skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason I never knew that Hungarian Maths teaching is so outstanding. My high school teacher who came from Romania to Hungary always told us that he learned topics much earlier than we did. For example he learned equitations in grade 5 and we learn them in grade 7. So I figured that Romania must be better at teaching Maths.

Having gone through all levels of Maths in Hungary, from elementary school until BSc of university, I want to point out that this method sounds good as long as the teacher is able to keep the attention of the class. In my school, a few teachers were unable to do that and it was a disaster. Children were playing, talking and doing nothing in classes. Even preventing others from learning the material.
Fortunately, I have never had these kind of teachers. However, if someone did they were doomed at university, because the expectations were too high for them. So I think it is quite a big disadvantage in Hungary. If you miss out in high school, because you were busy being a rebellious teen, there is a good chance that you never make it. You only realize it after you started university, because it is pretty easy to get into science courses of top universities in Hungary and very hard to actually graduate.
I think this is more a decision for a country rather than a newspaper. A raid on a newspaper like in England with the Guardian is pretty much unthinkable here.

German newspapers are just as biased as those in other countries. Süddeutsche is no exception.
This single line code

{def U1 {lambda {:n} {if {< :n 0} then else {if {< {floor {* {random} 2}} 1} then ╲ else ╱} {U1 {- :n 1}}}}} {U1 1000}

draws the labyrinthic universe in any web browser. See http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=U1
Thanks for the insight on this, I've edited my response. Are there any extra features in Haskell with product types? I've always understood that there was better composition support for product types in Haskell
All great, but one thing to question is who influences the "International Consortium of Investigative Journalists".

ICIJ was launched as a project of the Center for Public Integrity, which is funded by i.a. The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation and a host of globalist foundations.

https://www.publicintegrity.org/about/our-work/supporters
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If it was a banner of products related to previous purchases, okay, I can see that. But the banner was just a generic "Shop at Amazon!" Lame.
It hasn't. It promised starting shipping Model 3 to people probably end of 2017, people just forgot the original promise.
Elon specifically said that the internal deadline (and deadline to suppliers) is sooner, as he was expecting delays, he just didn't know it would be because of the battery plant.
Just want to let you that independent benchmarking has now shown Brytlyt to be the fastest GPU Database ever: http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-p2-16xlarg...
Goto can already be functionally achieved with labels, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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Hey programers, i am new to this field and looking for app academy bootcamp program. Is there anyone on this forum who can give me a worthy advice.
Is this program only worth for people having programming background or any person can do this. As you guys know its a full time program in newyork city. One has to leave job and live in nyc its a risky decision. What you guys suggest. If this program really give an advance level to learning i will definitely go for it. Your worthy advice will be appreciated.
IIRC one of those homegrown Chinese HPC chips were rumored to more or less use the Alpha ISA.

That being said, I wonder if at this point all the low level software (kernels, toolchains etc.) have bitrotted to the point that you're not buying much, if anything, compared to using RISC-V.

And it's not like Alpha doesn't have those irritating ISA idiosyncrasies. E.g. the most crazily relaxed memory model known to man. No byte load/store until, uh, EV56(?). And it's big endian, which per se isn't wrong in any way, you'll just be dealing with endian bugs forever and ever when porting since the rest of the computing universe, for better or worse, has converged on little endian (x86, ARM, even Linux on OpenPOWER)
Self driving cars would be such a dramatic improvement to the public, it would be adopted much sooner than 20 years after being implemented. Cars that require a human driver would depreciate so quickly and the safety benefit would be so clear, people would upgrade incredibly fast.
> just as there would be if everyone got two dollars for each dollar they hold.

But that's not what's happening!

It's closer to everyone getting 1 jstanleytoken for each dollar they hold.
I usually manage to clean up ¾ of the mess the same night: I dump everything that will fit in the dishwasher and set it to start overnight. In the morning, I empty it, and the rest of the stuff goes in the dishwasher.

Then I put away the liqueur bottles, wipe down the table, and replace the chairs. What other mess is there, beyond routine cleaning?
I would not say that they are doing it on all levels on purpose. (They are just not involving people who actually know how education works.) But it is visible that they are preferring skilled workers to satisfy the requirements of EU by providing cheap workforce who can work in factories or doing other manual works. Don't misunderstand me, I deeply oppose the current education politics. I am just saying that I think I understand why they do it and why they might think that Hungary can profit from it.
Pretty sure WHILE/WEND was a slightly later addition.

