skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exam difficulty can't be assessed solely on the paper, the difficulty is also a function of the curriculum - if they teach to the exam, covering only a few topics which are then examined, then the exam is easier than if it selects questions from a broader curriculum.
Haidt is a psychologist whose research and advocacy has in recent years moved towards political bias in universities, in particular he talks a lot about student and faculty driven morality-based censorship.

He started the "Heterodox Academy" which argues for and promotes ideological diversity (i.e. both left and right) in universities.
I actually think Jenkins is way too flexible for most use cases. We moved to GitLab CI which isn't perfect, but it provides safety rails/structure/opinions that pretty much provides an answer for everything you want to do, apart from maybe obscure corner cases that might not make sense for a CI/CD tool anyways.

Also you get the close integration of your CI tool and your git repos, which is very nice from a visibility point of view.

Having said that, GitLab is trying to own all parts of the build and deployment process, which from previous HN discussions, is of great annoyance to a lot of people who want to cherry pick what they use GitLab for.
black-box auction ads aren't as ideal as you might think - lots of brands put pressure on YouTube recently to change their monetization policies to exclude certain types of content.
Big Data Cheat Sheet: Batch Storage
Yeah, sorry but I don't buy that. webpack outputs JavaScript bundles, not a dependency graph. Importing PNGs into JavaScript is only useful if you use a JavaScript AST to then do something with those imports.
Of course there is a difference. You let others pay for your choices (studying). But it doesn't make it free.
I believe historically universities were elitist in that only the richest were meant to ever attend them, not the smartest...
It's not really common amongst europeans under 50.
Those points are why I said academic grades aren’t a perfect measure, and also “Only if everyone became a lot more skilled than their grades imply.”
>Its funny how a lot of people think its totally reasonable to expect YouTube to pay people to watch every video, and yet the people bundling the video think thats unworkable.

It's unworkable because it's impossible to predict what youtube thinks is OK. It's a black box whose outputs are often completely nonsensical. One of my favorite channels is TheReportOfTheWeek: it's just a kid sitting in his car reviewing fast food. There's nothing even remotely rule-breaking in his videos, yet he's been demonetized multiple times.
Grad Student Turned Pirate Queen – Sci-Hub
We had a decent council housing system in the UK which provided affordable rents. That and housing cooperatives/housing associations replacing landlords would be ideal.

I agree with the person you're replying to, the vast majority of landlords don't contribute anything to society and the idea that housing is an investment should be stopped.
This assumes that there is indeed no difference between fact and fiction. However, facts need to be consistent among themselves. In such a case where a fact can be disproved by a lack of consistency with directly observable phenomema, no appeal to trust is required. For eg. the earth is not flat, etc.
IMO retarded greedy ISPs issuing /64 prefixes to customers. Now you aren’t supposed to NAT but you can’t have multiple subnets either.
What's wrong with IPv6? The only complaints I've seen are "the numbers are bigger", as if that's not the point, and that makes them harder to remember.
Well, if we can redefine free to mean "I will let someone else pay for it" or "I will pay for it at some later date", then sure...
Not-So-Fat but Key Protocols
> I’m German. We have a 70-years tradition, well deserved, of being embarrassed by our nationality

But do you feel pain when non-natives try to speak german because they speak it incorrectly, or for some other reason?

I love german! I started learning it a few weeks ago, by reading the original Hilbert-Courant. I'll try not to slaughter your language by speaking it yet, though :)
At the university I studied at it was well known that their policy was opening up campuses in Africa and China so to entice international students to the campus in England.

This was for the sole reason of increasing cash flow and I know several of the Chinese students that I did my Masters with were paying more than ten times what I was for the same course which both myself and our lecturers were ashamed of.

It may not be all Universities but even ten years ago it felt that they had become less about excellence in teaching and more about printing money.
As someone who has been interviewed numerous times - the only time they ever even checked my university CS degree was for my very first job, and they only wanted it after I had already been accepted, to file it with my papers. The rest of the times I simply had the degree listed in my résumé.

This is IT, where it may be (even?) more lax than in other fields.

However, from following similar discussions for years, for example on reddit and also here on HN, with lots of people commenting who do or have done hiring decisions, the majority opinion seems to be that once you have a work history the particulars ceases to matter. Looking at my own two decades of experience, incl. a small business (sold), now another startup (of 40+ age engineers and business people, software), I would not care either. I had to check young candidates, it never crossed my mind to look at their grades. Talking and then seeing them work was far more revealing.

Related (NY Times opinion piece "The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews"): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-utter-...
> Government enabled private monopoly is surely anti-capitalist

Capitalism is defined by government maintaining a system of property rights defined to enable private monopoly, though this particular form does clash with the defensive propaganda developed by defenders of the system in response to the criticism of it for doing just that.

