skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It brings me back the memories of my first website created with Frontpage. I forgot the URL of the site but I found it after googling. I was amazed to see that it was still working. Here it is http://pranav.awardspace.com
So I am curious how the presence of them in WASM would help
>The teacher won't be the one paying, the community will gather money if required.

you are beyond clueless. any school that has a computer is a private school. public schools have zero money. there is no community doing fundraising - you're talking about people who absolutely literally live on <1$ a day and have never seen a computer before in their lives (let alone are willing to contribute money to power one).

>A small generator is USD$40 to buy here in China as I stated, not USD$300.

how much do you think it costs to ship? how high do you think import tariffs are? do you plan on holding every generator that every school needs on your lap on a flight over? i had to buy a socket wrench once - it cost me 30$ because it was imported.

>You are making a mountain out of a molehill.

i lived in rural uganda for two years and taught high school. i know exactly what i'm making into a mountain. these people can't afford toilet paper and soap. they shit into shallow holes in the ground. teachers read aloud from textbooks and students copy verbatim into trash notebooks (made out of discarded newspaper) because they can't afford textbooks. they eat boiled corn flour every day for their entire lives - a soda is a treat. just no clue man. how about this: spend the $1000 on a plane ticket and go see for yourself rather than sending rpis that no one will ever use and learn about what it's really like so you can then go on to educate others.

> I see solutions. You see problems.

lol. go ahead. do it. report back to us in a year how you've found the silver bullet the NGO community has been looking for for 40 years.
You may be right, but in the interview the teacher does not seem to share your concern:

I've read in news reports that you've received an outpouring of help from foreigners who want to donate computers to your school. Is that actually happening?

No, they are showing interest but nothing has been brought to the school. We are praying that they are able to organize themselves and present us with computers.
Yup: https://github.com/cretz/asmble
Why would the Canadian govt. give special treatment to Chinese people? I think there's just not clear evidence. Look at the endless talk of Chinese people running up the prices of homes in Vancouver, that gets tons of attention, but it's generally legal. The crimes you suggest are much different than that.
Second Measure (YC S15) | SF Bay Area - San Mateo, CA (downtown) | ONSITE/REMOTE | https://secondmeasure.com

----

Second Measure analyzes billions of credit card transactions to answer real-time questions about consumer behavior.

Through our self-service analytics platform, we help our clients – some of the world’s largest brands and investment firms – answer questions like:

- Is Lyft gaining or losing market share in NYC? [1]
- What's going on in the meal-kit space? [2]
- How dependent is Stitch Fix on its biggest spenders? [3]
- (Check out our research blog [3])

We’re 25 people today - mostly senior engineers and data scientists. Two-thirds of us are technical, half with PhDs.

We’re looking for other strong builders, especially those who can grow into leadership roles:

- Senior Product Designer (designer #1)
- Senior Data Scientist
- Senior Software Engineer (backend/frontend/data/devops) - REMOTE OK
- (more)

I'm a founder (mike@). Apply directly [4] or email jobs@ and CC me.

[1] http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Lyft-gets-boost-...

[2] https://www.theinformation.com/data-suggest-more-trouble-ahe...

[3] http://blog.secondmeasure.com/2017/12/07/whales/

[4] https://boards.greenhouse.io/secondmeasure
If you had a battery of lasers, you should be able to cover the sky without hitting unintended targets, because the distance between the drone and plane multiples distance between the ground lasers.
It's simple. Luke had no clue what to do. He just trusted The Force, like he was trained. It worked out fine.
I suspect it's more about maintaining a lowest common denominator. AP CS, last time I saw the data, is already mostly limited to wealthy schools, even compared to other AP exams. When there were two levels, the upper level was even more skewed.

