skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you eat Usain Bolt?
Your downvotes prove my point. Popularity is a hell of a drug.
That's why there is offline mode.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375012?co=GENIE.Pla...
Kilpatrick contra Montessori:
I'd call the 70 page critique quite specific. Quote: "The Montessori child learns
self-reliance by free choice in relative isolation
from the directress. He learns in an individualistic fashion to respect the rights of his neighbors.
The kindergarten child learns conformity to
social standards mainly through social pressure
focused and brought to bear in a kindly spirit by
the kindergartner." Clearly the writings of a hater ;)

> There isn't much difference between the insights of Montessori and Piaget.

How a child learns, what big influence self interest and self control are is quite similar between the both. I personally also agree. The immense impact and usefulness of Piagets stages of cognitive development are orginally his and not to be found in Montessoris Teachings.

> Piaget was a great scientist who conducted systematic experiments with countless children. Your claim that he only observed his own 3 children is a lie.

Well, it's a hyperbole based on Ginsburg & Opper, 2004. I included the hyperbole b/c i thought it might come up after i brought up Piagets name. His well-respected and often built upon work is often criticized because of lack of initial sample size, reliance on language as critical examination tool and some stages don't develop in all and/or most children like he predicted.

His work was still a giant leap.

> That last reference you provide is some obscure German PhD thesis which does not reference Montessori's work at all; it has a major focus on teaching mentally retarded children, as well as teaching mathematics out of books to children older than the ones that go to Montessori schools (starting at age 3).

The Author of this thesis is one of the most respected scientists in germany relating to pre-numeric Mathematics. Teachers for mentally retarded children had to think about pre-numeric mathematics long before it became fashionable for younger kids. She based her work on Piaget and Vygotsky. Its quite my point that she didn't base it on Montessori.
A bit too difficult to digest, I know. Would lab grown human meat have any other "applications"?

“Certain species of flatworm have been gradually taught to run a maze. If you grind them up and feed them to a second batch of flatworms, the second batch can run the maze on the first try.” — Peter O’Toole, Phantoms (1998)

There have been successful experiments to show that some animals may be able to acquire knowledge (memory transfer) through cannibalism. http://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/06/memory-transfer.aspx

You know, eat a cube of Steve Jobs to see calligraphy in a new light.
Well, what's the alternative to free expression? State sanctioned expression ala China? I don't think that's better.
How dystopian. Its ironic, how as technology improves, things often get worse, because the cheapest, worse, solution becomes too cheep, and reasonable solutions cannot compete. It is no harder for us, today, to install windows in prefab buildings, than it was 10 years ago, but the windowless shipping container has gotten so cheep, that the window becomes a considerable cost. It is like how 30 years ago, most businesses had a telephone line and was easy to contact but today, the idea of having an actual telephone line and secretaries to answer the phone seems "too expensive". It wasn't any cheaper back then though.
Mistake is harsh. Limitation is better. Finding a.sample given a set of resources can be extremely difficult.
it's only even somewhat recent america. in the 70s and 80s I walked to school or rode the bus, as did the hundreds/thousands of other kids in the district. no doubt some kids were personally drive, or carpooled with other families, but it was a rarity. the parking lots simply couldn't have accommodated dozens/hundreds of car dropoffs/pickups, and it didn't happen. i don't quite know when this started...
I saw your email to the team and I have reply coming shortly (if it wasn't sent out already).

For context, for everyone on the thread. We had a wrap-up video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n69vkYvo9g) of the event that didn't have the MC's included and given they were the face of the event, it was a mistake that we made and we didn't have time to fix and are in the process of rectifying. We also had a dedicated video planned just for the MC's but it takes time to create and put together.
For one, the JVM is available on multiple platforms. Rather than requiring a project to target each of these platforms individually, they can target a single platform—the JVM.