OTOH, that propaganda has never really aligned with the reality of capitalism.
it feels like youtube could avoid a lot of controversy by adding a button to tip/pay creators directly on the site. But the broader issue is that Google, an advertising company, will probably not do it. That's why youtube should break out of google.
Thorium Systems
I checked Aldi and two regional grocery stores near me...no public API. One does have a delivery service, but that API is closed off it looks like.
Sperm are produced by the testes, but sperm are a minority of the semen.
Still, I for one wouldn't want to be on a receiving end.
I would not attribute malice to such an insignificant detail. My guess would be that he prefers VIM over the others. I prefer VS Code myself, but an editor is a very personal choice for a developer.
d.tube seems a more realistic alternative
It often seems that the duplicate is different enough that they should remain separate. Or just as frustrating the duplicate relates to a previous release where the same question begs a different answer.
It should do - in theory - it needs testing though ;).

I notice that kops recently added support for Digital Ocean
https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/master/docs/tutorial...

So we should be able to add a command `jx create cluster do` for using kops on DO - the current `jx create cluster aws` uses kops under the covers to spin up the kubernetes cluster.

I’ve raised this issue to track it: https://github.com/jenkins-x/jx/issues/705
So, another ad-financed blog post, right?

Also the following is ridiculous:
"It's also obvious why it makes no sense to ask "Why don't you ditch Windows and install Linux on it?". Because no Linux distro has Pen support, whatsoever. The performance base also has a physical key that you need to press in order for the hinge to release the display."

Wacom has been developing Kernel modules FOR YEARS.
I've personally been using a Samsung XE700T1C for 4 years with full pen support without any problem.

I've even been surprised to see Ubuntu 17.10 supporting automated screen rotation, on-screen keyboard pop-up out of the box.
Lots of people who would have no problem accepting the fact that a house in, say, a beautiful coastal location is a luxury can't seem to accept that a central location in certain cities may be as well. SF/SV are something of an outlier in that there's very little that isn't very expensive within a reasonable distance. But many of the prime real estate cities have outlying areas that are reasonably priced.
Not that it detracts from your point, but the best offers I've seen for FB new grad are 115k salary, 270k/4 RSUs, and 100k signing, giving ~280k first year.
Maybe. It's currently just a safer bet to learn and use Python. Easier to get a job after you fail getting your next grant. I have so far seen zero Julia job ads. Hell, I see more e.g. Haskell and Fortran job ads than Julia.
Advertisers have been doing this as long as there have been advertisers. One that really blows some people's mind (although it's reasonably well-known by now) is that although hardly anyone thinks twice about a diamond engagement ring, the notion we have of diamond rings today was invented by advertisers in the 1940s: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/ho...

Similarly, Americans will ask for a Kleenex even when they don't actually mean a Kleenex-brand tissue. I didn't even think twice about this until I moved to Europe and it was pointed out how weird that was.

It's true the big tech companies make it easier to target segments of people by collecting data, but pervasive mass manipulation is hardly new or unique to big tech companies and generally it doesn't need nearly the amount of data that they collect. People are generally similar enough to each other psychologically that you can paint with broad strokes like demographics and still hit most of your target (and interestingly, some of the most viral memes have no particularly targeted message).
Ah I thought I'd imagined the BT router saying it supported IPV6. By the time I'd enabled DHCPv6 on my Mikrotik hardware, it had disappeared from the HomeHub dashboard.
I knew a woman in her 50s in London that was commuting daily 6 hours from one of the outskirts to another outskirt on the opposite side for a low-paying SWEng job. Frankly, why do people even bother moving to London/UK? Unless you are a finance person, a money-laudering crook from abroad or a top-school PhD in a hot field, your prospects are slim.
Strikes me that it's just a rebranding of flatshares for people who consider themselves too old and too professional to be living out a Peep Show esque post-university existence.
Nice collation of technologies used in Big Data today.
You should see the number of downvotes I got for my posts in this thread. You ask Michael Shellenger how much hate he is getting for proposing Nuclear is necessary in California or you ask Alex Epstein for that matter. You go see any climate catastrophe sceptics and you will see an army of people ready to shame them. If you don't see the shaming you aren't actually paying attention.

There is almost no middle ground.

Nuclear waste isn't the problem you make it out to be that's the point. It's the only waste in the US which is actually safely secured, solar on the other hand isn't and it's contains plenty of toxic materials.

Furhtermore new nuclear power plants can reuse already used uranium again making the waste problem even less.
Omi, so the OU is no longer free? :o
The one shortcoming that I ran up against repeatedly is the implicit initialization of variables to be a string containing the variable name. It turns typos from compile or run time errors into subtle bugs.
If you have good A-levels then it certainly used to be the case that you can skip first year.
> In London, living on your own after university is basically impossible (unless you live very far out).