Giving the exam electronically would mean schools would have to provide some kind of minimal computing environment to run the software. I'm sure there are some schools offering the course or at least letting motivated kids take the exam (I went to a better than decent high school, and Physics C was essentially an extracurricular with a standardized test at the end) who only have ancient Dell machines full of malware.
See http://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/. Portability. For example, I can use Rust on the JVM: https://github.com/cretz/asmble/tree/master/examples/rust-re...
It looks nice, but they mention "REALISTIC SPACE COMBAT", but the in-game footage looks like the ships have a maximum velocity, rather than a maximum acceleration. How could it be considered realistic? It's more like WW2 dogfighting.
Uber/Grab are usually cheaper than taxis in Singapore actually. But they use dynamic pricing based on supply/demand so if you try to get Uber on Friday at 6pm in downtown then price might spike a LOT. But 90% of the time they will be cheaper than taxis.
if i gave you a lambo with no gas in sight would you turn it down?
Well, it’s bound to silver in the amalgam so I’d assume it’d stay together…
I understand the attack, I dont understand how it could be mitigated using the same technique.
Do you really think he would risk something like this for a measly $31M investment? The guy is worth like $17B.

Maybe this is why I am not rich. I just don't have the right mindset.
At the end of ESB, Luke and Leia are together with the droids in the medical frigate, while Lando and Chewie are together in the Falcon. They have plans to meet on Tatooine to rescue Han. It would be surprising if, after meeting on Tatooine, they all went their separate ways to try their own plans.
I pop open the dishwasher as soon as it's "done" and take plastic items out so they can air-dry in the regular drying rack next to the sink. This robot doesn't actually have a drying cycle; just circulating air and venting should be sufficient, no heating element needed.

Found a good explanation here: http://dishwashers.reviewed.com/features/why-doesnt-my-dishw...
This sounds pretty much like what you are looking for: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

Given that linear algebra has become so vital lately (as others remarked already), the following new book appears better than the lot from an applied viewpoint: https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/vmls.pdf
Well, those aren’t civilized weapons, are they?
WASM can be good for other things too. It is portable and fairly easy to target. It's like asking "why emscripten of you have plenty of other languages to choose from, LLVM is good for executables"
There's a cool 2 part video series by Mikey Neumann that delves into the immediate post-release reception for each of the Star Wars films, it's pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij5fWCAnBPY
Relocate the company, not yourself. I expected the part of my post about working remotely to highlight that.
Technically no. Martha Stewart went to prison for making false statements, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. She was never charged with insider trading.
Honestly it should be standard in all browsers.
To summarize, Martha Stewart went to prison for lying to Federal authorities. [0] Securities fraud was not part of what she was found guilty of, AFAIK. I dunno, much like someone here said about Icahn, you think she's risking prison for a loss of less than $50K? I don't have nearly her money, and I wouldn't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Stewart#Sentence
I've always wondered if after a certain point the numbers quit mattering and it's more about the principle of doing good, which is to say optimal not necessarily ethical, business.
https://andela.com/
Previously unknown supercolony of 1.5M Adélie penguins spotted from space
> no safety or smog inspections for cars

I am surprised to see this listed as an advantage.
How does big stacks slow down perf?

I agree putting large amounts of data on the stack isn't a great idea, but I think it's mostly because (a) default stack sizes are quite small (b) they vary by distribution and even local configuration and (c) if you happen to be on any thread other than the main thread, it's the pthread stack size that matters and this is even usually smaller than the default main thread stack.

I never heard of it causing any problems for perf. Yes, perf unwinds the stack if you ask it to, but all the mechanisms will don't depend (AFAIK) on the stack size.
I went to a high school that could have easily offered an exam on computers (in fact, that’s where we took our state exams), so obviously my viewpoint is biased. Keeping that in mind, I think the skew towards wealthier schools will not worsen by requiring it to be taken on a computer. I’ve talked to people whose schools did not even offer the exam to students, because since they did not have the resources to provide a proper class, too few people expressed interest for it to be administered.
The parent's point deserves consideration

Martha Stewart wound up being prosecuted for "obstruction of justice" and "conspiracy", the go-to offenses when prosecutions otherwise hit a wall.

