skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or is education only useful if it makes us a better cog in the globalized economic machine?

To the extent we require people to go to school for a big chunk of their life, and spend hundreds of billions of tax dollars per year on it, this should be the only function of at least a public education.

If people want to think about the “big questions” they should read the Iliad or the Bible or whatever of their own volition.
Because they want the most specific authority to evaluate the report -- you know, the ones who would know how to.

Yes, this allows CNAs to say "not our problem" and now you have a problem, but going to Mitre is not the answer. Pushing back is the answer.
Ask HN: What would you build in a week that you could sell for years to come?
Considering you have $100-$500 and a week to build a product than the rest of 3 weeks to start marketing it, what would you build and sell to bootstrap a business?
Agreed; edited. Explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16318122.
No disagreement with you, but note that electricity used to be that way everywhere and still is in some places. People adapt their level of technology dependence around it. Over time reliability increases dramatically. Likewise early smart phones used crummy network capabilities, but a feedback mechanism drove improvement in the network which drove increased dependence which drove improvements in the network... the same will happen on the home networks.

It's not like we'll all wake up Jan 1 2019 and have nothing but cloud-connected home appliances. It'll be an iterative process, and slower than phone/VCR adoption because fridges and the like are slowly-replaced so-called "white goods".
Fair enough, I just wish you guys didn't beat around the bush so much about salary in early discussions. I really wanted to take the offer but the salary was a non starter, wasted both of our time.
Boy you are thick.

I'm not saying that Wayland can't have remote displays. I'm saying that if you want them (and we do) then you want low latency.
The biggest issue for me was that it was hit or miss if my professors were going to actually teach or if they were going to power through powerpoint slides for 50 minutes. Mostly research heavy professors that are just doing classes because of contractual obligations.

The best professors I had did not read exclusively off of the projector.
What’s stopping them from switching to driving for Uber and Lyft? Whether or not those are devasting to Taxis the fact still remains those systems are superior to traditional Taxis.
Let's not forget that coupled with the complexity is the failing business cases bro!! the business units fail--yeah. JIRA is just some vast snowflake.
Mexicans Afraid of Being in America Create Farm Worker Shortage – Crops Suffer
Eh, Uber is driving taxi companies out of business with billions of dollars in VC money. Offering a dramatic discount in a unsustainable way to ruin your competition is anti-competitive and pretty unethical.

In NYC 88,000 is a livable wage. NYC metro is a very expensive place to live. Calling a livable wage for a weeks work “ill gotten gains” is a bit far fetched. Unions and state controlled monopolies exist for a reason, not the least of which is protecting the broader workforce who don’t have leverage against their wealthy employers otherwise.
Demystifying the `info` Argument in GraphQL Resolvers
The reason I am not considering Apple HomePod is the restriction to the Apple ecosystem. This is what the author concludes as well. Given Apple's history, we will probably never see Spotify integration with Siri. Its integration with Androids is also not as great. I don't think it makes sense even if you're completely in the Apple ecosystem.

I use Spotify for my music on Echo dot. I connect my Echo dot with a 2.1 speaker system. I can get a much better speaker system with woofers and smart capabilities for much lower cost this way. So I don't get the appeal of HomePod if the main draw is its sound capabilities when compared to Echo or Google Home.
Stop looking. focus on finding someone that will be your first customer they will be way more valuable than any co-founder. if you have to build them a custom solution, do it. if your building some kind of ad based product remember the customer are the advertisers.
> just a jobs training program

I was lucky enough to do my undergraduate at a university where this was sort-of true, we didn't do any math apart from some very basic things that I was taught early in high school, and most of the classes were hands-on programming. Most of the assessment was coursework-only as well, only about 20% of the modules had a final exam.

I barely had to do anything as I taught myself most of what they were teaching long before university, but for some of my peers that were only starting to code it was amazing. From my limited experience the quality of developers (at least the ones who actually put in some work instead of just trying to pass) coming from my university was miles ahead of the ones that studied at a 'regular' university where some of my friends went. They taught them theory, math, or even physics, but somehow forgot to teach them how to code.
The Forrest Gump of the 1400's?
I agree strongly.

As an example of a major doing things correctly, in my opinion, is MIT's aerospace engineering with their "unified engiineering" course that covers the basics in a highly integrated fashion.

My experience in a different engineering program was that I learned some sophomore math freshman year (because I had placed out of "freshman calculus"), then didn't use it at all until junior year when I had forgotten it. And then things tried to be integrated senior year when we had a senior design project that tied all our random classes together. I turned out alright, but I think an integrated approach would be much more fruitful.