There are plenty of people who dislike the JVM for any number of reasons (performance often being cited as one) and prefer to target specific platforms individually. Like many other things, it's a tradeoff, and people may arrive at different decisions depending on their priorities.
Is it worth sacrificing the good terms they're on with Intel? Also, there's no Thunderbolt on AMD right now, so it could only go in the MacBook, not the MacBook Pro.
Critical thought often requires intentional effort, even by those who value it. And many people that I come across do not even seem to value critical thought, especially when it comes to politics... to the contrary, there exists a movement promoting the idea that thinking is a practice that makes you some sort of elitist.
I don’t think 3 is that good for creatures that size. Commercially bred chicken are at 1.6, and for eggs it’s about 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio#Poultry)

If one slaughters pigs young enough, one can get under 3, too.
What critical thought? The electorate, especially on the right, as spoon-fed narratives and outrage pieces by pundits, analysts, talk-show hosts and entire news organizations. Information that doesn't fit the theme is downplayed or ignored; information that does is distorted, taken out of context or used in flawed ways - and this is naturally ignored by the audience.

For an easy, recent example, look at the Trump tax plan. This is constantly, repeatedly being sold as a "middle class tax cut". And yet it removes the estate tax, which only hits individuals with assets greats than 5.5 million or couples greater than 11 million. Cutting corporate taxes - why would this do anything? Corporate taxes are on profits, and if you're growing your business you aren't getting taxed anyway because you spend it instead - see Amazon and the whole "your margin is my opportunity" idea. How on earth would this lead to more growth? A doubled standard reduction, but other deductions are scrapped, mostly making things a wash; and a removal of the AMT, which hits the wealthy and some upper-middle class folk - none of this seems to really benefit the middle class, and you can pick that up merely by reading the proposal and some of the statements and analysis around it. (Just for good measure, the document itself: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4061905/Read-Pres... ).

And yet, the narrative of "middle class tax cuts" continues unabated. Maybe people don't have time to do the research; maybe they don't care, or maybe they don't feel qualified to contest experts and politicians. But the effect is that people make their decisions based on how they feel, and critical thought is largely non-existent.
Tahoe even seems more challenging because of the steep and windy roads.
I think in fact there is always a synergy effect to centralization and an efficiency effect to decentralization.

The synergy is quite obvious and explains why big companies and nations are able to survive in spite of the lack of efficiency.

The efficiency probably stems from a smaller (communication) distance between organization members.

The efficiency effect is IMO less well-known hence the comment but you're totally right. From that perspective the above-mentioned tactic amounts to a removal of synergy. If you look at it locally (and this point doesn't really apply to armies and companies but to, e.g., herds of animals), you also cut off the communication to the other herd members so it's a win-win from the predator side.
You brought up the broad concept of 'feminism' as an example and your comment was about people who go to either extreme, so I think I took your comment as being more anti-feminism then you meant it (no ingenuous meant to be dis'ed). I agree with your idea of how some people change beliefs but still keep the same extreme attitude.
The finder is proof that there is no god.
You’re wrong about Second Amendment rights
Don't extrapolate the safety of the neighborhoods you lived in to the safety of all neighborhoods. There are some in my city that I don't feel safe walking alone in as an adult.
Do you have specific examples? I know we frequently talk about the benefits of distribution and reach of the web in comparison to other platforms including Android.
Yea I was eliding some points to try and explain it better.
What's in Store for Technology Users?
That was sort of the parent's point: the sun is down for everyone leaving work in the winter. Moreover, it's surely been down for almost all of us for at least an hour, so an extra hour wouldn't really help.
I attended the event in person, and overall enjoyed it. But I keep wondering: is the reason Google wants us to squeeze our file sizes and page load time down to the bare minimum because they want to maximize the bandwidth available for more and larger ads?
The type checker has access to the source code (and any type annotations). That information isn't available at runtime, so I'm not sure how you'd be able to run the type checker at runtime.
I don't think there's the one real question. Of course you can always ask "So what?"
Horizon 2020 Work Programme from 2018 to 2020
Yeah, I watched it with my nine-year old son and even told him to not watch that part. He peeked and was really affected by it. It's not like you see much but you know what just happened and that was enough.

