skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program in California. All I noticed was being pulled out of class for IQ tests. There were no IEPs, no extra homework, no special classes, nothing. The only thing I noticed was the music department of an elementary school tried to get me to play piano like some trained monkey but that didn’t work out very well. Also, being bused around 3 hrs (!) a day to a poor magnet school with gangs whom inherently hate smart white kids when there’s an elementary school a block from your house because of race quotas makes anyone resent affirmative action.

I went to a private school for K-3 so was way ahead of public school by at least 2 grades, and was bored 4-7. Oh and then my parents wouldn’t allow me to participate in grade skips or an internship at IBM Research Bernal Road. fml. I had the same cookie-cutter education as everyone else.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/gt
Have read innovators dilemma. There is little chance for YT to be distrubted at this point.

The problem for a competitor is YT was built during a period of time it was possible, barely, to do this. I say barely as in Google had a ton of engineering challenges.

Not sure if technical but serving over 1.6 billion hours of video a day is really hard.

But now with all the content in one place it is impossible to compete.

Wife and me talking about Marsha getting hit with a football. Just turn around and ask the Google Home to play it and it plays a video of the scene. Same with Mary laughing at clowns funeral.
First of all, I'd argue the effectiveness of marketing is pretty well established.

Second, I do think you have a point. To some degree these kinds of tactics have been employed before, but a) perhaps not as maliciously as this time, and b) I believe the landscape of 'influence' changed with the arrival of phenomena like Facebook as mobile phones, and perhaps it just took a while to properly 'weaponise' them.

On the one hand, I feel that this whole kerfuffle is a bit too hysterical considering, as you say, these companies existed before 2016. But on the other hand, many people worried about these things before and it's only now that the concerns are getting (hopefully) the attention they deserve. That's a good thing.

So while I think you have a point, ultimately I don't agree with your conclusion. I do not think it was 'just' that people didn't like Hillary and somehow happened to choose against their own interest.
American Adults Just Keep Getting Fatter: Nearly 40% of Them Are Now Obese
If they “simply wouldn’t hire them in the first place” then they aren’t hiring the correct number of employees to maximize profit.
> At-will employment would have changed little about Roy’s situation vs a huge international political bully.

That entirely depends on the country. There is no "huge international bully" clause in employment law.

Not to mention that I'm not sure about "the real bully". If you think that underpaid customer care agents have the responsibility for executing your business strategy in China, maybe you should pay them appropriately. Or maybe you should ensure that someone higher up the food chain takes the fall.
You're right !
I didn't include Flip Phones because they lack diversity and are pretty inexpensive. And people that buy flip phones usually don't search on the Internet websites like mine.
Hey @scientician, I have been reading about the Sudbury school for a few years now and do research on children's learning in relation to IQ (publications coming soon). Do you have any connections to the school?
Liquibase is missing some of the automated aspects that this blog post talks about but I know Nathan the developer is very amenable to people adding changes to the code base since I did that in the past with Sybase and SQL file support. I think more needs to be done to make always on migrations easier on the developers but it is doable.
> You'd still have deniability as to what your users are up to; after all, you can't be expected to police all the user-generated content faster than they can create it.

For now… This law is a stepping stone to government–curated mandatory content filtering.

Facebook & Google are already testing & developing the technology voluntarily[1].

The government will initially say you don’t have use it, of course, but maybe if you choose to then you won’t have to worry about that nasty liability laws…

If it’s voluntarily then there’s no 1st amendment issue, they’ll have their lawyers argue.

And the people will agree, nodding along in their safe spaces, as even now they mindlessly repeat that “censorship is legal,” don’t you know, “if the corporations do it.”

And at first it will be fine. But all that’s left for that censorship dream to become a sweet reality is just one final missing puzzle piece. To make the list secret. So close!

How will they do it? Maybe they’ll say that a list of hashes /fingerprints of illegal content is “facilitating” child pornography, because after all that’s how Torrents and DHTs work. Is a magnet link not facilitating piracy?

Not convinced? Just then Google will deliver with an AI technology to recreate images from the Fingerprints, not quite perfect, but the cherry picked examples resembling the original content just enough to make you feel uncomfortable[2].