All that said, I do think there is some value in having the purely mathematical ability to look at an equation, classify it as a certain type, and then know how to solve it. Not every problem you face in life will be an application that existed when you were in college.
One problem is the risk of self-selection bias.
What would all these drivers do once self driving taxis become the norm?

They would instantly go from severely underpaid to completely unemployed. Considering that a market disrupter like Uber has affected them to this extent, do people honestly believe 100,000 new jobs would be available once automation takes their jobs?
Studying history, the classics, anthropology, etc may not increase analytical ability directly, but it increases the breadth of an individual's understanding of how human society got to where we are today, warts and all.

That knowledge is a very important input to any logical or statistical analysis, or resulting system, that affects people's lives.

It just may not be important for someone tasked creating a Bayesian model.

History is especially important for people to learn because without it, history can be (and is) used as a tool by those who have studied it against them.
Launch HN: Supermedium (YC W18) – A full VR browser for web-based VR content
Supermedium is a full VR browser for web-based VR content. Download the browser at https://supermedium.com, put on a headset, and navigate dozens of full VR sites. Pages load quickly and are built with Web standards (WebGL, WebVR, JS). Anyone can publish and share VR content, regardless of whether that content is bite-sized, wacky, lower fidelity, a store’s homepage, an educational outing for a few students, a meme, or something taboo. Anything goes.

Back in 2012, I was researching for headsets that I could watch movies on. I thought it would be cool to have a giant TV anywhere at home or on the go. Soon I became a lurker in the MTBS3D.com forums. I followed the first conversations between Palmer Luckey and John Carmack experimenting with VR hardware [1]. I was one of the 50 members that sent money to Palmer Luckey’s personal PayPal account to get a DIY prototype kit of the early Oculus Rift [2]. I got to try an early version of the Rift and an early 3D-printed prototype of what would become the HTC Vive. It felt the future was approaching quickly and I did not want miss out on the next technological revolution. I was on a quest to find a way to combine my knowledge of the Web with my newly discovered passion in VR.

Kevin and I were teammates on the original Mozilla VR team that kicked off the WebVR initiative. Together we created and grew A-Frame, an open source framework to help Web developers build VR content in the browser. Two years later, we continue to volunteer our time to maintain A-Frame alongside its community.

We are kids from the Web; we formed as programmers using browsers as our playground. We loved learning from others using the built-in developer tools and sharing our experiments with just a link. But we witnessed first-hand how slowly the Web reacted to the rise of smartphones and app store ecosystems. The Web became an afterthought.

We know it is still the early days for VR. VR hardware is expensive, clunky, and software feels undercooked. But we believe that in the future, headsets (whether VR or AR) will replace traditional displays, transforming the way we interact with computers. We want the Web to be a first-class citizen on VR and on immersive platforms going forward. We founded Supermedium to try to help establish the Web as a valuable foundation for the next big shifts in personal computing. We want to bring the best ingredients of the Web to VR. And it starts with a browser.

Looking forward to hearing feedback!

Diego and Kevin

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[1] https://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=14777&sid...

[2] https://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=14777&p=7...
Had a dot matrix printer that used continuous paper. Notorious for jamming. Usually something getting stuck on the little holes, or the perforated sides tearing mid-print.
A system experiencing cascading failure has no capacity, and at this point it should be considered engineering malpractice to imagine that American democratic institutions will do the maintenance on anything, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
This somehow crosses into personal attack, which is not ok in HN comments. The man who killed himself may not be here to read it, but the reason we have this rule is because of community effects.
Not a rhetorical question: it seem to me that google becoming a despicable company; does anyone have a view on this?
The money is lower, its still a race to the bottom, still essentially financed by VC and both companies hope to eliminate the driver with autonomy.
> That association between college program and career does indicate that some job training is involved and necessary for career growth.

While I'd certainly agree that there are, in fact, at least some career paths for which that is true, but even a job having a preference for certain degrees doesn't have to imply that training is happening; different degree programs could have different filtering effects without being actual training.

And, of course, not all jobs that require degrees are narrowly focussed on specific fields.
No, I've just done a lot of CBT. Killing yourself for a chance at a NYT article is flawed thinking, plain and simple.

I graduated at 2009, after the recession, with a degree that wasn't particularly useful. I was unemployed for a long time, but I figured out how to lower my standards, get something to survive on, and then use that foundation as an opportunity to retrain myself. It's hard, but it's not impossible, and millions of people take new jobs that are in different fields.
I may be wrong but doesn’t GPL (any version) simply require that source code be made available to customers on request, rather than pro-actively?

