skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In section 4 (Creating an Online Course), the author links to her other article[1] about creating a WordPress membership site using plugins but specifically states these are free registrations that do not handle payments. I wish the author did explore payments more because there are WordPress plugins[2] that do provide subscription payment and reoccurring billing services integrated with payment gateways that truly allow a CMS to be monetized. The issue I see is that WordPress is the only CMS platform that offers such easy membership, payment and content restriction integrations. Have others seen this kind of functionality in other CMS platforms?

[1] https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/build-a-membership-site-on-wor...

[2] https://www.paidmembershipspro.com, https://docs.restrictcontentpro.com/article/1593-restricting...
> The current interpretation of the Establishment Clause requires schools to prohibit student-led prayers at school events

This issue is still in flux and is more complex than this.

Santa Fe ruled that the school's practice of running an election to select a person who then says a prayer on a PA system before a football game was unconstitutional.

But after Santa Fe was decided, the 5th circuit ruled in favor of Ward by finding that explicitly prohibiting student-led prayers is also unconstitutional! (At this point you've got to feel real bad for the school... damned from one side and damned again by the other.)

Also after Sante Fe, Texas passed RVAA which explicitly allows student-led prayers at school events. The constitutionality of those provisions have not been tested in SCOTUS.

So generally, the current state of affairs is quite subtle and messy.

Student-led prayers at voluntary student-organized events are certainly allowed.

Employee-led prayers in front of students are certainly not allowed in any circumstance.

Everything in-between is murky, and none of the case law is particularly revealing. E.g., what if Sante Fe had not used the PA system and didn't have any voting/guidelines about praying? Much of the legal reasoning in the majority opinion would not have been applicable.
I think this is extremely common. Problem is that CS101 coding interviews are common now, and EEs are just not prepared to speak that language.
Surely op's statement is hyperbole.. I hope.
I think that Rails using Ruby was a big deal. It was definitely different. Not sure if it was forward, backwards or lateral but it certainly was a big change beyond just "convention of configuration."
>>"The issue isn't that wages have grown to slow, it is that important costs have grown to quickly."

>And employers bear the responsibility for that.

Per the article [0] after adjusting for inflation "That makes the current cost [of college] more than two-and-a-half times as much as it was in 1988 — a markup of 163 percent."

How are employers responsible for a 163% increase in the real cost of college?

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/how-much-college-tuition-has...
Smart Contracts of the Future? Vyper and Plutus
I would say that Moneyspire is superior because it's a full desktop app, and similar to Quicken. So it has a lot of power and speed, and the workflow is just better. We also provide an optional Cloud service so you can share your data with your other computers and mobile devices (iOS, Android coming soon). Also, you can keep your data local if you would like since Cloud is optional. The software securely connects to your bank through our partnership with Yodlee (one of the biggest and oldest financial aggregators) - everything is handled securely through their service, and we never get any of your usernames or passwords.

Thank you for your feedback on the bank search on our website (we're working on improving that).
I'm not sure how worthwhile it is writing any more "microservices are dumb" articles - all the people who have spent the last 5 years leaving microservice messes in their wake appear to have moved on to creating "serverless" messes of lambda functions which people like you and me are going to be going around tidying up in about 5 years from now.
I bike commute 6 miles each way 4-5 days a week, about 1/2 on the Burke and other paths. That is where my comment comes from. (A day late to amend, I suppose)

Especially around UW, there are ALWAYS rental bikes in the way. Not always dangerously so, but adding to congestion.

I am trying hard not to be too old-man-crotchety about this, but the part where the business model of these companies depends on storing assets on the public right of way ... grinds my gears.
It's called: a distributed monolith
Iron (Fe) Public Beta DevOps Evolved
This is what you want: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/se.pdf
>Attackers need to be able to place a camera with thermal recording features near a victim, and the camera must have a clear view of the keys for the Thermanator attack to work.

Wouldn't be easier to just set up a regular video camera which can be the size of a jacket button?
I think what was missed, in the article, is that the fundamental problem was centered around a shared architecture of destinations and shared code.

You cannot possibly have every destination be a separate repo and then have the development lifecycle of your shared code be so active that it ultimately puts at risk the architecture of your entire organization.

What makes shared code so perfect is having stability such that you extract your variant code into your non-shared code. Shared code should evolve at a much slower pace than your non-shared code or you risk this very outcome.

Microservices are not dead, nor are they the solution to everything. We need better architects.
Beyond the Hard Drive: Encoding Data in DNA
I agree, people never seem to have a clear definition of rationality; usually they mean empiricism or just generally agreeing with majority opinion.