Could the Fingerprints be modified to prevent it? Is it possible they were in fact designed with this exact goal in mind from the very beginning?

You don’t dare to ask. You are not a PEDOPHILE.

The list becomes secret.

Do you think this is far fetched?[3]

> internal documents showed Ulbricht knew he was facilitating the drug trade

They also showed him ordering hits on people[3] for as long as it was necessary to serve as a convenient distraction.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/11/facebook_fing...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...

[4] https://freeross.org/2014/08/31/mia-murder-for-hire-charges/
First to clarify is that Google is not doing this. Alphabet is. Second is that Alphabet owns Sidewalk Labs which is the company imagining this city. Sidewalk labs owns Intersection, a billboard advertising company. Intersection is the chief bidder behind LinkNYC. LinkNYC is installing free WiFi display stands across NYC.

The rest of the shot can be explained by someone else as I am not very passionate about the issue.
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Not quite..
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It's maybe not quite what you're looking for, but Cforall's polymorphic functions can eliminate nearly-all the unsafety of void-pointer-based polymorphism at little-to-no extra runtime cost (in fact, microbenchmarks in our as-yet-unpublished paper show speedup over void-pointer-based C in most cases due to more efficient generic type layout). As an example:

forall(dtype T | sized(T))
T* malloc() { // in our stdlib
return (T*)malloc(sizeof(T)); // calls libc malloc
}

int* i = malloc(); // infers T from return type
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No it just happens. But at times I get a dialog of "is this card valuable to you". Which pretty much for everything I answer yes.

But the default is a mixture. Plus I use Google services a lot and for a long time as I try to keep all my data at Google instead of spread around. So everything from DNS, to TV as we have YouTube TV. We have Google Homes, etc.

Wish we could use Fi but I have a huge family so not financially practical. That would keep my location data away from my wireless provider.
MS Outlook is still the best.
Yes, but I say we take what we can get as far as mainstream attention, for now.
Docker really needs to provide some transparency around these decisions. People are concerned about the future of the ecosystem. They have every right to shutdown aspects of their offering. But the community deserves an explainstion. This notice didn’t even attempt to explain the decision. Is Docker stopping development on swarm? Getting out of the PaaS business? Downsizing?
@brendangregg - superb work!

Do you (or anyone else here) know if something like this exists already, or is in the pipeline, for raw sockets in Linux?
Propaganda works.

The rah rah USA USA USA bullshit of my youth took a long time to get deprogrammed from my brain. Marketing/propaganda toward youths is even more insidious and effective over a lifetime. Although, facebook/twitter/etc have really upped the game for adults.
No matter how much the society at large wants to tiptoe the subject, the concept of race has never fell into disuse wherever facts really matters, such as in healthcare or the legal system.
What we can learn from the minimalist film 'Locke'
It's interesting to think that an article so reasonable, and so grounded in knowledge, would also get you called names if you posted it on Twitter. Empirically, this field would appear to be the one most likely to yield Galileos in our time. (As in Galileo's case, without any deliberate attempt on their part to be heretics, just by following the truth where their era's zealots don't want it to lead.)
500 is low compared to the overall brazilian population, but it is significant when you consider it is the wealthy brazilians ( a small portion of the brazilian population ) who are doing this. It's the wealthy elite who drive society so it is an interesting take on the elite's mindset and can shed a light on parts of brazilian society/character/ethos/etc.

In the hispanic and the greater spanish colonial world - "white is right" is a core ethic. It's how the spaniards ( with low numbers ) managed to rule so much of the native americans, asians, africans, etc for hundreds of years. It's interesting to know this also played a role in portuguese colonial world as well.
How dev.to could topple Facebook
My early life was miserable for the exact reason that people wanted me to "have a childhood" and held me back from what I really wanted to do. I didn't work as a programmer until I was 16.

I do agree that "gifted" programs are mostly a waste, given that schoolteachers are unlikely to have any useful advice for any given students' area of interest.
Tobe
What is Tobe about?
The ruling elite in russia a literally gangsters.
minikube is a specific version/distro/packaging of kubernetes meant for testing on local laptop.

Docker Swarm runs exactly the same way with exactly the same components and with the same ease on laptop as well as the cloud.

