skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I teach robotics to students age 11 - 14. We have settled on the definition that a robot must do three things: sense, think, act. First thing I do is take away all of the remote controls and tell them they have to program it.

I wish that programs like VEX and FLL would do away with the "tele-operated" portions of their competitions. Kids may enjoy it, but too many of them fall into the trap of treating it all like a remote controlled toy and never get very deep into the programming aspect.
Cloudflare aren't a Certificate Authority, they use Comodo certificates.
Why not just give an automated field-sobriety test for alertness, judgment, and reflexes at the start of each shift?

Pass the test, and you can clock in and get to work. Fail the test, hit the nap room (unpaid) for a while, and try again when you wake up.

It would catch people who are drunk, high, having a stroke, or just sleepy, rather than just the guy who used cannabis two weekends ago and is perfectly capable of working now.
This is a fair description. Google would never exempt itself from info gathering. It's their platform, after all.
Graduate sues Oxford University over degree classification
about time, I hope this de-rank happens on other google owned platforms too, such as YouTube
I'm personally of the opinion that we must prepare for a society where unskilled jobs don't exist anymore. Evidently they'll be replaced by machines sooner or later. Cashiers, warehouse workers, harvesters... These jobs are soon going to join carriage drivers and lamplighters in history books.

That's clearly a big problem for our societies which seem to collapse when unemployment raises. It's also clear that not everybody will end up as a software engineer or neurosurgeon. So what's the solution? That's left as an exercise for the reader.

What would a society where only a tiny portion of the population needs to actively work to provide for everybody look like? An utopia for some, hell on earth for others.
My work laptop (the only Windows computer I use) runs Windows 7, and I intend to keep it that way as long as Windows 7 still gets updates. This article just confirms my bias, and I freely admit I am biased. I do not like Windows very much to begin with, but as far as Windows goes, I think Windows 7 ____ing nailed it (for people without touchscreens, anyway).

On a related note, I have noticed that Outlook 2013 exhibits a notable lag between a keystroke and a character appearing in the message window. I have not done any measurements, but my best guess is that it is in the order of hundreds of milliseconds. If you type fast (I like to think that I do), Outlook can keep up throughput-wise, but this lag is terribly annoying.
Living in a multi-cloud world
I liked GTD, but in my opinion the system laid out in "Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook" is much better: https://www.amazon.com/Total-Workday-Control-Microsoft-Outlo...

I was not a fan of Outlook before I came across this book, but the way the author configures Outlook and the workflows he lays out works really, really well. My inbox is near zero throughout the day, actionable items are captured easily, and tasks don't get lost over time.

I highly recommend it.
How are tethers created exactly? Are they not mined? If so, how can they be a cryptocurrency?
FCC Will Seek to Dismantle Net Neutrality
Trust in exchanges is what keeps Bitcoin prices up. This is bad for Bitcoin and all digital assets.
There can be (though you’d be surprised- there’s rarely such a thing as a non-identifiable user nowadays). Just pointing out it’s a very big conditional.

For example: I work at Bleacher Report and our non-logged-in users get data customized for them. That can be as simple as GeoIP data or can be us knowing (and inferring) what articles or content they’ve seen.

The permutations are quite large.

Now some blog, or a very simple app won’t do something like that (hell, they might not have the depth of content to be able to) but it’s reasonbly common to have that requirement on large sites outside of v.limited pages (like login/signup etc)
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News, especially on divisive topics? We eventually ban accounts that do this repeatedly and we've had to ask you before.
Probably not going to be a popular article here given the number of people building businesses to flip in a few years time for early-retirement money...
"Open-source" analyists figuring out North Korea’s nuclear secrets
Careful, multi-mode fiber is near its scaling limits. 10GBASE-SR and 25GBASE-SR exist, but that's about it. (By contrast, 40GBASE-LR and 100GBASE-LR work over single-mode fiber, and DWDM + coherent optics can push the medium much further.) Wouldn't want to be stuck at 25 gbps forever ;-)
"we are sometimes portrayed as snobby and entitled"

Huh? That's not at all the stereotype I see associated with programmers. More like the opposite. In fact, a gag like this is much more in line with the stereotype I'm familiar with.
Maybe it is his relationships that are dysfunctional, not his interest in podcasts.

