skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Propaganda mostly from the Republican party has convinced a great deal of people that Education is a waste of money. This is obviously stupid and false.

Apologies for getting political, but I come from a family of teachers in two red states (actually three now, thanks Wisconsin, you do love to hate yourself), and we're out of fucks to give.

EDIT: I know we don't like to get political here, but the question was "Why is America bad at education compared to other countries." First of all, it is bad, and it spends more than other countries, somehow. Makes sense when half the country has put their feet down stubbornly into the stand and said "pull yourself up by your bootstraps!" Or some nonsense.

Here's a great analysis of the Republican platform vis a vis education: https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-education/2016/07...

Inevitable disclaimer: obviously not all republicans are opposed to effective, common sense education, and obviously not all democrats support it. But uh... compare the platforms.
True. On HN i mostly don't even bother to write my own opinion if it's not in line with the mainstream. It will just get downvoted to death instead of sparking a discussion...
Animation libraries for javascript are actually already pretty decent. You can find way better stuff out there if you want to stick with jquery.

But declarative animation libraries are severely lacking. React's paradigm is amazing whenever you can write stateless functional components. But animation doesn't fit neatly in this abstraction since you always need to track animation progress state. So if an item is change/removed from the state, you still need to hold on to the stale value long enough for the transition, track the progress, and then cleanup on animation completion. This gets messy really quickly!

I don't think there's a consensus on how to cleanly abstract this part out yet so people get excited when there's a new attempt.
"Avoid wearing outward signs of support for Israel (and, if possible, symbols of Judaism) inside Palestinian areas as you may be mistaken for a Settler intending harm"

So you are saying it's not safe for a Jew to come. As wearing a kippah can lead to altercations.
I think that's a really good point actually, thanks for mentioning. I think people shrugged off the overarching privacy and surveillance issues of PRISM et al, even as egregious as it was, but once it comes out that FBs data shenanigans were being used to aid the most hated political figure in recent history, THEN it's a big deal. Thats kind of my point really. TBH though I'm just glad that people are catching up now and its reaching the masses. I thought the whole Snowden thing with PRISM etc was going to be a game changer, just this unbelievable revelation that confirmed the worst fears of the big data adtech industry and its potential for abuse, but had to sit in stunned silence as it was brushed off entirely without incident.
one should consider saudi arabia's case in particular: they are one of the few places that derives a tremendous amount of their electricity generation from the direct burning of crude oil (almost 1 million barrels per day).

each barrel that they don't burn is one they can sell instead, and this is a situation that makes economic sense for them now, regardless of future tech improvements.
I think react is overdue for more solid animation patterns, maybe that’s the thought? If you look at react/vx (awesome lib) and similar, they are still searching for/discussing best practices for integrating animations. Understandably since it’s a nice to have, but having some consensus on patterns/libs would allow maintainers to include animation work without fear of un-necessarily increasing bundle sizes etc.
From what I’ve seen, Musk has actually been flying Japanese engineers into the Gigafactory (no joke!) They literally have their own buses going back and forth to the airport.
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> have had a strong effect on the general public's attitude towards the practice

This seems like common sense, but do we have substantial evidence proving this, and to the degree of newspaper coverage we're seeing claiming public outrage? And if so, did the outrage precede the news coverage or follow it?
Jeff Sessions is irrelevant when it comes to passing laws.
>and such companies need to be highly regulated and are not

Reminds me of “when people say there aught to be a law... there amost always shouldn’t be”.

I hate Facebook, and I think Google is a fairly evil company - but government has shown me nothing in terms of regulatory success for me to say this is a government problem that needs a government solution.

I’m wary of people that seriously think “government can fix this!”.
This seems to be what made US-American culture difficult to understand to some first time visitors. From tips to donations and gun ownership society seems to have decided to make citizens take into their own hands many responsibilities which in other countries the government takes care of.

/e: Not to suggest that either approach is without flaws, just that the approaches are different.
Facebook has just updated privacy settings – Akin to “putting lipstick on a pig”
I talked to the other hams in high school using Morse code and a vacuum tube transmitter.

And get off my lawn. :)

I've actually joked about building a Bluetooth telegraph key to make texting more concenient.
Team is six people. First started using k8s in prod in May 2017 for monitoring.
Also built in-house tooling on top of helm.
It's no secret that the gigafactory is a partnership with Panasonic.
You cant compare nameplate capacity to actual energy production. You have to adjust the nameplate capacity by the capacity factor first.

It's almost certainly PV.. because the price -- $200B for 200GW -- matches perfectly the current price of a new utility scale PV plant ($1/Watt). Those plants have a capacity factor of 10-30%. It'll probably be close to the 30%. So that would reduce the 200GW to 60GW.
Not that the source is a bastion of journalistic excellence, but anyone using the term “data breach” is not helping.