TL;DR - you cant run minikube in production.
If these students go through a process like Project Bright Idea, as I mentioned, they would get the resources and mentorship they need. If they can't demonstrate it after that, they probably don't have it.
Manufacturing is on the rise in america once again.
Colour me jaded, but I think the only reason this is getting a new state law and criminal charges is because the deceased child’s father is a Kansas state representative.

I think the criminal negligence around known injuries and record suppression is pretty valid, but attacking the credentials is a cheap shot. The designer was a hacker that had been designing water park rides since the 60s. He just didn’t have the modern degree in the field he basically invented.
I do NOT weight any news sources. It is just what happens or the default. I like all sides personally. But know some do not. Probably most do not.

I am naturally a super curious person.

I have zero problem with the UI on all devices. A big part is I am also use to it as I read news a lot.
The magic phrase you want for Mr. Google is “legislative drafting”. In fact there is a long-existing methodology in government for writing laws and regulations. Here, for example, is the US House of Representatives’ guideline document: http://legcounsel.house.gov/HOLC/Drafting_Legislation/Drafti...

Chesterson’s Fence.

Having said that, I am a tax lawyer and I view the output of the Federal government as astonishingly bad. Poorly-written laws cause millions or billions of dollars of friction to taxpayers.

There are many reasons for why laws are written so poorly:

- the people are stupid or malicious or lazy (appealing but this conclusion reveals more about its holder than its object)

- the task of writing the law is impossible

- the people writing the law are technically deficient in this style of writing

I’m sure you can think of others.

There is another factor. After you have been a lawyer for a long time, you see the folly of believing it is possible to write binary yes/no rules to govern human behavior. Politicians believe this. An economist would call this a belief in a static economic model.

Thus, politicians think “we will impose this tax and collect a lot of money”. Then they are shocked because people change their behavior and avoid paying the tax. I do not mean maliciously. I mean like a toll-road. Imposing a toll for driving on a road will affect the traffic patterns and fewer people will drive on the road. Less money will be collected. Economists think that way. Politicians are not as . . . astute. (That statement reveals more about me than it reveals about politicians as a group). :-)

Back to why laws are so badly written. There is a second reason and it is mentioned in another comment. Lawyers and judges are comfortable with ambiguity. In tax law, we often ask for penalties to be waived for “reasonable cause”. WTF is that? Yet it (more or less) works. At the margin, some people get away with stuff that “should” be penalized. And some people are penalized “unjustly”.

This discovery in law is the result of centuries of evolution. It works. So if you see ambiguity, understand that it is a feature, not a bug.

But for tax law, quite often I think of the rules as a broken set of algebra rules written by teenage sociology majors while drunk, for bribes. Over decades. Again, this reveals more about me than the United States Code and the Treasury Department.
That's got as much to do with watchmaking as putting decals on your car has to do with engine fabrication.

If you want to make watches for real you should start by making clocks and work your way down in size as you get more experienced. It will likely take you a lifetime to master the skills unless you can find a watchmaker to train with (and not a movement packager).
AWS has a registry as well. Both solutions are and easy way to host private and public repos. But Dockerhub offers access to a huge ecosystem that everyone is already plugged into that would be devastating if it shut down. You’d potentially have to re create so many base images from scratch.
The skills shortage in my experience is at the management level and above. The number of people that aren't remotely qualified to even be an "IT Guy" that are in management roles are astounding.
Einstein did receive good education and, perhaps more importantly, personal mentorship from his uncle and a family's tutor, who was a medical student, from an early age. All evidence suggests that his family cared very much about the quality of his education.

His tutor went on to become a successful ophthalmologist who was well known for his success in treating cataracts. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Talmey)

http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/einstein/section1/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

I agree with a sibling comment that the world probably misses out on many potential Einsteins because of inadequate mentorship and nurturing of high-potential children.

I agree with you that many ideas from gifted programs should be implemented in curricula for 'regular' and above average kids as well.
I’ve been contracting in London for about 8 years now. In the last 2-3 years one of my primary criteria is that i only work till 5 and at least one day from home. Some of my best contracts, both professionally and financially came after implementing this filter. There’s hope.
Can anyone here offer advice for doing anomaly detection in distributed systems?