Stewart's prosecution came at time when insider trading appeared common and when regulators were looking for a visible victory. A celebrity prosecution gets a lot of press without actually angering people with real power. Stewart was a mere millionaire, not a multimillionaire or billionaire.

Edit: Well, I stand corrected, she was a multimillionaire at the time. Still it's hard not to see her as relatively small potatoes in the world of stocks.

https://www.thoughtco.com/martha-stewarts-insider-trading-ca...
Seven-Day Suspension for Zhihu App
Does anyone have a quote directly from the book? I agree with the point that a broken clock can be right twice a day, so someone with opinions I find reprehensible about subject a might have rational arguments concerning opinion b.

However since we are talking about concrete examples instead of theoreticals, I'd need to see some quotes to come to a conclusion at this point with multiple people telling me opposing statements as fact
You have those in China and Russia. Only they're run by private companies that dance to the state's tune.
Regarding the first few points, I’ve heard of remote villages in the Himalayas having schools with Raspberry Pis and 12V monitors. The whole system was powered by solar. They then have an offline dump of Wikipedia for students to use for research.
This won't help with the physical problems, but do check out Shinzen Young's material on pain relief. He describes practices that have helped many many people (known as 'sensory splitting' in the western medical world). I personally went from suicidal from chronic pain to being able to enjoy life due to these practices.
https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/art_synop...
Epilepsy is triggered by strobe lights in that frequency range, I think it is a coincidence.

This is a really great writeup of this project, by the way. I've been paying attention and didn't know half of what they had done.
True, but this title suites the site’s bias. I bet it’ll be left up for a long time.
At the moment Sonos works with Amazon's Alexa, not the other voice cylinders.
Answer to the first: absolutely yes. Answer to the second: yup, rich people typically look for how to game every system and gain every advantage they can.
Chance of lawsuit * expected payout < cost of paying employee for the rest of their paternity leave.

There's confounding variables in there too like the OP said with the idea that he was an example for the other employees to jot actually take their benefits
Pelican and Gitlab CI/CD and Docker and AWS = Awesome Static Site
And women are never jerks to men or women. Ever.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/women-reportedly-unciv...
Well, her civilization was wiped out a couple films prior...
As another comment pointed out, it’s not the first time he’s been accused.

This administration is the most corrupt we’ve seen in a long time[1]. It wouldn’t be at all surprising. And I can’t see anyone doing anything about it.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/never-have-we-seen-s...
> multiple levels of government within the state is in direct violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1324

Please elaborate on this?

Also, you're right, South Dakota is amazing. Grew up here, moved away to Redmond for a few years to go to school and look for work, and when I didn't find any, I ended back up here. I was surprised at how much I missed it.
Icahn, unlike Stewart, is a professional stock speculator. There's every reason to think a speculator makes their money "running their connections".

Moreover, if anything, Stewart's manifestly unfair and abusive case shows prosecutors choose their examples based not on how dirty the target is but rather how convenient they are. Those who go down, don't go down based on how much they break or skirt the law but based on their connections to power failing.
So a small solar + battery system to go with.
Note - I got bit by MIDIjs including Coinhive cryptocurrency mining scripts.

At the time (a few months ago), they had no mention of this on their website, so it took me quite by surprise. I see they have since added a disclaimer and are selling a "pro" version without this.
We're you 49/51 before or after you read about it in this thread?
Ahh, that makes sense - thanks!
I think they are just another money grab, wastes people time and also limits people's freedom of movements. So if you live in a state that does smog inspections, and went to college across the county. Better do a cross country road trip!
I mean, as of Oilpan the V8 garbage collector marks C++ objects by calling trace hooks, as I understand things. That isn't an option for Web Assembly, which doesn't have access to the V8 garbage collector in that way (except via the wasm GC proposal; in fact, that's fundamentally what the wasm GC proposal is).
Searching for the Woman Who Saved My Family from Homelessness
Scooby Doo ending.
What do you think of http://one.laptop.org/ ?
I think it's pretty clear that neural networks are developing concepts/abstractions of the object it's classifying.