Got an earful from my wife about that choice. Heheh
if you recognize it as propaganda, it's not effective propaganda (on you)... if you dont notice the US's, then theirs is effective
- If I'm not mistaken Quicklisp does allow different versions of a package coexist.

- Hutchentoot is very popular. Haven't used though.

- If you want common lisp only, IDK, but Clojure has Datomic. Though wrt databases, I'd rather care about quality, not implementation language, because it's mission critical software.

- NearlyFreeSpeech.net has SBCL and GNU Guile. But it's shared hosting. It should be easy to put an interpreter binary on a VPS kind-of service though. For Heroku there's a pack on github, though I don't have the link.

The only Lisp project that I could further is my emacs.d, because that's what I really use. I think that's key to learning something, having a real use for it. I wish you luck in your lisp adventure!
https://infinitekind.com/syncspace is an infinite canvas app, though I’m not sure how well it works for sharing/teaching usecases
The Swirlds Hashgraph Consensus Algorithm: Fair, Fast, Byzantine Fault Tolerance [pdf]
> If you truly seek to understand the Montessori teaching method and materials, you should look into her writings, including the teacher's guides.

I have both German Mathematics Teachers Manuals right here. I work with her material nearly every day. My point is that there are better sources to base a mathematics game upon, not that her didactics are inferior (compared to what).

Still if i could choose if my son should go to a "normal" Teacher or a Teacher with a Montessori training i'd choose the latter.
Google is your friend. You should use it before you form opinions. Several studies outside of this have different population samples with similar results. Nice bias toward exclusive groups, though. Stay normal.
Amazon now has a billion-dollar ad business
More nonsense.

Evidence contra your second claim, that Piaget's "stages of cognitive development orginally his and not to be found in Montessoris Teachings": Montessori's theory of the sensitive stages [1] and the planes of development [2].

I'm not going to continue to argue with someone who willfully spreads lies (malicious "hyperbole") and poppycock.

[1] http://rmschool.org/content/sensitive-periods

[2] https://ami-global.org/montessori/quotes/four-planes-develop...
I agree with you, but... Apparently, this argument (against mandatory Western Civ) has been going on for years, and a few (3?) students went wild this year and disrupted class. There have been previous complaints and protests that did not disturb class.
http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/march2017/articles/feature...

However, to use their own language against them (because I get to hear this stuff on Turkey-Day)... it reeks of privilege.

I question whether the protest leaders even know what discrimination is. Have they been alone where they were truly a minority (by skin color or politics) or outside of their parents cocoon? It seems not, because they don't know how to get along even with people who largely agree with them... privilege. That they were allowed by the appropriately outraged staff/faculty to continue says it again.

Still, based on my recent experiences, these are not the majority of students at any college. Even the hotbed schools of such pop-protest need something else to get a larger group of their undergrad students out... that's why it takes an actual march of Nazi's on campus (or take back the night, TA unionization, etc) to get student protests in Berkeley... the city is more activist than the students.
China's timezone is calibrated for Shanghai. The western border is about two hours off of solar time ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#/media/File:Solar_ti... ). Compare China's +8:30 which border's India's +5:30.
I dont know what to tell you, I'm using the simplest possible project here. It just doesnt seem to pick up anything other than the entry.re file. I initially only had the non-webpack default compilation set up, which does compile all .re files but has the problem that the modules dont get loaded / no idea which order should be loaded.
So naturally I set up webpack but now it only watches the entry.re file for some reason.
And saying that the output js corresponds 1-1 with reason is really not true at all, especially when compiled into one big module with webpack.

https://i.imgur.com/hrxmjWl.png
I'm not surprised that as food delivery services gain popularity, restauranteurs are starting to realize that you can save a lot of money on rent and facilities, if you focus on a delivery-only model. Here in the US it's still mostly traditional restaurants doing delivery through seamless, grubhub, uber eats etc. but I'm sure this model is right around the corner.