When I was involved in online gifted parenting groups, it was common to see smart kids "obsessed" with something that worked well for them. In my family, the dysfunctional behavior was resolved by helping my son find ways to genuinely get his needs met so he wasn't intellectually starving anymore. I also helped him find outlets foir his interests.

The example I always gave him was that there was nothing wrong with liking debate, but go join a debate club instead if picking arguments with your mom every day. He never joined a debate club, but he did learn to find socially acceptable outlets and stopped making me apoplectic.

I will add that gifted kids who were "obsessed" with a particular thing were often twice exceptional. They were gifted and also had some kind of handicap. Their obsession was something that adequately met their intellectual needs after years of starving because it somehow was both sufficiently information dense and delivered the information in a way that worked well for them. Someone who speed listens to podcasts constantly sounds to me like someone seeking a density of information in a format that works for them.
https://www.xkcd.com/1883/
I started with just GT. But getting things turned out to be severely addictive. Now I can't se how to be done with it.
Here are some free applications that enhance Windows by a lot
tldr; greed trumps all else. Very sad but unsurprising to read your story :(
FCC unveils plan to repeal net-neutrality rules – Axios
Well that certainly explains why a W7 with Classic theme feels faster than with the default Aero theme. Thanks to OP for digging!
I'll start! :-)

I'll be there from Sun-Friday. I am mainly interested in the BIG data, analytics, data visualization type topics.

Wanting to talk to people that are using Redshift as their storage engine about reporting/dashboards etc.

Feel free to reach out: harris@nimblelabs.com
I have studied in France and this is not true from my experience. Greek and Latin were and will be for the good students (Hollande removed that but it'll be back).

The choice between German and Spanish is made by the parents except if there is a lack of German teachers.
Well I have no experience with greyhound since I'm European but I do absolutely hate flixbus. Awful experience every time I've used them. Never again.
Ooh, you might have had a point about spending on education for mentally disabled people far outpacing that for the average student, but adding in the part about having to pay to feed children and "would-be gangsters" makes me think you might have an ulterior motive beyond fixing the education system.

I also want to point out that you included teaching to read in you list of things parents should be doing and not the teachers. Because teaching is not something teachers should be doing
> One of the early promises of cryptocurrency was to "sick it to the man and governments". Now its powered largely by greed and consuming our most important resources in breakneck speeds.

There is a really critical distinction between truly trustless currencies like bitcoin and "managed" [centralized, trusted] assets like the ones Ethereum offers. Interesting that once you start to grant some amount of trust there are options that don't leverage proof-of-work at all, so the waste is not necessarily a concern.

Proof-of-work is "only" necessary if you want trustless coin w/egalitarian distribution. Some folks would argue that it's not necessary to be truly trustless (perhaps bootstrapping a new bitcoin node could suffer a DoS from a sybil false-chain attack, at which point you would trust someone authoritative's copy of the blockchain).

No matter how you slice it, you should be very, very suspicious of any new cryptocurrency and super extremely suspicious of any new "crypto-asset".
Yeah because CS/Math professionals have never use VB or JS. I'm quite sure that many Wall Street quants and Fintechs who use VBA in Excel to do their job today will find your statements hilarious.

Some of the worst code that I've ever seen has been written by hard maths people.

> It's fun for the rest of us CS/Math guys to sit back and watch you JS programmers discover things we learned 40 years ago. :-)

Such as?
FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
Fog of war (AoE-like) with your Google real GPS data
> On a related note, I have noticed that Outlook 2013 exhibits a notable lag between a keystroke and a character appearing in the message window.

