you are.

Why? What difference would that have made? Either the bars exist where the parent lives or they don't. My location has nothing to do with that. I only mention that they're common in my area as a "maybe they're common enough to also be found where you are" data point.

> McDonalds are pretty much everywhere - that means they're popular, by definition, however most discerning consumers wouldn't consider them a high quality product.

What's your point? Are you saying that the Endangered Species bars are low quality because they happen to be popular(-ish) in my area?

> Is the 'much less bitter' quality of this bar you're referring to a result of a higher ratio of sugars?

Possibly. I don't really know enough about the respective bars to really speak to that. I wonder, though, if it's not something in the manufacturing process since all Lindt (even the "sweet" bars) have the same sour/acidic flavor to me.
I specifically like the similarity between ?? and %% -- they do do similar things! -- so please keep that in some way if you can.
Are you asking why Whatsapp is better than Windows Live Messenger?
WSL at least makes it a lot easier to maintain the ruby environment and keep it up to date (especially for tracking GitHub Pages) as you can follow Ubuntu instructions. Jekyll is definitely my largest use for WSL.