So many people argue that mathematicians sometimes go nuts because of a failure of rationality, but to me it seems to be exactly a failure of this unconscious-intuition, which undergirds rationality.
Why Your Brain Tricks You into Doing Less Important Tasks
You clearly don't live in Minnesota, where the mosquito is the unofficial state bird.

I come inside quickly in summer because there are mosquitoes and flies all over the place. Doing fireworks with my kids last week, I was deliberately standing downwind in the path of the smoke bombs to get some relief. I'm religious about not having standing water around, our cars are covered in bug carcasses after a 10-mile drive. I literally feel mosquitoes bouncing off my forehead as I walk through my dark backyard. I kill massive deer/horse flies constantly.

If insects are dying, it sure ain't around here!
The whole article reads like BS to me.

So the initial problem was a single queue? Well, then split the queue, no need to go all crazy splitting all the code.

Switching to 100+ microservices? There is no need to switch to 100+ repos too, runtime services don't need to have one repo per service, just use a modular approach, or even feature flags.

100+ microservices, some of them with much lower load than others? Then consolidate the lower load ones, no need to consolidate "all" of the microservices at once.

Library inconsistencies between services? No, just no, always use the same library version for all services. Automate importing/updating the libraries if you need to.

A single change breaks tests in a way you need to fix unrelated code? WTF, don't you have unit tests to ensure service boundary consistency and API contracts?

Little motivation to clean up failing tests? Yeah... you're doing it wrong.

Only then you figure out to record traffic for the tests? HUGE FACEPALM, that's the FIRST thing you should do when dealing with remote services!
Manifold Enters the Iron Age
It's actually very hard to claw back gifts and almost impossible to claw back things that were sold.
Easy until you have 100,000 of them anyway, in which case it's expensive and slow to run it for every dev. (At that point you have enough devs that microservices 100% make sense, though)
In Serverless Framework you can specify memory per function so it stands to reason making multiple copies at different memory levels would be pretty easy to test, even concurrently.
> the costs of your system are probably way more than the value created for society via patents

Also in the case of MPEG?
Reality check is that armies do the math and do leave people behind. Rescuers do risk bith lives and life time injuries, but won't go into action that is likely to kill more of them then the amount of saved people.

That book is fiction, fun to read but still made up.
The claim wasn't that the system is "unworkable" in the sense that it's causing world hunger or something, but that the system doesn't "work" in the sense that, in aggregate, it's not "promoting progress of the useful arts."

People will certainly use patent protection where it is available to them, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't have invested in those technologies solely on the basis of first mover advantage [0], and the lack of any observed effect of strengthening the patent system and increasing the scope of what is patentable on R&D spending tends to back that up.

[0] ARM would need a different business model, but it's unclear to me that other business models (i.e., Intel's) wouldn't have been just as successful, and wouldn't come with the social deadweight loss of patent trolls highlighted in the article.
The part that really called my attention is this one:

>>Cells pick up damage all the time, either through environmental exposures or simply as a byproduct of their normal metabolism. If the damage is sufficiently critical, the cell will respond by committing an orderly sort of suicide called apoptosis, which keeps it from causing any further problems. For lesser damage, there's a less drastic alternative called senescence, in which the cell remains active and contributes its normal functions to the organism's health, but it commits to no longer dividing.<<

Old people, lots of senescence cells no longer dividing, young people, lots of young cells still dividing. Aging kind of makes sense when looked at it this way. As long as cells are able to keep dividing you may be able to stay relatively young.

Knowing nothing else it seems that you must keep the number of senescence cells low to keep the effects of aging at bay. Of course, it is probably much more complicated than this. At a minimum this may be a piece of the puzzle to figure out long life.
GE just died (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/26/ge-ceo-john-flannery-im-very...)
I doubt you'll find many people dropping Elixir for Go...

And Ruby was a major leap forward ~ in productivity.
I've heard Jamie Alan talk about copying shared code into the services. I think shared libraries are an antipattern.
What are "bind variables"?

I'm not talking about a search API, I'm talking about code units that ask myriad questions of the database in order to implement myriad business logic. If you don't have the problem of asking myriad questions of the database, fair enough, but that is a simpler database-connected-software use case than any I've come across (including the ones I thought were pretty simple). I'm very curious now what your service does :)
Seems like it only looks for the 32bit FF binaries on windows so I can't run it sadly. Even tried copying over the 64 bit to the location, but I guess as expected got a reference pointer error.
How dare you slander our lord and savior Elon Musk! /s

Seriously though, there's a strong cult of personality at play and HN readers frequently downvote any comment that is even slightly negative about Musk or Tesla or SpaceX.
http://www.bitcanal.com is down.