Out of curiosity a while ago I tried looking into what it takes to be a seamless vendor and it seemed like they were mostly expecting established brick and mortar restaurants to sign up, rather than enterprising new ventures that exclusively sell through them.
Estonia e-residence program[1] is worth looking

[1]https://e-resident.gov.ee/
We have libxml2 bound in the stdlib with xpath support, do you need more?
Not easier to stick to economically though...
They also have a very detailed blog post about how their compiler works: https://crystal-lang.org/2015/03/04/internals.html
Quality != Quality
I'm curious, do restaurant kitchens usually have exterior windows? My mental image of them (surely mostly from TV) is not of a place with plenty of natural light.
> I’ve found it fascinating that people cannot coherently talk about a different nations moral failings without equivocating and falling back onto moral relativism and what-aboutism regarding how the US is just bad.

Translation: "USA, USA, USA, USA".

If you think about it not as a citizen or partisan but in terms of systems of human organization, the question to ask is: "Why is it that different nations with different cultures still manage to have some of the same moral blind spots?"

In this view, Hitler's concentration camps, Gitmo, and the Russian Gulag are all serving the same function. The difference is in magnitude.

The idea that citing equivalence is dishonest rests on the idea that magnitude is all that matters in moral issues. If Jerry Sandusky had only molested one child would he be a significantly better person than he is after molesting dozens? Sorry I don't really feel the need to canonize someone who unlike Sandusky only managed to victimize one person, nor would I feel the need to give Sandusky any credit if a person were discovered who had victimized thousands.

My point is that ugly things happen for a variety of reasons. All regimes (the US, NK, Russia, China, etc.) benefit in some way from identifying a class of people to imprison as political prisoners. The US is generally able to keep the number imprisoned fairly small and keep them overseas where they are out of sight and out of mind. Other nations are not able to manage this and must imprison more people.

Similarly, any spouse may benefit from intimidating the other spouse in some way. Some do it verbally, while others do it physically. Sure you can get on a moral high horse and say that only the physical form of intimidation is bad, that verbal threats are harmless. That's analogous to the idea that Gitmo is harmless but NK or Russia's treatment of political prisoners is deeply concerning.

Note that my argument is not that both are equally bad. They are not. My argument is that they are both bad enough that we have s much stronger moral duty to fix the problems at home before we focus our energy on politicizing similar issues abroad.
[Book] Avi Wigderson – Mathematics and Computation (Draft, October 25, 2017) [pdf]
A cable car transit system has been proposed in Austin to help with our traffic woes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wXRMq6laF8
How Floyd Mayweather Helped Two Young Guys from Miami Get Rich in ICO
i voluntierly sail alone for months in very small boat, i never understood why people start talking inanimate objects and such, i feel great alone and cut off, but ye in vast ocean you realise civilization is still just small pockets on earths surface
I don't have the authoritative answer or anything but just based on observation, I've noticed that there are (almost?) always one or two new articles with low vote counts on the front page. I assume it's so we don't need so many "knights of new" to make ensure that the content on the front page matches what the masses want to see.
> How dystopian

You're objecting to an aesthetic, not frankly anything of substance. Very few restaurant kitchens are particularly pleasant places to work, often cramped (because they take up square feet in prime real estate) and very hot. Three staff in a container seems comparatively spacious.

Also, when The Guardian struggles to find other fault than temperature and lack of appropriate council permits, that's about as strong a confirmation of adequate working conditions you're likely to find.
> currying has negative semantics and type system impact in a language with uncontrolled side-effects.

Can you explain this? Currying and side-effects seem orthogonal to me.
More material (lectures, talks, publications, etc) here: https://www.math.ias.edu/avi/book
It’s not a great architectural choice for most web apps though. I think the reason we’re stuck with it being the default is simply historical: the CGI script execution model, rise of PHP, etc.
Nowadays, that kind of "negligence" will get your children taken away and land you in jail.