Disagree, since I'm doing it right now 3 years after uni.

I'm not paid amazingly, below average salary for London but above average for the rest of the UK. However half my paycheck goes on rent. My commute is about 45 minutes by tube or 20 minutes by motorbike so it's not too far out. The trick is to find an area that's stabby enough to be cheap but hipster enough that there's decent bars in the area to help you forget. However I definitely got lucky, my rent is a few hundred pounds below market value.
Can you link to a few examples? (I sometimes moderate on SO, so would like to learn from previous mistakes.)
I'd note that the Serbians kinda lucked out and got it when it was at its least stealthy:

> According to Dani in a 2007 interview, his troops spotted the aircraft on radar when its bomb-bay doors opened, raising its radar signature.
Herman Miller Cosm Chair
This is absurd.

I live in Soho (Zone 1, as central/touristy as it gets), with my partner + 1 housemate.

We pay £2400, split £1400/£1000. The flat is nice too (fresh renovation, not an ex-council flat).

This is a dystopia to me.
Convert Between Render Props and HOC for React
I'm actually surprised you didn't like systemd, since it was modelled (in part) after launchd from macOS. Same for systemd utilities like logind; even the name was taken from macOS logind.
Tell HN: AWS Route 53 is facing issues while resolving DNS records [RESOLVED]
http://status.aws.amazon.com/

5:19 AM PDT We are investigating reports of problems resolving some DNS records hosted on Route53 using the third party DNS resolvers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . DNS resolution using other third-party DNS resolvers or DNS resolution from within EC2 instances using the default EC2 resolvers are not affected at this time.
> Youtube expects you to produce massive amount of content for them free of charge.

I think that's a rather one-sided entitled point of view, and here's why.

YouTube provides a hosting service for video content with no up-front hosting fees. They do charge advertisers to host their content and use a large portion of those fees to run their business, turn a profit themselves, etc. Also, they share a percentage of those fees with the content creator so they have a financial incentive to create more content.

Now, if those advertisers don't like your content they shouldn't be forced to pay for it. The creators only get paid if the advertisers don't disapprove of the message; YouTube is the middle-man in that scenario and basically bears all of the risk for the advertisers and have to "police" the content.

Granted everyone is better off if there is clear communication between all three parties and sure it would suck to rely on that as your sole source of income but that's some of the risk when you're in business for yourself. Content creators are basically throwing a video up on a market and hoping someone will pay them for it, right? Or am I completely off base here?
Experienced guitarists (well, I, anyway) can easily an instantly spot the difference between a modeller and a real tube amp. I also haven't found tubes too difficult to find; whether NOS or produced recently.

Audiophiles... I don't understand why you want tube amps. They are good for guitar players because of their imperfections (e.g. overdrive, "warmth", etc) which is the last thing I want when I'm listening to a quality recording.
The point that is being made, is that when advertisers claim that they don't want to be associated with certain topics, that is a lie. The truth is that they don't want to be associated with certain people.

As I posted in a previous comment, Coca Cola has no objections to having their brand appear every few minutes overlayed over the worst mass shooting in American history[1]

So, it rings quite hollow when people talk about sensitivity of advertisers to where their ads are placed. It is obviously not true.

It is pretty obvious that YouTube is intentionally driving away independent content like H3H3 productions through dishonest and inconsistent policies, in order to turn their platform into just another element of the cable TV cabal.

[1] https://twitter.com/h3h3productions/status/91474720399799091...
How to get ahead in getting your first Junior Software Developer role
Now Resolved:

5:19 AM PDT We are investigating reports of problems resolving some DNS records hosted on Route53 using the third party DNS resolvers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . DNS resolution using other third-party DNS resolvers or DNS resolution from within EC2 instances using the default EC2 resolvers are not affected at this time.
5:49 AM PDT We have identified the cause for an elevation in DNS resolution errors using third party DNS resolvers 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 and are working towards resolution. DNS resolution using other third-party DNS resolvers or DNS resolution from within EC2 instances using the default EC2 resolvers continues to work normally.
6:10 AM PDT Between 4:05 AM PDT and 5:56 AM PDT, some customers may have experienced elevated errors resolving DNS records hosted on Route 53 using DNS resolvers 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 . The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.
Google Has a Facebook Problem
> For example, Visual Voicemail used to be a requirement for iPhone carriers. Today, no such requirements exist.

I forgot to reply to this part. Visual Voicemail was never a requirement if I just put my own SIM card in. The SIM card was always a run-around any stupid policies. Only with eSIM now that backdoor is closed.
Imposing Regulations on Online Technology Giants
Ignoring fake news from ̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶d̶e̶a̶l̶o̶g̶u̶e̶s̶ left wing loons is even more bliss.

FTFY
King's Day Speech from Guido van Rossum(2016)
In all honesty, quite often the people are right.