Did they host it in their AS and now their AS is unreachable?
You can draw lines in this, you just need some way to apply styles to them ... some sort of style sheet ?
MDs are limited in quantity due to regulation, as you point out, but that also means the competition to become one is rather brutal. Long schooling, residency, work hours and then most specialities end up with only upper middle incomes.

Doesn't sound like cheat mode at all to me.

Hitting a boot camp and then pulling $100k+ doing web dev is the cheat.
Rehabilitating the Arrogant Engineer (2012)
Premature automation ought to be the root of all evil instead.
> But Kavanaugh argued that ISPs are like cable TV operators—since cable TV companies can choose not to carry certain channels, Internet providers should be able to choose not to allow access to a certain website

For all the legal scholars:

Would there be any legal distinction between signals which are broadcasted (as in traditional TV, whether digital or analog) and the structure of the internet having packets exchanged which ultimately contain two MAC addresses between two entities?

Note: Not a network engineer so additional comments on domain specific nuances I may be ignorant of are welcome.
Not everyone agrees about the aviation patents:

"We show that despite the existence of basic aircraft patents, aircraft manufacturers faced no patent barriers in the market dominated by government demand. We show that the notion of the aircraft patent hold-up is a myth created by government officials and used to persuade the Congress to authorize eminent domain condemnation of basic aircraft patent"
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2355673
A similar button ("I am 18+ years old") seems to work for adult sites, so why not here?
Much of my favorite music as a kid were soundtracks from 8 bit video games, demoscene releases and background music from loaders and cracks. They also influenced my early tastes/trajectories: I discovered Mike Oldfield, Jean Michel Jarre, and OMD from a single C64 SID release.

All traded on 5-1/2 floppies among friends.
And by "soon" they mean 47 years from now.

I wonder what they consider "long term."
Military people are on average more pro war then average population. Military leadership gains power with wars and looses it with peace.

Pacifists happen to join armies less.
NUMMI failed because it was located thousands of miles away from the automotive parts supply chain centered in the Midwest. The distance made the logistics too expensive for the plant to be cost effective during the recession. If not for the recession reducing demand for automobiles, it is likely that the plant would have remained open and led to the development of a supply chain on the West Coast.

Meanwhile, the numerous aerospace factories in Hawthorne and the LA South Bay seem to be doing fine, largely because LASB is the center of the private aerospace parts supply chain.
They are on day one, sure, but if the file format is documented and clear then there's no reason why other managers couldn't interoperate. It's not as good as using an existing standard, but I'm not sure there is _an_ existing standard right now.
> doing the back of the envelope math in college

Sounds rigorous
He has some valid complaints, as did Ted Kaczynski. Dropping out of the world seems as unlikely to make anything better as blowing up random people.
I am not a lawyer and you can feel free to tell me I'm wrong or specifically where I'm wrong if you know more law than me, but I know there are a lot of "clever tricks" that you might think of, that you might usually be pretty much able to get away with in most circumstances ... that are technically (or blatantly) fraud and if caught, you might actually not so much be able to get away with it.

For example, if your parent is past retirement age and has a sizeable nest-egg, which you've transferred into your own name with their permission, and then considered as yours, knowing that you are the executor and they are assets that are assigned to you in the will... call it a "trust" because your parent trusts you, maybe with Power of Attorney...

Well, this might be legal in and of itself (I don't know specifically), but maybe it's actually not legal if you failed to document it properly. There are limits to the amount that you can gift without paying taxes. Was it a gift, or is it a trust? It might matter for tax reasons, or estate settlement reasons, or both.

And one more reason that it would need to be carefully documented, even if you can legally do this is: say that your parent needs nursing care in their final days, and on paper they are flat broke. But actually this trust exists. Well, if it wasn't a crime before, to make the transfer in trust without proper documentation, it certainly becomes a crime now if they apply for medicare benefits to keep the nursing homes from "getting their hands on that money," that's medicare fraud and it's very serious.

That's also pretty far from the original topic, but it's not as far as it might seem. There can be cases where something would have flown under the radar even if it was illegal, but now there is an estate involved, and those things are going to come to light as a result.

If there is a major credit card debt and there are no assets in the estate that can pay for it, then it seems likely that there will be more questions after that. "Are there any hidden assets" can be one of those questions, and there's certainly a spectrum of answers that varies according to whether those assets might be in the form of a gifted sandwich / some jewelry / a car / a boat, etc. and whether those gifts were legitimate or fraudulent.

It will be very hard to get the assets back, but who knows... it might be pretty easy to nail someone with a fraud charge if it was fraud and they were sloppy.
In the UK debt can not be inherited. A debt that is shared (severally or collectively) with a dead person is different. The main reason for this is that under common law you can't be held liable for other people's actions or inaction (unless you specifically agree to it; i.e. being guarantor for someone else's debt).

