skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SO is a chem teacher, so I have a little insight to public education in one US state.

First, lumping all public schools in the US together is not helpful. We don't have a federal system of education, we barely have a state level, and if we are generous we may have a local level. Massachusetts is a really good place to educate your kids, it's on par with Singapore in wold rankings [0]. Alabama is not. Basically, if your local schools suck, go to more PTA meetings and make them better. Bitching on the web is not a good way to do that. Getting out the message to up some tax in your local mill-levy is.

Second, getting rid of kindergarten is insane. Socializing is SUPER important to young kids. Yes, it costs a lot of cash. But so does having a stupid population. I think we all know that a stupid voter base is worse over even a 10 year time scale.

Third, classroom time is not prison for children. If your kid thinks it is, find another school or talk to the teacher and the admin. They aren't soulless bureaucrats. They are massively underpaid humans. Especially in those grades. They deal with a LOT of poop and illnesses.

Fourth, HS as community college would be a great idea for SOME kids. For the majority, you really have to force them to learn algebra and the 'boring but important as hell' stuff. You really can't have a 'major' in HS for most students. Most HN readers are not most students and probably could have a HS major. But public education is for all citizens, not just the smart ones, but the really dumb ones too. We all have a place in this society, even the dumb people, and we all have a right to be educated.

Fifth, the 'system' isn't very well constructed, so tear your's down. I agree that public education is not very well done in the US. But that is YOUR fault. Yes, you, the person reading this. If you think your local school is crappy, go fix it or move. In the US, education is SUPER local (by and large). Talking about US public education like a unified thing is nonsense. The taxes that support your local school are very local and very much something you and a few people can fix. Really, go round up all the patrons in your local bar. That's really all the people it takes to swing an election or get a new tax or measure passed. My SO works at a school that did not exist 6 years ago. The local residents just up and decided to make a new one out of a city park. They built and funded the whole thing. It took maybe 70 people to do this. Now there is a great school. They went out and fixed their local community. Democracy actually fucking works if you do too.

Sixth, no, we are not trapped. We trap ourselves. I mean, yeah, some state laws suck. So go change them. Look at fucking eric Cantor's primary sniping. That took like no money and no people to do. They upset in a primary the house minority whip. Like, come on people, this is OUR country and these are OUR schools. Don't get defeated by the shit you read online. Go make YOUR schools better if you want them to be better.

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students... (source not here, but you can get a start there, hey, it's Sunday, ok?)
Bundled Internet Explorer was particularly troubling because they were promoting ActiveX as the way to provide interactive content and otherwise extend the browser, and ActiveX was very closely tied to the Windows API (so that it would be impractical to make arbitrary ActiveX controls work on other operating systems).

I didn't follow the court case and I don't know if that was a central part of it, but if it wasn't it should have been.

It's easy to think, now that JavaScript has won, that ActiveX in browsers was never going to take off, but I think there was a real risk (and as I understand it in South Korea it did reach critical mass and effectively force everyone to have access to Internet Explorer for a decade and a half).

I don't think Google have done anything similar to that with Chrome.
Just as sleazy.
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How much money we're talking about in your dad's business?

Couple of hundred dollars to a teenage sicario in Escobar's time and you're gone.
This is an issue with protobuf, not grpc, right?

If you can figure out exactly which part your complaining about you should be able to automate it (eg. generating the boilerplate using reflection in java)
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Interesting, that would mean you would have confusion if someone used your class like:

foo.bar.bind(somethingElse);

How would the callee know that this would potentially conflict?
It's really good to see Microsoft join in the open source community. I switched to Mac over a decade ago largely because of the Microsoft only mentality back then. Really makes me consider switching back.
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Yes. And the free market is in the clear for choosing other cloud providers.
It worked for me. Anyway, here's an archived copy:

https://archive.is/jQlRG
Amazon Stores doesn't sell competitor products.

Were Amazon like Microsoft, as you claim, Amazon would sell competitor products that have an Amazon product built in, whether you want it or not, and it will be priced into the product.

(Disclaimer: this analogy to the 90s MS falls apart quickly. But unlike 90s MS, I am not yet forced to do business with Amazon if I don't want to.)
Standards yes - these should match standards of countries they sell in (or even better take the high road and just match Europe). Chinese wages are on their way up anyway and if anything, improving standards will keep wage costs down as part of the package (and I strongly believe improved standards would improve productivity/quality to more than offset costs). It's win win.