That and other related/similar societal changes have me scared of having children. I would get locked up for spanking my kids' butt or letting them play outside or something like that.
I think the demonization you're referring to is rooted in the fact that he receives or takes credit for innovations he helped refine but definitely didn't invent. Where as the inventers receive little to no credit of appreciation for their contributions.
This is pretty fascinating, the about page sums it up http://sozi.baierouge.fr/pages/10-about.html .

Guessing it may also be possible to do some of the heavy lifting in another vector drawing app (e.g. sketch) then finish the presentation aspects in Inkscape/Sozi
I can categorically say no, that is not the reason. It's to make the web experiences better, instant and accessible and available to everyone.

There needs to be pressure on the entire ad industry (including Google's products) to not hurt the users experience with crappy and bloaty ads the ruin the hard work product teams make to build on the web. I do believe (I am biased as I am on the Chrome team) that the Chrome team want to do the right thing for the users of the web.
Online delivery supermarkets have made the same realisation (so-called dark stores), but a few years earlier.
The Ultimate Growth Hacking Resource – 2017
Yes, obviously, if they're right. Patriotism is not a virtue, if you're using the definition "blindly support whatever your country does". Sometimes it means "desire to make your country the best it can be", but I don't think that's what we're talking about here.
Just an aside but you actually want to do the counterintuitive thing and speed up on washboardy roads (provided it is safe to do so). Higher speed means your vehicle won't have time to be pulled down into dips letting you ride smoothly supported by the peaks.
Yes! it would take a lot of hard work to convert all my css3 selectors to xpath.
Well, I don't get out much, so I don't have those party chit chat experiences. Maybe that's the problem.
A jupyter to power point converter would be huge. I work in a typical organization where power point is expected, but my results come out of jupyter.
Alan Kay's Tribute to Ted Nelson at “Intertwingled” Fest (2014)
let's hope china (or somebody else) crushes their dreams. seeing the same big four dominate everything over and over and over is getting tiresome.

can GOOG/FB/AMZN die already?
Does reading stuff like this make anyone else weep for the future of humanity?

And, since this sort of thinking seems to be quite prevalent on HN: does anyone subscribing to this dystopian view of today's journalism care to provide a single example of a for-profit publisher that they consider high quality?

Because all I can think of when I read about "aggregate[d] timely facts" is the phone book.
I think at some point in this conversation everyone started to talk about different things.
What's even stranger is that your post is always auto-closed. No matter if I open it, log in, log out .. whatever. Whenever I reload this page, your post is auto-closed.
In Australia, Philips sell an LED bulb call SceneSwitch[1] (formerly Choose Scenes), which alternate between cool and warm white when switched off and back on. I've installed in all but the bedrooms.

1. https://www.philips.com.au/c-m-li/choose-a-bulb/sceneswitch
If I may ask a related question, how do lispers deal with the absence of a real boolean type in CL? My mind absolutely boggles at the prospect of not being able to tell the difference between null, false, and the empty list.

Am I missing something?
This making me a bit nauseous. Two things come to mind.
Can Deliveroo and the restaurants do things like this? Restaurants need to go through a food safety agency before they open followed by regular checks. What kind of checks or regulatory frames do these "Rooboxes" fall in? Is it another case of ignorance of the law in name of tech disruption? The whole "fake it till you make it".

I maybe wrong but isn't this kind of lying to the customers? While people are expecting "Takeaway Delivery from Premium Restaurants", as Deliveroo puts it, what they are getting is something from a place which isn't really the restaurant. Sure people have been trained but is it really the same?
Apple's Siri fails basic general awareness test in India
Crosses some reqs (tho doesn't have full features object editing), handy if you want interactive presentations https://awwapp.com/
So they're cooking food in a metal box in a parking lot. I don't see the issue. People seem to like food trucks just fine and the only difference is wheels and an engine.