Any assets left after debt has been settled by the estate can be inherited. If the estate has more debt than assets then the estate is effectively bankrupted but it would normally be handled by the Probate Court (the court that handles cases of death estates amongst other things) rather than the Court of Chancery (Bankruptcy court). In days of yore both the Probate Court and the Court of Chancery were a part of the Court of Equity (in effect a court of common law) and so the Probate Court had very similar powers to the Court of Chancery and hence the Probate Court would handle a bankrupted estate rather than turning it over to the Court of Chancery.

EDIT: added explanatory clause
"The entire response is a really cheap, nonconstructive appeal to motive and is quite frankly full of vague personal attacks."

You should be the last person to complain about this...
> is ultimately why the cabinet Brexiteers achieved nothing and eventually have had to resign.

Are you sure? I thought their original plan was to lose the vote and run on "I told you so" for the rest of their careers. Having won, they had to accept positions offered to them out of spite, but they want to be as far away from the result as possible to say the fallout of renegotiating everything as a country with an unknown relationship to every other country is not "their" Brexit.

I for one look forward to seeing what the EU thinks of Britain's difficult to reach internal agreement to steal everything that isn't tied down.. But whether the EU goes hard or soft on them, it leaves a lot of incentives for either a land or individual politicians to try an exit campaign for selfish reasons.
My Best Friend Lost His Life to the Gig Economy
> Same with BSD; the userspace programs are not part of the kernel, and developed separately by the same entity.

they're part of the same repo and built at the same time than the kernel. Run a big "make universe" here : https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd and see for yourself. That they are different binaries does not matter a lot, it's just a question of user interface. See for instance busybox where all the userspace is in a single binary.
Absolutely, though it worked out really well for me so that colors my opinion.

I love working on the edge of the future, and in my lifetime the Internet was it.

In another time it would have been aviation, space race, radio/television, or the railroads.
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The story I read indicated it was a planned "expedition", so presumably they had torches and such? You can't go far in pitch black in a cave and not injure yourself.

It doesn't really add up as it's been told. The death of the expert diver too seems very strange.
Just like phone companies have the right to block phone calls.
Really going to call for a [citation needed] on that "most"!
How is this an example of the Hegelian Dialectic?
Very much agreed. Similarly, the risk is something I was aware of when I signed up as a firefighter (and magnified even more now as an officer who makes decisions about going inside on structure fires, etc). But it's very much a matter of calculated risk.

https://www.everyonegoeshome.com/16-initiatives/

This is related to firefighting, but it's interesting to see what some of the things we are trying to fix are in terms of saving lives, and little is around technology, and much in the way of culture, safety.
Can you imagine if one of the cures to aging is safely removing senescent cells from the body? I'm not going to say its easy by any means, but it does seem straightforward in an unexpected way ("right under our noses"). Very exciting times in biomedical research. My hope is that anti-aging quickly accelerates into an industry instead of basic research (requiring checks, balances, all that jazz to keep the snake oil salesman and quacks at bay), which should allow for orders of magnitude of funding to flow into finding protocols for treatment (from an aging populace).

Eagerly awaiting reasonattlm's take on this.
SNAPCHAT Is Still Millennials Fav Application,  Suck It Kylie Jenner
You can say that about anything. Pick a technology/company you like and I'll write an "excuse me, but" piece that
"justifiably" criticizes it.
For my undergraduate thesis, I researched the science of learning. Many of the ideas put forth by this article have merit, but I would also recommend searching the keywords of "desirable difficulties" and "retrieval practice" (self testing) in Google Scholar as potential avenues for examples of more concrete study strategies.

Research shows that the best way to learn is to challenge oneself. Self-testing, in particular, is a highly effective way of avoiding the illusion of fluency (Long-term Learning != Current Performance) and creating durable memories.

Further reading:

1. Make it Stick

2. "Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way:
Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning" by Bjork & Bjork [https://teaching.yale-nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/25...]

3. For a survey of student misconceptions about learning: "Instructor and student knowledge of study strategies" by Morehead et al.
You are assuming that the motivation of the vandals is to protest the presence of the scooters because they dislike them. That is an unfounded assumption on your part. I don't know if you've ever been in a city or been a teenager, but generally vandals vandalize stuff because they enjoy doing so, not to make any kind of political statement.

You're also ignoring that many of the scooters are being stolen not vandalized, or the vandalism is part of the theft (ripping off the GPS unit so the scooter can't be tracked).

Besides nuisance/boon is not a binary switch. Even if the vandals were a handful of angry cranks who were annoyed by the scooters, that doesn't imply that the scooters aren't overall beneficial to the city.
What examples are you thinking of with “Everyone slowly goes back to the old technology?”
How Investors Line Up Behind Scooters, Bikes