I've seen so many questions where the poster comes in and already 'solved' part of the problem by making false assumptions (note: this can be by accident, it's normal for novices and even more advanced programmers to have a lack of diagnostic insight) and then asks 'I want to do this, how do I do this?' which is at that point simply the wrong question.

Practical analogy to one particular style of questions: I have a lamp and a switch, and I don't see any light when I toggle the switch and I go to SO to ask how to replace the lamp. SO people could of course come up with a perfectly valid and acceptable answer and leave it as-is. But SO people might know better and realize such answer might not fix the actual problem, which could be a myriad of other things (no power, no wires, switch broken, I'm blind, ....).
Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires
Recursion in Handlebar.js with depth level
1/3rd of the units sold? Or 1/3rd of the types of consoles? I know several consoles of the era also had DRM, so I’d be curious which ones youre referring to and the time period if referring to 1/3rd sold.

And if Denuovo actually helps sales is not an easy question to answer since no publisher has come out and said it (that I’ve seen).

The premise seems sound enough, sales follow an “inverse hockey stick”, so design DRM meant to delay cracking instead of stop it and you can get more time with maximum interest and sales, with no easy piracy options.

A few times it’s fallen in hours, and pirates started to write it off, but just recently Far Cry 5's implementation lasted weeks, which seems to be what they’re going for (some versions even lasted months on end).

One could argue no pirates would buy instead of wait, and one could argue all pirates would buy instead of wait, but both would be wrong and the truth is somewhere in the middle, publishers have evaluated that question and apparently the answer is something they like enough to keep shaving margins for
I don't think it is.

I have seen it said before that if you ask a girl out once its fine. If she says no and you continue to do it then its harassment. Except that how a lot of relationships begin. Pretty sure that the story of how Barack Obama got Michelle.

At one end of the spectrum its obvious. At the other end it's not.
I think by default it handles pdf417 but you could enable a few other formats through configuration. QR seemed to be easily supported by even the cheapest models 6 or so years ago. It's like the scanner tech itself kinda stayed the same but what changed was the connectivity to the PC, moving from serial to serial-over-usb. At least that's what it looked like with the sample scanners I had access to.
Programmatic is a big part of it (read: Youtube). It means that the ads business on Youtube has made massive strides in the past year.

That's not the only thing, but it's a big part of it.
I absolutely adore the concept of co-living, it's especially great for people who have moved cities or countries and don't have an established group of friends.

When I moved cities for work after university, I moved into a long term backpackers hostel. I ended up living there for a year, until I actually moved again and moved overseas. Sure, sharing a room with 3 other people wan't great, but it was amazing to live in this building with all these other (mostly) awesome people. It was a long term hostel, so most people were there for 3-6 months, so there was a lot of churn, but it wasn't like I had to make a new group of friends every day. There was no financial necessity for me to live in a hostel, I could more than afford to move into an apartment, but I just didn't want to.

Because of living there for so long, I now have friends all over the globe.

I now live in an sharehouse with 3 other people, and I really miss living in a hostel. I miss the dumb shit we'd get up to. I miss the massive shared dinners with 15 people. The thing that I miss the most though is that there was always something to do and someone to do it with. Even at 3 in the morning, there would be someone in the lounge to hang out with. Living in a shared house (where my housemates are very quiet), I feel massively understimulated.

Obviously co-living isn't for everyone, but I think that there are a lot of people who would really benefit from it. I find it hard enough living with only a couple of people, I couldn't possibly imagine living on my own. I guess I like coworking spaces for the same reason, as bad as they are for productivity, I really miss working in a coworking space now that I work in a small office with ~10 other people. In a coworking space of 200 people there's always someone that shares your interests and there's a different relationship between co-workingspacers and colleagues. We used to have a daily quiz at the coworking space, and a group of us would do the crossword, there was also a group who'd go to the gym together, and even a motorbike riding group.

There's a great TED talk on cohousing [1], which is a similar concept, but based more around having several families living in self contained apartments, but with a lot of shared space and activities. To me, that is the ideal kind of living situation, everyone has their personal space, as well as having communal space and activities. I've been living in my current house for 6 months, and the only reason I've even met one of my neighbours is that I accidentally stole their fridge.

I think that as people become more and more mobile, moving cities and even countries more often, it's important that we have these opportunities for socializing and meeting other people. It's seriously hard to meet people in a new city or country. With more people working remotely as well, loneliness is a growing issue.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/grace_kim_how_cohousing_can_make_u...
Things like state funded healthcare are free at the point of care and education is free at the point of consumption.

This doesn't mean they don't have costs associated with them as a whole but that for those actually using them they appear to have no personal cost.
Venezuelans+Shun+Petro,+Local+Fiat+for+Bitcoin
There are plenty of differences between the US and European phone markets, with simcard-less CDMA phones being the least of concern.