As it stands the developers don’t appear to have actively refused to provide source code - it might be premature to call them out for breaking the terms of the license.

Edit:
My interpretation above appears to be correct in so far as you don’t have to make the source code proactively available (unlike what Video LANs President claimed in the article)

>Moreover, they don’t seem to share the source at all, which is also a violation.”

But there is still the requirement to include the license to inform the user of their rights. Unfortunately the article doesn’t seem to explicitly say whether there’s a licensee tucked into eg the About screen from the screenshot.

IANAL but assuming there is, then the developers here could still be in the clear?
One Company's Relationship with Custom Web Elements
> My issue with smart homes is that they seem to provide few tangible benefits compared to earlier inventions

> Smart locks, smart lighting, smart ovens etc may save you seconds at best

It's not necessarily about saving seconds but making these things easier to use. I liked the article's example of using a smart oven because everyone I know has a digital programmable oven but none of them ever use the extra features. I love setting up my oven to cook something while I'm gone, timed to finish around the time I'll arrive home. Make that feature easier to discover / use and perhaps more people will experience the same joy.

I've found smart lighting to be far more practical than it sounds at first glance. I can't get too excited about having lights do things when people come or go, tho I do use those features... but having bulbs individually controllable lets me create "scenes" to provide the ideal lighting for the activity taking place. My TV Viewing scene turns off all the bulbs that reflect on the screen and dim the rest -- a feat that I could not accomplish without re-wiring every fixture in the room, adding dimmers, etc. For the kids at night we turn off most of their bulbs but have a few color-changing bulbs that turn red and go dim as night lights. Etc.

And speaking of kids, when Alexa says it's time to shut off the electronics and go do some chore they actually go do it without the whining and complaining!
Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS), because it's the closest thing there is to a standardized, plain-vanilla version of Linux. I don't want to think about it; I just want it to work.
the most powerful operational rocket, but not the most powerful ever. I believe the Saturn V was more powerful.
I do not believe a university is a job training program so I don't think we should optimize for employment. Skills necessary for modern life include critical thinking and diverse perspectives on the world. This is the value of "general education".

College students don't know what they are interested in, that's a big reason for going to college in the first place. You can't ask them what they need to know because they don't know it yet.
Any distribution medium could be used that way. Newspaper, radio, OTA TV, cable TV. Now that Netflix has more subscribers than cable TV in the USA, they're a pretty serviceable means for getting information out.

Also they tend to have better production values than most PSAs.
I remember when I was in 7th grade and we were first introduced to the Saxon math books. We would learn new material, but our homework constantly reinforced information from previous sections so that we never needed to go back to study anything, because we were solving the older problems on a daily basis and could be expected to solve them on tests.

Requiring that students not only show that they understand current knowledge but also that they retain past knowledge seems to be a much better way to educate students. It obliterates the slacker cram mentality that many students have.
CNBC has routinely harped on cryptocurrency, namely Bitcoin. Their tweets end up being retweeted into my stream, and they always seem to have a stance against. This article is no different. However, Bitcoin has been on a downslope for entirely different reasons than the stock market.

Edit: Particularly CNBC's Fast Money twitter: @CNBCFastMoney
They owned an island, now they are urban poor: the tragedy of Altamira
Falcon Heavy Test Flight
Russia and China battle US in race to control Arctic
Taxi medallions are hellishly expensive. Most of the time, you have a loan to purchase your medallion, that you then spend a long, long time paying off. It's essentially a form of indentured servitude. You can switch to Uber/Lyft. But you still have to pay off that loan for your medallion. And if Uber/Lyft aren't paying the same rate as driving a cab used to, you can find yourself without the money to pay your medallion loan and still make ends meet.

That said, I disagree with the headline blaming this on the gig economy. There's lots to blame the gig economy for, but this is pretty squarely showing the flaws in the old medallion system -- that you need a crippling amount of financial debt in your name to participate in the system.
It's currently delayed until about an hour before the launch window closes, and they are hoping for the winds to die down. looks unlikely that they will launch today.

EDIT: nevermind fuel is being loaded and the "holy mouse click" has happened.
Yes for much of its life perspective has been a python library. It offers a streaming dataframe abstraction in Python. I believe the Python bindings have not been open sourced yet.
Think of it with money instead. If they charge $20 for a license, then you have the option to pay, or to be in violation of copyright. Here they're requiring a transfer of IP instead of money but it's the same deal.
I went to our local hackathon: Valley Hackathon
This seems basically the same concept as metering lights at freeway on ramps. In the end waiting a few moments can prevent overcrowding make it faster for everyone.
I suspect that you're right about being able to teach analytic thinking better if we designed a cirriculum around things more directly relevant to that. However, liberal arts schools that follow the classical philosophy don't just teach mythology, they also spend a lot of time on classical texts in mathematics, philosophy, and logic. So it isn't completely without directly relevant courses.
I'm not just making a general statement about all bugs, but also a specific statement about how I think this bug could play out. Not only does it kill all processes under the user, but it also crashes the entire system. Both of those are interesting bugs, and have possible implications if you can cause them in interesting situations.