Try switching to text-only mails, no zoom... and if you must write HTML mails, do not have an image that is larger size than the window. As soon as there is an image that doesn't fit into the window at 100% zoom Outlook begins to crawl.
This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries by Looking at One Brushstroke
Midnight is not after midnight.
How and where did you get this job? It sounds like my dream job
Oh, I agree. It's still noticeable, absolutely. I tend to be "unaware" of it as I work, but that's as much psychological. It is about half as wide as the previous Dell (P2715Q), but still... the thinner the better.
How the FCC Can Save the Open Internet
Indeed and those ways have way less chance of causing accidental issues later down the road.

Same deal with profanity, excessive vulgarity or calling out named persons, etc. in error messages.

It's just unprofessional and it can cause all sorts of unforeseen "upstream" issues.

(Even really surprising things like profane class names can cause issues because of things like reflection, etc.)
I don't know how Greyhound is still relevant. Most of the time you can get comparable if not cheaper tickets on Amtrak, and it's an order of magnitude better experience than a greyhound bus. I just did a sample from Chicago to SF, and it's 20 dollars cheaper on amtrak, and 1 hour faster. That's leaving on Monday.

I suppose there may be some rural routes where it's a good option, but I don't see it.
That xml namespace is a significant portion of the total. At least for inline svg you don't need it.

Btw-- what is the history of inline svg not needing an xml namespace in HTML5?
Note that on Linux you are not forced to use a compositor, personally i do not use one and so i do not have any such penalty when running games in windowed mode.
Optical Cochlear Implant Turns Light Against Hearing Loss
The Fairphone 1 was shipped without Google services; don't know about the Fairphone 2.
What makes this the "uber for long buses"? It isn't even that they they are filling unused inventory on existing routes, from what I can tell they are simply using contractors. Is all it takes to be the uber of something to not have staff and have an app? The article didn't mention uber at all (or did I miss it?) and this really seems more like a regular long haul bus company that thinks they can do it better than a real disruptor.
> it's greed and laziness that causes fat to accumulate

Are Americans much greedier and lazier than they were 40 years ago? Are American animals?
It wasn’t that callbacks we’re a selling point, it’s that asynchronous execution was.

Callback were just the way of doing that in JS. Now we have Promises + Async/Await as sugar around what is basically the same pattern

ie - cb(err, result) is not that different than .catch(err).then(result) but it’s much nicer to develop with.

Of course now you can do the same in imperative try/catch for with await so yes, we’re back to similar syntax but a whole lot change under the hood and provided a much more performant concurrent model
Ask HN: Would we even know it if China were flying hypersonics over the US?
These things always seem crazy until they happen to you: I was laying on the couch the other day and I heard what can only be described as a loud explosion or booming sound that echoed through my neighborhood. Being that no one in my neighborhood was talking about a transformer station or someones water heater exploding, and there wasnt a cloud in the sky, and its well before frost season, and I dont live near a military facilty, or major fault, and it wasnt trash day, ive been stumped coming up with an explaination. My dog went crazy when it happened so it wasnt just me.

This got me thinking about the hypersonic jets in the news, and I was wondering, if something that fast were developed would anyone (including the us military) know about it being flown right over our heads? Or would it be exactly as has been happening over the last month, just a series of loud booms heard across the US that everyone chalks off to random noises, frost quakes, etc. Another detail, my sister reported hearing the same sound the same day. She lives about an hour away to the northeast. I live on the northern suburb of a very large city, and people elsewhere in the city werent talking about it, so it must have been localized in some way.