I just went and looked up Dartmouth BASIC (this is the original thing). The list of keywords shows FOR, but not WHILE. This is the manual for v2, as early as I could find (1964) - it also has FOR already, but not WHILE:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64.pdf

(Side note: it's kinda amusing that the document uses a slash-through to distinguish the letter O from zero, except it does it in a way that is reverse of what is common today: it's the letter that has a slash through it!)

I do wonder if it was a true loop, though, or whether it was implemented more along the lines of GOSUB/RETURN (i.e. whether FOR basically set up a dynamic label, and NEXT did an indirect jump). If so, then it should be possible to have two FOR statements with the same variable, both "matched" to a single NEXT, if GOTO is used to reach it from one of the loops.
Do people still look up jobs in newspapers? I thought those ads were just legally-mandated foils to prove companies had looked for local people before importing cheaper foreign talent.
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I love it, but I hate the registration options and I do not want to pay $$ for this.

Maybe I'd be happier if there were a 'mine bitcoin' option instead?
> These systems will be fixed and then tossed out

Hahaha, nope. It's easier and cheaper to train a copule of COBOL programmers than replace the systems that run COBOL.

At a previous company I worked for, it was estimated that the cost to replace just a single COBOL based system was upwards of $50 million.

Not only that, banks are notoriously risk averse, especially with their software. They are very reluctant to change things that already work.
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That's exactly what we were told in 1996 (21 years ago that is) when I entered my engineering school: to disregard Cobol and Fortran, because, you know, OLD tech. Won't matter much longer.

If the cost of training peons to make it last and run is less than the cost of rebuilding it, be it from scratch or piece by piece, it will matter longer (that's the point of view of insurances, banks and big corps today, and what's still happening in the IT industry).
It had market share when Google gave it free advertising on _every single Google search_
This looks very interesting. Its high time an Indian institution has some framework for designing semiconductor chips from scratch and perhaps even mass manufacture them for selling them to the rest of the world.

My question is about Bluespec SV and the random logic synthesis of the written code. Is it good enough for good power consumption figures or is that not really a concern at this point? Do you know how its reception has been in industries in the last 4-5 years? Is it still the 'technology of the future'?

Another question I have is, this project being open source, are you seeing contributions from other educational institutions or industries? What would be needed get more institutions involved?
> on the correct balance between state a federal powers, and how long ought an election cycle be

The US doesn't have mechanisms for removal through accountability. This would mediate any need for an optimal cycle (which doesn't exist due to factors like breadth of initiative). Legal controls on "good faith" grace periods would be an effective control, but we don't even get that due to corruption. The US legal system has festered for too long imo.
Is another round of fund raising coming around the corner?
Purple.com was sold
What are you talking about? You speak as if some terrible catastrophe happened in 2015 that has led to untold human suffering in which the media was complicit by turning a blind eye.

Instead what happened was that Germany took in a several hundred thousand refugees and migrants, which was a logistical challenge that was met.

The cultural and integration challenge was initially under discussed but hardly relevant to the immediate humanitarian issue.

Crucially though, that under discussion was quickly self corrected. The big center left media organisations have clearly talked about these issues. And not years after the fact but pretty quickly.

The idea that somehow collectively the left, the German media or some other institutions have turned a blind eye towards the challenges implied is a complete myth.

For example, in the biggest left weekly newspaper, Die Zeit, pretty much immediately after the cologne harassment events in January 2016, the headline article on sexist Arab culture.

http://www.zeit.de/2016/03/sexismus-fluechtlinge-islamismus-...
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"Food chemistry" generally means the chemical reactions in food -- the actions of acids and bases, fats, gluten, starch and so on.

My mother studied food chemistry at college, so childhood baking generally included 20 seconds of explanation on why something I was about to do would make a mess. ("If you don't do X, the protein in won't coagulate and it will all fall apart.")

This mostly applied to baking, cooking eggs, or making a roux. The rest doesn't really matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_chemistry
I have high hopes for Glimmer[1] though as something that can compete with other view libraries and/or frameworks. I'm especially glad that Glimmer diverges from the Ember brand a bit, because there seems to be a lot of outdated (mis)conceptions about Ember from older versions.

I personally feel productive with Ember, but the custom object models and getters and setters for everything are a bit of a turn off, especially after working on an Angular project recently with typescript support. Mobx, for instance, seems to be able to accomplish similar things as Ember but without the custom object model and getters/setters.