Bear in mind people are ready to queue up to pay a ton more for Apple on the basis that they strive to produce a better product on all dimensions - they are the poster child for quality across the board being a viable business approach. That should go consistently through the products and services like a stick of rock and include things like work conditions and green manufacturing.
Its not about challenge. It is about the practical use of information acquired in public school. Young adults leave high school unable to do their own taxes, unknowing of what laws are, with no usable skills in any industry.

The public school curriculum today was built around a need for literate men who could do arithmetic working in factories from the 1920s and on. That is why the core "skills" of public education are mastery of basic reading and math.

On one hand, reading and math are pretty fundamental to most of the world today. On the other, the original designs of curriculum were to repeat those two concepts for 12 years until everyone who graduated was certainly capable of them to insure any adult was a capable factory drone. Throw in some biased national history in social studies to create some cult patriotism and basic science so they don't blow up half the workplace floor by mixing the wrong chemicals and so they have a basic idea of how things move and that was it.

The average high schooler keeps graduating more and more capable of memorizing words and regurgitating them on fill in the blank tests. They are getting better, on average, at more advanced mathematics like algebra. It turns out generations of kids capable of doing math homework didn't dramatically improve the innovative potential of east Asian countries that focused hugely on that from the 80s and on. Japans school system is one of the most rigorous in the world, you have to pass entrance exams just for high school and getting into any university is itself often a several-year long job. But Japans economy is not seeing huge economic growth for all that laser focus on classical lecture and memorized testing.

And even then the current k-12 system does not serve those who aren't as quick to pickup on these memorization concepts and fundamentals for reading and math. Huge numbers of kids are "forgotten" in the public school system and are pushed through despite being borderline illiterate. Because grades are age based and not ability based, if you are either too fast or too slow at memorizing the material instructed at you public school will be an awful experience.
I feel bad for them now people are switching to e-cigarettes
Man buys $27 of Bitcoin, forgets about them, now worth more than $38M
I don't think it's the added security, that makes new software slower and less responsive.
Wait, what?

Also, what is "conceers commentary" that I was supposed to give?

Who said I was refuting some specific problem? The point I was making was about the use of "whataboutism" to simply dismiss "but in the USA you lynch negroes" as an empty tu quoque.

I am saying that navel gazing has a cost -- it diverts attention and resources from where they are most needed. Israel and Feminists were just examples. There are tons. BLM for example focuses only on shootings of Black people by police, but those constitute only 5% of all shootings of Black people. It is common to focus on mass shootings, but those constitute less than 2% of all shootings. And so all the attention and resources are spent on preventing at most 2% of the actual problem: shootings.

Sometimes the navel gazing is by opponents who single out a group for special thrashing.

Often the navel gazing is exacerbated by critics belonging to the group themselves, because for various reasons they want to hold it to a higher standard. Noam Chomsky criticizes the USA more because he lives in it. Lots of Jews actually criticize Israel because they believe it is special and should do better. Many feminists feel other countries just are so far behind that they won't respond to their message. It's a form of soft racism also, saying those other countries arre just not as enlightened as the ones you criticize.

My point is - regardless of the motivation, using "whataboutism" to dismiss arguments can be dangerous because it gives cover to navel gazing and perpetuates problems for decades which could have been solved if people ordered offenders by their severity and prioritized them.
I didn't blame women, and no I don't. Innocent until proven guilty. Hate all you want after the verdict comes in and not before.
Exactly. Treat adult employees like adults, Netflix-style.

Another aspect is near-realtime organization-visible projects, issue status (and ticket system) and KPIs that show attribution to prove people to gain visibilty and credit to avoid “what does person X do all day?” This also makes performance reviews more automated for both sides of the table.

Having unified, unform tiers of performance management processes that ensure minimum of staff and management fudging plus including qualitative, 360 feedback also helps scale the management and HR layers.
Even if true, and feasible, this does noting for spalling from fast neutrons, and half a dozen major bottlenecks with no daylight in sight. Helium impregnation is hardly the major hurdle, at least, not compared to atomic spalling, the breeder blanket, diverter design, magnetic containment, etc...
or Google?

Anyone used Bing lately?
I seam to have a bad timing moving my password from Chrome to bitwarden:

- Password export (button) in Chrome (62) is not available

- Importing passwords from Chrome to Firefox works

- Exporting password from Firefox Quantum (57) is not available
The 11 plus separated kids at age 11 (on Sep 1) into either "grammar schools" or "secondary moderns". The idea was those with acedemic aptitude concentrated on those subjects more acedemic (traditionally Latin, classics etc), where those more practical had those skills encouraged (metalwork etc)

The reality of it now is that richer parents spend lots on tuition to get their kids into the grammars, which breaks the system quite significantly.