A data breach is a real thing and has a legal definition, this wasn’t that.
The correct number for "defense" is 16-20% or so depending on how you count veterans' benefits. But again, it's worth asking yourself how much of that your neighbor is effectively allocating to "defense" and how much to "foreign aid". Because the US military sure doesn't spend that much time actually defending the US recently...

The "welfare" vs "social security/medicare" numbers there are off, of course (just about backwards, though if you count Medicaid as "welfare" that puts an 11% floor on the "welfare" number right there).
7-10 times the car would swivel toward that same exact barrier during auto-pilot

I think I would have stopped using autopilot during that particular stretch after the second such event.
Here's my suspicion, coming from a long line of teachers, and I had an article to support this recently but I'm having trouble finding it right now - spending includes not just what the government/taxpayers are spending, but what teachers and students are spending, because in this insane system we have, somehow teachers getting 45k/year (hah, if that) are having to dip into their salaries to get whiteboard markers and notebooks for their kids that can't afford it. Meanwhile, parents are footing the bill for all the other supplies.

Non communal education means costs are spread out means they're higher. The government could bulk purchase, for example, notebooks, at pennies. Instead, students have to get packs of them at a couple bucks. I know this won't be the case for everyone here, but some of you reading this might have the thought, "a couple bucks, really? Just skip starbucks for a couple days!" I recommend you read "Evicted" and learn a bit more about poverty in America if you have these thoughts, or we can email and chat more about it.

In any case, yea, education costs more here for the same reason healthcare does - America is caught between forward-thinking longterm investors that know that a healthy, educated populace is good for the economy, and, well I don't know what shitty excuse the other side is using lately but they're about short term gains and spreading costs among private individuals rather than communising them.
I've never heard of Digg, but I still read Slashdot (though it has certainly gone downhill since the 90s), Reddit (at least certain subreddits like r/boardgames), and HN daily.
Yep, great points. I was highly skeptical of closed sourced voting machines as well. Hopefully this new wave of awareness makes an impact, all you can really hope for really.
It seems Firefox has resigned to some sort of role as 'token' competition to Chrome.

Most of its actions seem inexplicable and counterproductive when strong privacy and user protection should be their reason to exist and keep a dedicated user base.

The bigger problem is exploding complexity in many areas is a huge concern for open source as it's becoming increasingly impossible for small teams to implement or come up with alternatives. This is going to reduce meaningful choice and leave users at the mercy of a mix of corporate or vested interests.
I can tell you what's killing Instagram for me:

- Too many ads

- Too much spam (fake accounts)

- Dark UX patterns (withholding notifications to encourage addiction)

- Unpredictable sorting behaviour (if I have a post with better engagement than another post in the Top Posts for a given area, why doesn't my post beat theirs?)

- Unpredictable behaviour generally. My posts get only 20% the engagement they did 18 months ago.
Definitely. It's all about learning a lot and then speaking with the confidence and ability of someone who knows what they're doing and comes across as able to learn more.
* Census never a problem before

* Now has a citizenship question on it

* Republican president

This is my shocked face that Motherjones now has an issue with it.

This is an opportunistic article riding on the Facebook data hype more than any real concern for security.
Is something on that scale possible here in the US?
You need to skip the main/popular parts of Reddit and choose your subreddits carefully. I personally spend a lot of time in r/boardgames which is an amazing community.
Fair enough, but my worry is if a building a plant 100x the size of the existing largest is a rational investment, considering that the area is ripe for innovation. The analogous case would be building a supercomputer of that scale 10-20 years ago.
There’s no helping if as an user, you give the keys to the house to the robbers. More specifically, everything posted publicly is public. It doesn’t matter how much the data is obfuscated by lack of API, it can always be mined. Any changes made in response, right now will be shortsighted. If an actor wants that data, he will get it, especially if it can sway elections.
> You have a university professor citing research saying that the 'acting white' phenomenon exists in integrated schools

...in the course of arguing that it's image as a feature of all-black communities is false. (Integrated is very different from all-black.)

> plus her own black students tell her they suffered from the 'acting white' stigma.

What sdoes is relate that the “bullying essay” is a well-known archetype of freshman comp essay, and the common subtype of that type of essay she sees is one conforming to a particular form of the “acting white” narrative.

Freshman comp essays from people who don't have stories they want to share reflecting the author inserting themselves into narratives from the common folklore of their community instead of actual personal experience is a rather well-known phenomenon.
Anything hobby specific generally has decent enough modding but the value of those depends on the quality of the community specific to the hobby, so for example I subscribe to a few Nintendo-related and Game-related subs. AskHistorians is generally always good. Changemyview is generally enjoyable but each thread can be hit or miss depending on the OP. I like listentothis for finding music, OldMaps, MapPorn and InfrastructurePorn are nice to look at. Neutralnews was pretty decent when I last looked at it but I don't use reddit for news anymore, and DepthHub is one of the few general purpose subs that generally always has something interesting.