Check https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/appendix/

I think some of the filters are pretty clearly developing "higher levels of abstractions".
Stewart was worth 10s of millions, probably closer to 100. I don’t get how that isn’t a multimillionaire.
a 40w solar panel plus battery plus charge controller is not cheap (nor small). i knew some people that put those together but all told they were about $500 with locally sourced parts.
I think you're confusing helping out this class with helping solving all of Africas problems.
Alderaan is a peaceful planet, so it’s not a great place to learn how to use weapons anyways…
There are plenty of simple templating options still out there. Twig, handlebars, and jekyll would all be good introductions in my opinion
Yes. Localbitcoins does escrow.
It deals with people here illegally... 12 states and DC let people who are undocumented get a driver licenses. https://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=...

Then if the police stop someone, they just ignore the fact they are here illegally. They call them sanctuary cities on the news usually.

Seems like their logic is it safer to have people who know how to drive driving than driving illegally, even if they are here illegally. Then also if someone witnessed a crime, they might not come to police due to fear of being deported.

Kinda the same way states are allowing pot even though federally it's illegal... The feds aren't going after states it looks though, I remember hearing somthing Obama's justice department wasn't going to enforce it in states that allow it. But Trump's administration could always change their mind. Banks still can't let marijuana dispensaries do business with them however, so they have to keep and haul around large amounts of cash. They joked that some day one of them would get killed paying their taxes, and they'd make a law named after them. High Profits was a good documentary on CNN on this topic. Watched it on Netflix a few years ago.

Kinda interesting though, if you habor someone illegally and they murder someone. That code mentions that you are also subject to the same punishment. So if the mayor of a city allows illegals, and a illegal murders someone and gets sentenced to the federal death penalty. That mayor could also be sentenced to death too. Doesn't seem like the people in washington has ever gone that far to ever do that however, but it seems possible from my understanding.
Nice job! It'd be even better to play the chord with sound
for those who don't know, this is the rumor for how VCs and such pay for prostitution in silicon valley.
Why not just send him $100?
africa doesn't need computers. it needs clean water, soap, anti-malarals, and nutritious food. cover those things and then worry about computers.
There’s a lot of this that reeks of the Great Leap Forward, e.g. when Mao had the peasants kill sparrows because they ate grain seed after plantings. The U.S. economy may be more resilient than post-war China’s... but one can’t help but wonder how this will turn out.
no i'm not. i'm just responding to the guy that thinks power isn't a problem and if it is then solving it is easy-peasy.
> IF YOU DON'T SIGN THE GUESTBOOK I MAY HAVE TO KILL YOU. HAVE A NICE DAY.

Well that was heart warming :)
Don't forget 2-3X that for customs duties, bribes, man-hours running across town for paperwork, etc. And that assumes it arrives at the final destination unstolen.

In my travels through poorer countries (and their aduanas) I've noticed an almost overt hostility to importing the very tools that might allow productivity to increase. They seem to perceive computers as luxury goods when assigning duties. It's hard to imagine a public policy that is more self-defeating.
It's significantly cheaper to buy hardware in China.
A Lamborghini would be pretty useless in most contexts, but if you gave someone a 1940s jeep they could definitely make use of it.
Yep. Two former world powers each making up 20% of the world , India and China, are grouped together as "Asian" in the US
How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’ Best Picture race
Why would he buy hardware at all?
I understand the reason why Microsoft Word would be one of the things which would be taught, but somehow that makes this story that much more depressing.
Yep. As I stated "I would actually be more worried about corrupt customs officials stealing the hardware." and "Someone who has a Facebook account (I don't) could ask the guy about shipping and customs issues in Ghana". It would probably make sense to expect some extra customs and shipping fees. That said, Ghana is definitely less screwy than many other countries in Africa.
There's a certain reputation -- I gather, not undeserved -- for rich people being some of the most tight-fisted you'll find. At least, some rich people.