This only applies in a few areas of the country though.

I think the only UK PMs to be elected that had a state school upbringing went to grammar schools.
Citation for what?

I'd start with "huge monopoly". Unlike computing in the 90s, I can buy anything I want online without doing business with Amazon.
> Anyone used Bing lately?

All the DuckDuckGo users
That might be an excuse for building walls in some residential area on the East Coast. That's not an excuse for restricting the access of indigenous Hawaiians to undeveloped lands of dubious title. Haole is welcome to visit; haole should remember he is a visitor.
I recently met YouTube CEO
"Camera access" - let's discuss this in more detail. So I am not convinced that I need to put that ugly piece of sticker onto my laptop camera. Is this really a big problem on Mac or no. Is there another alternative than putting some ugly sticker on a beautiful laptop?
That person being 'Marquis-Boire', a name I have never heard before.
Disagree on what that Obama’s policies drastically escalated what happened in Syria and Yemen or that some how Trump is to blame for a conflict that started nearly 3 years ago...

I don’t like Trump i personally think he has a mental condition and it scares the shit out of me that he has access to the nuclear launch codes but all you blame him for isn’t his credit.
This article reads like a self-promotional, self-important fluff piece. Leaving all the congratulatory of her own career aside, she decides on blockchain and decides on LA.....not New York or Singapore or places that actually have alot of financial expertises she can learn.

> going onto to doing bigger and harder thing

Tell yourself the truth; you're afraid of the intense competition in SV. You're going to LA for the weather, and live an easy life. There's no tech in LA except the big tech companies.
Yes that is weird for a technical write up not to mention what FSP stands for. I was expecting it on the first sentence.
Grandpa should probably use a chromebook. It's cheap, it's not as targeted as windows systems, and doesn't need AV. On the downside he'll be locked into the Google ecosystem, but for his needs that might not be so much of a problem.

If it becomes a problem, GalliumOS is actually good enough in most cases to use as a daily driver on a Chromebook.
We don’t do that, and won’t in publisher owned inventory (ad space) without the publisher as partner.
That’s not the full story - I think you’re understating quite how much of a monopoly on operating systems Microsoft had. It was nearly broken up because of a consistent and recurrent abuse of its that position, which culminated in the Internet Explorer case.

With the exception of Google in the search market, None of the examples you cite are in monopoly market positions. Nobody will force Apple to allow other browsers on the iPhone, for example, because there are other mobile phones users can purchase if they require that feature.

Google (in the search market) is of course currently being examined by Europe for its possibly-anti-competitive practices. But these things take time.
Most of the advice seems to be very sound to me other than the mobile anti virus. I've used Lookout several times on Android, and it does nothing to prevent malicious software, I know from personal experience when I Android got Malware and lookout scan reported everything is fine.
I am also thinking about these issues such as career growth vs. buying a home. Can you tell me why buying a home when working is so important? What about saving money and buying home when you are close to retirement?
HP has virt isolation for Chromium & IE, via Xen derivative from Bromium: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=24054...
IIUC, it didn't build the whole OS, it was more of a port of Nix, not whole NixOS, to Genode. But I may be wrong. As such, it could be seen as a step towards the goal. But I believe a different approach might be also possible: by starting from NixOS, and adding support for L4Linux (thus seL4 - bottom layer), then Genode On Linux (top layer), then somehow connecting the two.
Also, if you only use arrow functions you don't even have that problem.
I don't get her point. She is moving out since she realized Silicon Valley is not the epicenter of tech? And her reasons on why LA are weak still (proximity to SV, weather & hustle culture). I would have understood if she wanted to move to another country to immerse herself into new culture and gain more exposure but this seems like a copout. Unless she is planning to work in non-tech space in LA, why is she expecting that techies in LA based companies would be much different than SV (especially in companies like Snapchat, Google etc. which she is quoting)?
I don't understand your point at all: he bought the 4 homes, what he does with them isn't your business or mine.

Why shouldn't he build a wall around his property, it's his and if he likes privacy so be it. With the wall he can walk freely in his property.
There also are plenty of good public schools and plenty of successful people who went to public schools.