Anyone have any more rational and critical explaination for the loud sounds being reported across the US more frequently this month, or is this just more of the same, and its possibly just psychological that people are noting an uptick in the reports of innocuous sounds?
Am I the only one wondering why it took 4 days for the pheasant to reach the top of the tree? Obviously to eat more bullshit it would have had to fly back to the ground to get some. It should have just eaten enough on the first day to get enough energy to reach the top. . .
You know how Mao said power flows from the barrel of a gun? In the office, power flows from the threat of job loss. It's the threat implicit in every executive decision.
Other than being extremely complicated to setup, has the ability for people to socially engineer themselves out of it and costing 1 hour of work per day per person yea you could do this .
Really?

The whole immigrant debate is so political now, it's hard to find any trustful source, including the stats put out by USCIS , DOJ, etc.

So if you want to know how the SSN game works for illegal immigrants, find some media who wants to paint it in a positive light, even if they have to admit that millions of workers use fake SSNs: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/undocum...
FCC Chairman Proposes Abandoning Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules
I don't think hustle necessarily translate to BS. Having worked with a team of hustlers and a team that were not, it was clear to me hustlers get the job done better with more enthusiasm and energy. The team that were not hustlers seemed to have dreaded their jobs and complained way too much. You can guess which team members got the promotions.
> You don't think there's any such thing as nerd culture?

Nothing is ever black or white. I'm most certainly a nerd, but that doesn't mean I have the same sense of humor as every other nerd. Think of it like inheritance vs composition. Just because I'm a nerd, doesn't mean I inherit everything other nerds have. I only have some components. And while I appreciate Sci-Fi movies, I don't participate in wars between Star Wars and Star Trek (I think Stargate SG1 was better anyway).
Yes. However, you don't worth with concrete cutters or 1k volt lines.
Dynamic import()
Haha yeah, low-skilled workers don't deserve to have food or shelter or any sense of purpose in life... am I right or am I right? Guys???
> Why not just give an automated field-sobriety test

Because they are famous for low specificity and low sensitivity.
I was running into this issue with a "task reminder bot" running through facebook messenger since I would be off from work on a thursday or something an it would still nag me about work tasks. Do you think it would be better to have an option for "Work Day Routine" vs "Day Off"?
Why not just give an automated field-sobriety test

Does such a thing exist? Is there any independent evidence that it actually works?
A Hearing Device with No Stigmatizing External Hardware
Au contraire, this kind of rage-fluff is so popular that we have to penalize it on HN. It's not that it's wrong; it's too right. Nobody's going to disagree, and if they do the rage will turn on them.

It's sort of interesting how a supermajority view can feel like a minority view, but that's not the sort of thing a discussion can get going around.
Everything in threes.
Saying that you're part of the culture doesn't really remove the suggested universal negative, it just implies that you feel that you are part of that demographic.

The point I was going for was that I'd suggest that all humor is so subjective that it's impossible for a universal negative to apply.

In the same way that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, humour is in the ear of the listener.
Cool. I would have preferred "android" but Google's smartphones ruined that.
Flixbus owns 1 bus I believe, just so they can apply for routes as a bus company. They then "wet lease" the services (staff+bus).
I love org-mode but I don't use Emacs. Here is (almost complete) vim equivalent: https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

With vim-orgmode I can quickly edit stuff in familiar editor.

I have tried various other formats, including taskpaper and various to-do lists but org-mode stands out by far.
Why do people care about affiliate links? Serious question.
Elaboration is more of a quantitative thing than qualitative, though. It's always possible to elaborate further, and there's no harm in asking to do so. And I found that his further elaboration was helpful:

"I could also clarify that BountySource is opt-out: by default they're accepting bounties for projects that did not agree to having a bounty program."

I originally assumed you had to register your project on BountySource, and they were just making it difficult to de-register something that had already been added.

Making this thing opt-out only, and apparently making opting out difficult, is really bad behavior, and I completely agree with his characterization.
> the reality that most software jobs need skilled workers

It's not just skill, it's also a level of creativity that one needs to do things like programming. And that creativity is often absent when the work is too boring.
Likely the requirement to be handled by a non-XML parser and to ease adoption. In practice the namespace will always be copied from somewhere because no one ever types it from memory.