As a rule, the more general purpose the sub is, the lower the quality of the community, especially if it has lax moderation. I'm not someone that is into gifs or "memes" so you'll have to ask someone else about those. I don't use reddit or any one site for news because I don't need that in my life, I have other channels for anything that actually matters. Programming subs are usually pretty good resources for whatever tool, language or technology they're promoting that you use or are interested in, but I steer clear from the pointless debates.

I would say search a few of your hobbies, whatever they are, there's probably a decent model train collecting sub but I wouldn't know, and if you want to use it professionally, search it for whatever tools you use. There's self-development subs like getdisciplined and most subs have others you can look for in the sidebar if you really want to dig down the rabbit hole, but go in prepared to unsubscribe from all of the defaults and build up your own personal collection of subscriptions from there.
I think MSN for me died when I finished middle school. Everybody kinda lost contact (going to different schools / apprenticeships) and we stopped writing.

Then new people I met (online and offline) were all using Skype. This was just right before Smartphones came out.

Then offline people slowly started joining Whatsapp or Facebook groups.

Online people stayed on Skype until Telegram took over a few years ago.
This is great news! I would love to hear comments from

Tim Berners-Lee: Is this the decentralized web he envisioned and was recently complaining that it gets increasingly lost?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berne...

Lawrence Lessig: About the legal implications in respect to his book Code is Law.

https://medium.com/wordsthatmatter/the-neutrality-network-e5...
Zebpay Advice People on Crypto Investment with a Long-Term View
Will you be able to delete a user's data to be gdpr compliant, while still using IPFS ?
Quickly scanned through the code. And I'm kind of disappointed that Pose depends on HTMLElement, making it web only. I prefer animation libraries that are built on top of Facebook's Animated library.

Thanks to react-native-web project by @necolas you can use Animated on web too. That opens lot of opportunities to share animations between react-native and web. You can even use react-native animation libraries on web.

Last time I did that with react-native-motion, which required me to change one single line to make it work on web.

However what I'm personally missing, is some react component for orchestration complex animations. There are yubaba and react-native-conductor, but still feel we can do better here. Actually I was wishfully thinking that Pose can help here.

Anyway hats off to anyone who is working on stuff like this. Doing it right, is actually pretty hard job.
This megaproject is going to be installed gradually through 2030.
Hi Sam,

It's a tangential question- What kind of real-world problems do you envisage being solved by blockchain first? ( Ethereum/ Ipfs/)

Also, from an proficient and experienced Software Engineer(with backend /infra side of things), what kind of blockchain-based projects would you find impressive to showcase one's skillset?
Clusters come up faster. They're easier to upgrade. Don't have to delete clusters to change them (just provision a new node pool). Persistent storage is less weird. No RBAC. Weirdness around kube-system namespace. I.e. if I create a registry there, it gets disappears with no logs or events suggesting why.
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I don't use GUI file explorers that much, but I have to point out even Windows Explorer has path autocompletion.

Just like using CLIs does not preclude using a mouse, using GUIs does not preclude using keyboard shortcuts ;)

Quick Explorer example (sometimes I mix and match, maybe I want to show something to a colleague):

explorer . # does what you'd expect; alternatively Win-e

Alt-d # focus path in Explorer

Start typing, Explorer autocompletes stuff

Enter

Tab around, if need be, to change panels

And this is with what is, basically, the dumbest common GUI file manager out there :)
Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, hits general availability
Erwin McManus – The Problem With Love

http://pca.st/episode/43d50de0-b75b-0133-2e57-6dc413d6d41d

Erwin McManus – Don't Give Up Your Freedom

https://castbox.fm/episode/Don't-Give-Up-Your-Freedom-id5651...

Erwin McManus – Why Jesus?

https://castbox.fm/episode/Why-Jesus%3F-id5651-id655230?coun...
That’s the thing though, right? How do you optimize for two contradictory objectives? The “simple” answer is that you align incentives and avoid the problem by redefining it.
Why the fk do these stupid companies then ask really hard Algorithm puzzles in interviews?

This is insane, what is imp? Giving too much info or not, asking more questions or not?

Oh man, sometimes I hate this process of interviewing.
South Korea Could Be the First Crypto-Powered Nation
Cool, thanks. Yeah, I work on https://twitter.com/posterbat (real site down momentarily – Facebook broke my scraper :/ )
"olivia wilde", // AND because SHE's "Thirteen"
"dr. remy beauregard hadley", // Why not 13's real name?!

These both made me chuckle.
South Korea’s Largest Firms Are Now More into Crypto Projects
Whatever stack you know the best. The technology really doesn't matter a lot, compared to a lot of other success criteria.