Schools are not all the same, you know? The only thing you can say without diving into the statistics is that it depends on when and where you went.
Pretty solid guide, considering sharing this with all your family and friends on Facebook, email etc as an average Joe can learn a lot from this.
Herman Miller Mirra 2 and I love it. :)
make them dischargeable by bankrupcty after 5 or 10 years.

or just make them dischargeable by bankrupcty and let the market price in the default rate and see what happens.

it’s terrible policy & imo immoral to let people be stuck in virtual debt peonage their entire life because of loans they took out at 18.
Everything I've seen suggests that Plus loans will cover any cost of attendance at a college that isn't covered by other financial aid.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/plus#how-much

It is possible to discharge student loans (not just Plus loans) in bankruptcy, but you have to basically prove that you can't survive while still making the payments. I don't know if it is easier to discharge the Plus loans or if they all require the same level of hardship.
Of which I am one.
Still, their market share isn't inspiring.
In North Dakota's defense, the law here was probably put into place when the Bank of North Dakota was doing the majority of loans (SLND). It was really, really hard to default since you could get a deferment with a phone call or change your payment amount the same way. I had about 5 years (various lengths over the loan) where I didn't pay on my student loans because my take home was too low.

I don't know what the situation is now but SLND was really, really easy to get to something that was acceptable.

[edit] hold the heck up: The section of the North Dakota Century Code these websites are quoting is 28-25-11 which has the title "28-25-11. Property applied - Wages exempt - Suspension of recreational licenses for nonpayment of defaulted state guaranteed student loans." - note the word recreational www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t28c25.pdf - no hunting for you - The court may withhold or suspend any certificate, permit, or license issued by lottery, tag, electronically, or over the counter by the director of the game and fish department which the judgment debtor is required to obtain before engaging in a recreational activity.
They all removed the ability to export. Chrome is suppose to be adding it back in 63.
Your own examples demonstrate how much competition there is in the market today. That was not the case in 2001.
Do Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq qualify as natural experiments that test this theory?
And it features "Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum". I've been looking for that for years!
> When you first start out freelancing, you likely have no clients or only a few. You really don't need an assistant, automatic call scheduling, NDA generation. Also -- don't the clients provide the NDA's, not the freelancer?

This was one of the things I found confusing when reviewing the product -- if I'm "starting a project" with a freelancer, why is the freelancer giving me an NDA to sign..?
Kind of surprising at this point that there’s not an area directly below the bottom of the reactor with a giant ceramic catch basin (or something similarly heat resistant) to catch these failures and cleared of pipes etc so when this happens cleanup workers know the location of the materials.
LA is cheaper than NYC or Singapore while still having big city amenities and a decent peer/talent pool. In her shoes I would keep on going and land somewhere in the OC...even cheaper but close enough to a metropolitan area to keep her connected to her contemporaries.
You are technically not wrong, of course, but if the attack vector got already to running Makefiles on your system, you should probably focus your effort to tighten security elsewhere.
> I don't care so much about the content here, but it's interesting to note that they've "paywalled" their content by making you submit your email.

The text link at the bottom "Continue without an email address" worked for me, as did Reader mode in Safari.
Face it dude, fossil fuels are a thing of the past.
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Being incompatible with most available software is not a 'non issue'.

The problem won't solve itself by adoption if it never gets to that point, that's almost a perfect catch-22.
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> Those productive world-competitive people more than likely did not go through the public school system in the US.

That is highly unlikely. Even at elite Ivy universities, a majority of students attended public high schools.

Public education is a lot better than people give it credit for. There's wide variation in quality but there are certainly plenty of excellent public schools available.
Agreed - I don't find the usage of "this" to have any cognitive load, as long as arrow functions are used everywhere. "Arrow functions only" isn't a tough standard to maintain.
Herman Miller Aeron, had it about ten years now. I couldn't find a second hand one as they all seemed to be the medium size but I needed a large one. It was a lot of money but I don't regret it at all.
Yup. Along the lines of one of Friedman’s book, the world is flatter thanks to the internet and global transport.
...investing only in your employer is a particularly bad...

Haha when I worked for Lucent long ago they actually had a program set up exactly for that, so my more foolish colleagues received vastly-overpriced stock in place of some percentage of their salary. Thinking back, the managers must have had some kind of incentive because they hyped it in unseemly fashion.
I wonder what other dormant code exists that if toggled would trigger dramatic changes
The 'block chain revolution'? Revolution? Really? Can anyone tell me about the blockchain tech they are using that makes a noticeable difference in their lives?

Also - what's with the massive glam spread glossy photo shot?

If anything, a big, professional magazine style selfie for a Medium post, combined with the very self-oriented (i.e. it's mostly about me) narrative is more evidence of the symptoms of the Valley than anything.
Password safe utilities seems to be growing too complex, IMHO. Vim's blowfish encryption is a straightforward alternative and the editor seems easy enough to install anywhere it's needed. There are other standalone command line utilities which can create random passwords, and vimscript could probably perform the task without too much trouble.