I'm not looking for advice on which models to use, per se. I'm more interested in how to go about things as a single-person team (building data warehousing infrastructure, etc.)
There is a LOT of things to cover here, this tool chain is just the tip of the iceberg. The EVM is open source on steroids - not only is the code open source but every cpu cycle, memory access and IO activity is executed in the open, and replayed across thousands of nodes by anyone, anywhere as a necessity.

This is probably one of the most exciting paradigm shifts in recent times, being able to call services / functions that are cryptographically verified is an incredibly powerful tool, and may one day become a standard part of the web stack. There is still a long way to go, but what a time to get involved!
Ask HN: For those who don't have children, what do you do during your free time?
A similar story is detailed in a booked called The Power of Moments. In particular, they focus on the shaming that they do to change behavior
The science has been settled since the 1970's. Since then it has been a political issue and football that has been kicked around and ignored for a long time. The collapse of Kyoto in the 1990's was probably the moment when I knew humanity wouldn't choose to save its habitat and certainly wasn't interested in doing it in the least expensive way, which is what the 2C warming "goal" is about, it is the cheapest route.

Alas the USA collapsed the deal then and it is on its way to trying to collapse the Paris agreement now. The oil companies are fully aware of this and have been as long as we the people have been since the science was settle 5 decades ago. They can't be sued for our collective choice to not do anything, that isn't fair.
Not the OP but yes, and Clawsmail. Still keep coming back to Thunderbird. There are so many useful add-ons it's hard to leave. And add-ons are easier to write.
A beautiful, and simple, addition to the C language would be a mechanism to assess the remaining stack size. This is trivial to check in assembler, but practically impossible in portable C.

Indeed, thanks to VLA, the stack can be used as a clean notation for raii. You just replace this ugly, but very common, construction

void f(int n)
{
float *x = malloc(n * sizeof*x);
// ...
free(x);
}

with this

void f(int n)
{
float x[n];
// ...
}
Sadly openly federated XMPP is far from ubiquitous (relative to SMTP, or HTTP as federation success stories, or proprietary alternatives like WhatsApp and Slack).

Matrix is also far from ubiquitous too, but we categorically did not create it out of NIH syndrome. The whole point was to provide a protocol with entirely different primitives: history sync rather than message passing; group channels rather than 1:1; decentralisation rather than federation. And also a totally different governance model (no extensions; just a fat monolithic baseline that should “just work”). Obviously the experiment is still on and it remains to be seen if Matrix will succeed to the point of being ubiquitous, but to accuse it of being NIH is massively to miss the point.
First, it is about China. In fact, I think an ISIS or Anti-LGBT tweet getting liked would be less likely to get someone fired! Marriott is concerned about the Chinese government shutting down their business for a nation. an ISIS/anti-LGBT tweet getting liked would piss people off, get explained away as an obvious accident (especially if the employee were to explicitly apologize and explain themselves) and we'd move on.

The Gods of Chinese Empire apparently do not tolerate slights.

This behavior of greedy Western corporations playing ball with China is flat-out embarrassing.
I feel bad for guy. Everyone has had some mind numbing task that causes you to space out. But! Here is a half baked app idea that might prevent, or at least reduce, this unfortunate situation. Make it like the nuclear launch systems in movies (probably set in rural Nebraska deep down 300 feet below a corn field). There are multiple people getting the same social media feeds. They react independently, but actual responses are delayed. If all the people noticed an event (tweet etc) it goes into a further consideration pool, the rest are dropped. In the further consideration pool, event reaction only get out and leave the system (become real) if the majority are in agreement. In the binary situations it’s a simple vote majority. In free form text, use ML to characterize the content into a few buckets (affirmation, lukewarm, negative and joke (or whatever)). You should call the app “social kaboom averted.”

Personally, I want to live in a society where all three of the voters vote for Tibet over bastard commies. Eff Marriot, or no, wait. Eff Mary-rot!

The system could also work on a delay. So the same person has to double check their own tweets (and hacker news comments) after x hours. That app is called “sleep on it.”
Not true in the slightest - Hillary won basically every single urban area. That was true across the whole nation.

Where the most people are, actually interacting with folks from different backgrounds and places, she won.

You’re spreading the same lies that were bought and paid for by people like CA. It’s no surprise you’re arguing against the effectiveness of these people: you’re the poster child for their victims.