Can you cause some system process that happens to share the user with another, more interesting process to run a kill syscall?

Can you cause the system to crash while some more trusted process is in the middle of updating a configuration, password, or other data structure that will cause interesting effects after the system is restarted?

Both being able to cause other user processes to die, and to cause the system crash on demand as a user, are things I would consider individually as security problems just because they have a high probability of having unforeseen consequences. Having them together doubles the attack space (even if it does possibly create some problems with following through with a second action).
Someone replied with a gentle "this is not a real thing" response.
> The Richter scale measures and describes impacts, so you already know the impact from the 6.4 rating itself.

This is moment magnitude, not Richter. Specifically, 6.4 "Mww", or "Moment magnitude derived from a centroid moment tensor inversion of the W-phase", whatever that means. [1]

[1] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/terms.php
At what point is it just more economical to sell them at a reduced price to restaurants (where the customer might not see the label)? I'm sure the guys (you) peeling the labels are probably the lowest paid in the factory but a few staff doing the work for the whole afternoon adds up.
That's not Mars orbit. It's an orbit around the sun with perihelion ~1AU (distance the Earth orbits) and aphelion ~1.5AU (distance Mars orbits [avg]).
Electrical code becomes an issue; afaik the NEC doesn't have provision for UK plugs, and you'd have to wire it up with both legs of your residential service. That's a layer cake of failed inspection. You may not care, but any future home buyer might, and your insurance company very well may too, should your house ever burn.
Great. So like numerics in the IRC protocol, everyone does their own, and if you’re lucky some overlap.
really cool. would love to see a Rust version.
And if you are interested in Elm, but felt limited by the language, you may also be interested in PureScript or Haskell.

http://purescript-pux.org/

https://haskell-miso.org/

http://docs.reflex-frp.org/en/latest/
If you don’t know what the effect on your 50/50 decision would be depending on how the stock market performs, why are you so set on that decision as to not want advice if it were offered? If you don’t know the effects, how do you know it wouldn’t be better to be 55/45, or 45/55?

Tyinguq gave you a good answer already, but to add to what s/he said: anything kept in cash will almost certainly earn less than inflation, meaning that with cash you’re losing, even if the numbers appear to go slightly up.

There are plenty of times when it’s worth taking this hit for the benefits of cash. Maybe you want the cash as an energy fund to cover ‘x’ months of living costs should you lose a job, maybe you’re planning a big purchase in the near future, maybe you think the stock market is about to crash and want to invest when it’s at or near its next major low point, maybe you’re about to retire and want some of your wealth extremely low risk, I’m sure there’s plenty of other reasons. (If you’re trying to time the market and buy more when it’s cheap, you might do much better than investing it now, or you might do much worse, but that’s a whole new topic).

Unless a specific reason, in the context of however big or small your wealth is, means that you specifically need exactly 50% in cash, you might consider investing more in something that can give better returns than cash. If you’re trying to hedge against a stock market crash but think historical patterns in the finance world will continue, maybe bonds are a good option. If you’re worried that there’ll be a wider downtown then you might consider precious metals or even cryptocurrency. And maybe cash should be a part of the hedge, but maybe not all.

Disclaimer: I’m an amateur not a professional adviser, and I’m not advising you to do anything other than to consider why you think 50/50 is the best choice and whether it actually is or not.
Into deep space. This will be SpaceX's first flight beyond Earth orbit.
are these the titles? who is the author?
What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death
They must have been thinking about Trump's comment when they made the headline, right?
Something similar could probably work if your print jobs required all the same width paper. Printers today need to handle many sizes (legal, letter, tabloid, envelopes etc etc).
Bitcoin's 'many problems' puzzle regulators
I thought taxi companies owned the medallions -- hoarding them like gold coins -- and charged the driver what amounted to a "rental fee" for using them. IIRC it's unusual for a single driver to own their own medallion.

I could be misremembering though.
I think they just messed up what side is flat, right?
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> Motion is absolute.

What are you talking about? Motion is definitely not absolute, and only Galilean invariance is needed to see that.