[1] For those wondering, Glimmer is Ember's next iteration of view layer and rendering engine, pulled out into a separate library. It's built from the ground up (and so isn't subject to backwards compatibility with Ember just yet), uses typescript, is component based, and it compiles down to op-codes that are used to update the DOM instead of DOM-diffing. http://glimmerjs.com/
This awesome new framework called PlainJS :)

Really efficient some say :)
Yes, but they let the newspapers set the agenda.
I have a little experience after living aboard st sea for several years, and am 100% skeptical about their story, however your point is well made and definitely not worthy of down voting.

This is a good example of one of the sad sides of HN.

We need a way to downvote the downvoters haha
I clicked too, and the site's introduction is pretty telling, in my opinion:

HelloFresh's cancellation flow helps them mitigate churn and capture valuable feedback to improve their product experience for the future.

That sounds very much like it takes the business' side, and not the user. "Mitigating churn" sounds like business speak for "making users stay since quitting is hard". Very annoying.

I thought nobody but the actual user could have UX, talking about user experiences based on the large-scale effects they have on your site/business is ... cynical, at least to me. Bluergh.
Exactly. And worst of all, all the good things they do are to be found on tv & radio channels the average person does hardly consume or at times when nobody watches tv.

And this, I think, is highly problematic as it distorts the way Germans see their country dramatically. Many Germans, I believe, think they fulfill their 'democratic duty' by watching the 'Tagesschau' (the news at 8 pm)

As far as politics is concerned, this shows offers almost zero journalistic value. It's only politicians selling their agenda to the audience (the same goes for prime time talk shows). The only good thing about it is that all parties get enough time to bring their point across and non-political groups are also allowed to have their say. The problem, however, is that it is not in the interest of any party/NGO to actually inform the viewers. They all only include facts when it suits their agenda. What the audience is left with is an incomplete picture of the situation. And based on this (and not well well-researched lists of the pros and cons to the solutions proposed) they cast their vote. Of course, the public broadcasters do also provide these missing information. But you have to listen to Deutschlandfunk radio, search out special documentaries on Arte which are broadcasted at irregular times or watch political discussions at Phoenix at times when you want to go to bed.

The Tagesthemen (which is the late edition of the Tagesschau) is already much better. Some time ago they had a very good comment on mass surveilance that was totally on point. And the average, not Tagesthemen-watching person? They still think "meh .. I've got nothing to hide".
Why the hash? Why not just have the actual bank details? Given that companies print these bank details on their bills in the first place they clearly aren't supposed to be a private piece of information.
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I think the location on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) is:

~/.config/google-chrome/Default

or:

~/.config/chromium/Default
I’ll take that as a no...
You should have bought the air rights for your view then...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights
In China, facial recognition advances lets big brother watch ever more closely
Hi diydsp ! Do you still do low-level microcontrollers audio hacking ? kudos for that clever art generation !
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They skipped 1492? Nothing interesting happened that year, I suppose.
Haven't noticed that everyone is saying that about Chrome and it definitely isn't broken for me.
Love Your Bugs
There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use
Actually the advances in logic programming are quite compelling; answer set programming is pretty cool!

I'm not sure why it's having such a small impact though - perhaps the shear number of low cost programmers available means that no one has to use it. Although I would have thought that high cost programmers equipped with tools like these could better justify their pay.
Why is the horse too high? That's the one price we have no modern comparison for. Nobody is breeding warhorses anymore. A regular riding horse was a lot cheaper than this.
Do you know newspapers in other countries? Having lived extensively in the UK and in Germany I can not agree. Imagine BILD being a moderate high quality newspaper.

Think I'm exagerating? Imagine BILD frontpage with constitutional judges pictured and headline "Volksfeinde":

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwXwe6AXUAQsiCp.jpg
Botnik
Somehow, televisions had the miraculous ability to display content-targeted ads with no user knowledge and zero latency...

It's much easier to target the publication than the individual user.
It's the chassis of the medieval tank.
I remember something similar in Taiwan in 2008. The ostensible reason was that they want to have a thermal camera pointed at people's faces so that they can see if someone has a fever. I don't expect that face recognition was the real reason at that time.

Also, what do they do with people wearing lots of makeup?
I'm always really impressed when I check out the source of a bash program that I use, and part of me wishes I could be at that level, but really I'm more likely to use python for any non-trivial cli scripting. It's more that sufficient for everything I've had to do so far, and python skills have much wider applications beyond just scripting.
IBM Have Built a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer
From both my experience in enterprise software and recent JavaScript conferences I can say that Angular 2 / 4 is still widely used for new projects in that area, much more so than React.