Also, all humans have it in their nature to test limits. And what we are seeing, among some of the wealthy and would-be wealthy in the U.S., is that with each egregious behavior, particularly financial and economic, the worst they face is a fine that most often represents a fraction of their profit from the behavior.

So, yes, I can see this. Get rich by not giving any money away unnecessarily, practiced diligently and relentlessly over years and decades, combined with the lesson that you won't be punished -- at least, not significantly.

So, why "waste" 31 million?

I don't know that this is what happened. But I can imagine it.
> “What is that?” I ask, pointing to one of the silver trays of remains.

> “That’s a bone fragment. Probably a disc vertebrae,” Koslovski says, adding, “You can learn anatomy here.”

> “These are green,” I say.

> “I don’t know why. It could be something the person was treated with. It’s hard to say. It could have been cancer.”

> The crematorium puts the bones and ash that remain into a pulverizer, not unlike a food processor. The remains are then put through a sieve and into a container for the family—but not always.

If the average person knew this, would they still regard cryonics as creepy and gross by comparison?
Mao also had people melt down their woks to produce "backyard steel". Predictably the result was unusable and everyone was out a wok. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace?wprov=sfla1
Because he's a computer teacher and obviously enjoys it, and since his identity is known if he cuts and runs he's basically throwing away his livelihood and community good will for a small short term gain. Whereas, if he uses it well and posts images of kids learning, then there's a real chance he could become an ambassador for similar projects elsewhere and lead a fulfilling and respected life of meaning? I dunno, sometimes you can trust and help people instead of being a bitter internet troll and it works out well for everyone. Sometimes not, but I'd prefer to believe in people :)
Without even clicking your link, just looking at the URL: why cite an opinion piece as evidence of something?
Most laptops and tablets run off of battery.
This is somewhat patronizing. Have you tried asking rural African schoolteachers what they most need?

Empirically, many people all over the developing world are prioritizing communication devices over those other things you listed.
Very cool! Relatedly, I made something to help me come up with chord progressions. It's hooked up to Web Audio and Web MIDI, so it can either play the sounds in-browser or in my DAW. Please feel free to take a look and steal code ideas.

app: https://chord-progression-helper.glitch.me/

src: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/chord-progression-helper
Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch
It's stealing from investors and employees. Investors in an abstract, probabilistic way and employees in a very concrete, immediate, and dramatic way. "Interesting but already accounted for" doesn't make it right in the same way that an insurance policy covering auto theft doesn't make auto theft right.
When a process X creates another process Y, what happens is X becomes the parent of Y and Y becomes a child of X. All processes are created this way. They form a tree structure with PID 1 as the root. The very first process is spawned by Linux itself. Processes are isolated by default and thus cannot modify each other's state.

If we have a shell and we use it to start up a separate chdir program, we get two processes: shell (parent) and chdir (child). The kernel isolates them from each other, so they both have completely distinct working directories. The chdir executes the relevant system call, changes its own working directory and exits. The shell is not affected by the system calls performed by its children, so the chdir process effectively does nothing.

By implementing chdir as a built-in function, the shell is able to change the state of its own process.
Oh good. I've had conversations on the internet with Richard Eng and he seemed like a reasonable human being, even if we disagreed on software. The name of the subject of the article made me do a double-take.
I really dislike this aspect of our system, where participants (e.g. prosecutors) have so much motivation to build a personal career, over purpose to serve justice evenly, or sometimes even at all.
Someone asked Warren Buffett if he would pick up a penny on the street, he said yes.
This isn't really meaningful unless we know what proportion this is of his portfolio, what other trades he did over the last year, and what other positions he still has - all of which the SEC has access to. So I'll believe it when there is an actual court case