Still, IMHO inline SVG is a horrible mess as it is parsed as sort-of XML, has its own weird rules, doesn't show up as written in the DOM Explorer, and breaks on completely strange "errors" like not naming the XLink namespace prefix "xlink". Can I still wish for XHTML?
You forgot about food production - both farming and things like meat packing or food manufacturing
If I remember right, it's also due to the fact that the type of parent that will spend the money and time to enroll their child in a charter school is much more likely to be the type of parent that takes an active role in their children's education.

There's an argument that a charter school's real advantage is that it attracts a higher proportion of parents who want to push their kids for achievement and have the resources to do it as well.
We brought the xkcd web comic into VR
But notably, from the article:

> Every properly conducted scientific test of water dowsing has found it no better than chance
I could see some combo of youtube, tool rental, and a live helpline with trained blue collar workers as a fallback.
I don't think anyone would claim that it does, except maybe Google Marketing and a few blue-eyed computational linguists - who would probably do themselves a favour by focusing a little more on the linguistics of the endeavour.

It is a text-to-text machine translation system. There is, as far as I know, no attempt at an internal representation of anything like semantics or knowledge about the world. They may have added some grammatical facts, but there is no model of the world and no notion of time like a person would use to make or understand statements in natural language.

Case in point: The artifacts of the training processes behind machine translation systems like Google Translate cannot be used to generate sentences from pictures or notions or anything like that. What is happening is nothing like a human learning a language, or even a pair of languages.

That's not to say it's not impressive, useful and important tech, mind, but it really does not do all of what it appears to do at first glance.
Scaling messaging in Go network clients
This doesn't seem to work any more :( I'm trying to keep notifications of my calendar and flights but disable all the distractions like "Stories to read", and apparently Google has removed the ability to disable it... (https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/140288/how-do-i-...)
New coins using proof-of-stake should look to Peercoin for guidance. It's the oldest PoS coin, had no premine/developer fee. (note that it does use PoW for distribution).

> Lot of HN-ers are extremely cynical about cryptocurrencies

I think cryptocoins are great but we can all see folks dumping their money into assets that they have no hope of understanding, guided by FOMO. As a whole it seems like there's not enough cynicism.
I love how political posts (particularly about this corrupt, incompetent administration) get flagged on HN because they're not "on topic"

Well here you go, turns out politics affects real life, and even the tech industry.
> take a 30% cut

30% of $0 is $0.

So tell me again about how Apple hosts literally billions of free app downloads for $99/year per dev as a money making scheme.
In Chicago there's a robot store always looking for teachers to help students about that age range (maybe even younger). Can't remember details, but if your city has a robotics store, chances are they can help you get into teaching.
Well most start ups are bullshit and as a result most do fail.
> I want to know if they can communicate with me. I want to know if I can sit down and talk to them and enjoy myself. Do I get any weird vibes? Do they keep checking their phone? Can they talk with passion about their current work or work experience? If this doesn’t go well, maybe schedule a second one, or part ways.

Honest question, why do they think this sort of stuff is relevant? I've heard "can I spark a conversation with him if I met him at the check out line?" And other questions I can't wrap my head around.

Is it appropriate to meet for coffee to begin with? Is an ability to socialize well and "chat over coffee" important for roles that are not customer or client facing?

As a developer or engineer,do you find these skills relevant,critical or important to get your job done?
Semiconductor Wafer Demand: Growing Pains
Regarding setuid, this is why when you run programs like ping(8) it doesn't require root access to open a raw socket. ping's setuid is set so upon execution it executes as root since ping is owned by root and then calls setuid(getuid()) to run as the intended user.
I would be okay with drug tests that didn't fail you for weed. That can show up on a test weeks after it's been consumed. The drugs that would actually significantly impair you (alcohol, opiates) clear out of your system in hours/days.
Mesa-dev: GBM and the Device Memory Allocator Proposals