There are a few reasons for this. First, Angular’s programming model lends itself to typical enterprise software requirements. Secondly, Angular, and TypeScript in particular, is similar to what enterprise programmers are typically used to (namely Java and C#). There also is Ionic, which is largely based on Angular.

Finally, Angular and React is one of those odd cases of regional variation in technology distribution. React appears to be more popular in the US, particularly with Silicon Valley companies, than in Europe.
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> usually work in software but aren't actively doing machine learning.

Well, maybe not actively any more, but I was working with NNs a lot in the 90s.

> For example, the LSTM (the default architecture for use of a NN on text) wasn't invented until 1997.

1. We know no more about the theory of LSTM networks than we do about ordinary NNs.

2. McCulloch and Pitts original 1943 paper explicitly mentions hooking a recurrent NN to external memory (they talk about a Turing machine tape).

> Until ~2014, people couldn't train neural networks over 4 layers deep. Until ResNet they couldn't do more than ~10 layers. Now hundreds of layers normal for image recognition tasks, and people still say "there is nothing new".

That's not what I said. I said that there has been great progress thanks to better hardware and heuristics that have accumulated over the years. But the theory has hardly moved an inch in at least a couple of decades, and has yet to make a breakthrough.

> it was new theoretical breakthroughs.

AFAIK, it's been all hardware and heuristics (like LSTM) gained through trial an error, but I'd love to see an example of a theoretical breakthrough.
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ATAM – Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method
> None of the above attempts to wage war (militarily if need be) on the actual tax havens.

Wage a military war against tax havens? Is that in an attempt to obtain other people's money?

I don't think you really understand the issue. Tax avoidance is, by definition, legal in the US. Tax evasion is the problem. If you don't know today who is engaging in tax evasion, how will military strikes on Ireland and Bermuda ferret those people out and make them pay? Do you have the particular law offices and bank locations mapped out on GPS to strike with tomahawks?
Data has to be accessable to be of any use.
Cloth was relatively expensive, but leather & fur was relatively cheap.
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- Consent violation: important part of medical ethics.

- it provides an additional financial incentive to execute inmates
sounds like an episode from black mirror.
Why? If you are in a corporation and don't want to show your hosts in the CT logs, don't use CAs then. In a company I don't see a problem with rolling out certificates with an own CA.
Have you tried LyX? https://www.lyx.org/

I have memorized its keyboard shortcuts and for most problems I'm faster with it than with pen and paper.
Being tracked by a single third party on every site that uses it comes to mind.
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Though not a complete solution, I wonder if it would be possible to implement a no-recline subsidy. A tall passenger could offer a subsidy, perhaps $20, on the seat in front of them in exchange for that seat being set to not recline. The passenger purchasing the no-recline seat would have to explicitly agree to accepting the restriction to get the subsidy. Given how much emphasis many fliers put on getting the least expensive ticket, I wouldn't be surprised if there would be a taker for most subsidy offers. Not sure how well the implementation would go. Would it rely on the subsidized passenger upholding their half of the deal or would it need to rely on inserting a mechanical wedge of some sort that would be a cost to the airline. Or perhaps an automated solution could be found.
Good hint! However, JavaScript labels via break/continue have subtle differences to classic GOTO statements.

From the MDN site examples:

var itemsPassed = 0;
var i, j;

top:
for (i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < tests.length; j++) {
if (!tests[j].pass(items[i])) {
continue top;
}
}

itemsPassed++;
}

The statement "continue top" does not really jump to top, because it only increases "i" and rechecks the loop condition.

In contrast "GOTO top" would re-initialize the loop ("i = 0") and effectively restart it from the very beginning.
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Totally understandable, but that doesn't mean the government should restrict others right to build on their property. Especially in a city, you should expect changes in the surroundings.
The history books I read as a child always said that the British government supported the south, but the British public as a whole supported the North, about 2 or 3 years into the war this was translated into official British government switching to support the North (when it was clear what the outcome would be)
Trying to use data to directly measure things that are better suited to intuitive understanding. Smart people often take for granted that the human brain is still far better at recognizing patterns than it is at mathematical modeling, and the human brain is still many orders of magnitude more powerful than any computer. Data-driven approaches are great for some domains, but are still poorly-suited for others.

Common manifestations of this trap include using code coverage metrics to decide where to write tests and using measurements like cyclomatic complexity to decide when to refactor code.
Because you want your employees to be able to easily access a domain externally without unnecessarily advertising its existence to the entire planet?