Unless the objective is to learn - then picking the one that you know best is not a good strategy :)
I really liked Google+ and it's Circles for this reason.
It was like a perfect mix of reddit and facebook groups.

Then for some reason they messed it all up.
Most people whom have expressed this sentiment to me have generally not been exposed to much more than the defaults.

Reddit with defaults or r/all is a horrible experience. It is what you make of it though, and if you don't make anything of it then it is obviously not for you. The advice I always give to someone trying reddit is to 1. make an account 2. unsubscribe from all of the defaults and 3. search it for whatever interests you. Pretty much everyone can find something for them, and moderation is going to be variable which I think is actually a net positive. A well moderated sub is a gem, such as AskHistorians, but not every sub needs to be moderated to the same extent as AskHistorians to remain useful or relevant either.
To be honest for something small and simple I’d just throw up a Rancher server and call it from Ansible.
Anonymous from whom? I think you should keep in mind that once 3 letter agency is on you then you'd rather be as famous as Kim Dotcom. At least then you have a chance of some people or organizations like EFF helping you.

If you're "anonymous" they could just charge you not just for your words in public, but for awful reasons and nobody will stand for you since you're just overall ciminal.
This exactly! I've been very surprised by the Facebook lover's faction on hn and definitely refrained from posting anything anti Facebook as a result. zer00eyz's comment above is already getting down voted and it's the truth!
I agree with the fundamental protections provided by privacy act legislation, but I'm concerned that the cost of compliance (hiring people to respond to every gdpr request, for example) prevents startups and smaller companies from competing with larger companies who already have lawyers on staff.
Wow take a breathe and think about 29m -> kids. It’s a good thing.
Thanks, yeah I posted it to different music subreddits, so I thought I should try and make it eye-catching :)
Agree. It would work out if the rain was destined for the ocean or other unusable area. Otherwise they are taking it from other people.
This great, I like the design. Removes clutter that most dating sites are filled with.

I would highly recommend implementing phone number verition on signup. I know its its hassle on the sign up flow but for a dating site the worst thing is for it to be covered with "hot single in your area" profiles.
In other news, in San Francisco, the NIMBYs won an agitation to prevent a 4 school building from being constructed.

I am kidding..maybe.

In all honestly, I think the time for US to create large scale construction projects that serve humanity (at the expense of environment) are over. We are lucky that the interstates got build in 1950s, that the NYC Subway was formed in late 19th century etc. Today, the regulations and outrage is so strong that none of these would have been possible.

It is good to see other countries such as China being on the cutting edge to see what is possible.
I am not arguing against your core point, but would like to point out that "unusual" itself is going to be difficult to define, as are terms such as "natural".
Interesting indeed. I wouldn’t say he’s like Buffet though. I think he’s more like Richard Branson.
Yes. We've had clients that have literally taken courses on how to dodge invoices for as long as possible. Well past our 30 day terms.
Wait... people who bought into a currency that is majority-owned by one entity would like some say in how that entity spends it?
>gives a hash containing some properties that scales with the number of reviews

That woudl IMO mean that once you have 10k reviews you can
scam some customers without worry.
He states in the Select Committee hearing that despite the nosering he is a right-leaning Eurosceptic
Terminals do have rich text, I have to point that out. Not conhost, the default one on Windows (though I think the latest Windows update might have it).

So you can have underline, bold, italic, squiggles, I think even strikethrough. Also you can have tooltip "windows" but since they're harder to create and manage few applications use them. Those that do are generally based on ncurses, a library for TUI (think Norton Commander or Turbo Pascal)

Vim even has a spell checker built in.

What the terminal does not have is usually consistent support because terminal emulators are really shady, there's no actual standard (most just do what xterm does). For the TUI thing, there's also no real conventions plus I'm pretty sure both Vim and Emacs don't use ncurses and roll their own (see: lack of consistency).

You also need to cobble things together out of packages with varying degrees of quality and documentation, from long forgotten wikis and 90's pages belongings to ex post-docs.
Middle school is usually 3-4 years. I think one cycle of that counts as generation ._.
This is great locally or at home, a lot of the time when I'm "browsing" it's on remote windows shares on another continent though, the latency from windows and the network is simply to high for tab completion to be usable, it makes using FTP over dialup seem snappy.

This is through cygwin, real linux is another story. I don't know what the difference is between how windows and linux mount remote drives, but the performance difference is stark, ls on a mounted network drive in linux is essentially instant but there is a noticeable lag doing the same from a windows machine.
I thought it was because MJ could be grown hidden in a hemp field, making identification harder.
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Now divide that failure rate from dollars invested in each project to truly see the differences.
Journeyperson? Next we’re gonna call mom and dad “parent and parent”
At least it is properly unit tested :D