skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GDP itself is overused in an attempt to oversimplify complex systems. Simon Kuznets, who originally formulated GDP in 1937, stated in his first report to the US Congress in 1934, in a section titled "Uses and Abuses of National Income Measurements":

The valuable capacity of the human mind to simplify a complex situation in a compact characterization becomes dangerous when not controlled in terms of definitely stated criteria. With quantitative measurements especially, the definiteness of the result suggests, often misleadingly, a precision and simplicity in the outlines of the object measured. Measurements of national income are subject to this type of illusion and resulting abuse, especially since they deal with matters that are the center of conflict of opposing social groups where the effectiveness of an argument is often contingent upon oversimplification. [...]

All these qualifications upon estimates of national income as an index of productivity are just as important when income measurements are interpreted from the point of view of economic welfare. But in the latter case additional difficulties will be suggested to anyone who wants to penetrate below the surface of total figures and market values. Economic welfare cannot be adequately measured unless the personal distribution of income is known. And no income measurement undertakes to estimate the reverse side of income, that is, the intensity and unpleasantness of effort going into the earning of income. The welfare of a nation can, therefore, scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined above.

This is quoted from Wikipedia, so you might as well read the rest of the section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product#Limitat...

And here's a historical overview: https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/01/03/gdp-a-brief-history/
People have recommended games geared towards programming. That's good.

Games in general are good. Even non-games like Candyland. It's all procedural. Following directions.

Back in the day it used to be all about Logo and that industrious little turtle.

What's important is that they see the results of their efforts quickly. Positive feedback for nearly as soon as they put in their commands. Eventually, they'll begin to conceptualize and think abstractly and be able to build more complex things.
Conversely, this attitude is why I believe that humanity won’t make it. Selfish faith does not affect actual temperatures. Faith does not decrease measured CO2 levels, or stop the proliferation of extinctions, or stop the conflagrations currently burning out of control in California, Spain, and elsewhere. Selfish faith doesn’t restore migratory patterns, or ocean temperatures, or arctic ice levels. Record and ever worsening heat waves don’t stop advancing simply because we reply with a “oh, I’m sure everything will work out.”

But hey, someone predicted something wrong in the past, so that means I can brush my hands of it. A psychologist would certainly say that’s a healthy attitude to take, but perhaps what is needed to stave off extinction are unhealthy ones.

But that might upset someone, and we wouldn’t want to do that now would we.
The math stays the same, even if the numbers change: with your number of 110% of the original project price for reproduction by others we get the following price hike 110% * 1/10 = 11%

big deal, 11% more expensive science, but 1 out of 10 results get reproduced, stoichiocratically, so you don't know if it will be reproduced until after publication...

Also: your comment about reproducibility details being scattered over the previous work of the original authors... as I said, in a world where we use my system, you are incentivized to put all details for reproduction within the paper, since you wouldn't want to risk possible reproduction by others to fail simply because they didn't read your previous papers...
Doesn't using a CDN break impressions statistics, making it impossible to administer?
Straight from their privacy policy [0]:

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This sounds like a serious security issue if you ask me.

[0] = https://www.instapaper.com/privacy
Greek here.

The sufferings of Greece is first and foremost due to Greece's own faults and less due to the Euro.

Greek pensioners had very generous pensions. The Greek pension organizations had a deficit of around 10 billion euros each year, and the Greek state covered that through borrowing.

In 2001, Giannitsis, then minister of the greek government, suggested a pension system reform, which was ferociously opposed by every part of the Greek society.

Lots of people in Greece ended up getting pensions of around 1200-1300 euros (after taxes/insurance), which was extremely above what these people have given as insurance when they worked.

The end result was the Greek deficit was getting larger and larger and therefore the Greek economy blew up.

Had it been a different case, where the Greek governments made the necessary reforms, not only in the pension system but also in other sectors of the economy, Greece would never have this crisis.
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Linear Algebra, Calculus and Assembly for a five year old? You surely must be joking, Sir.

Okay, you are joking. Nice one.
Depends on if you are happier with Pocket than Instapaper. I think the Pocket UI is rather awful compared to Instapaper, but if it works at least as well or better for you, then of course no reason to switch back.
If pizza places were evenly distributed, what percentage of them would be greater than a 10 minute walk from the subway?
Thanks for making me smile but actually it's not a bad idea to open children quite early to the concept of functions and related ideas. Of course you wouldn't use the name "function", but rather a "machine" - and then play the "what comes in, what comes out" game, for example. The ability to correlate two (and more) variable changes is very useful in life, but spotting these occasions and use them to point out certain facts involves some skill on the parents' part.
It isn’t like they are trying to hid this. They made it abundantly clear in the writeup that they made Cheetah.
Also in California.

Two common scenarios:

People get knocked of cliffs.

People walk on beach, get too close to the water or wade in a little too far.
Is there more information on Cheetah anywhere? I was looking at picovoice.ai but it only mentions PORCUPiNE.
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I can't imagine any significant number of people were using it to justify keeping it, but perhaps I'm wrong.
This is a bit out of left field - but I (offhandedly) showed my kid RoboHash: https://robohash.org/ which he thought was _awesome_. He could type in words and generate robots, which is kind of like a super power to a kid.

He asked me how it worked, and I used that to talk about some core programming concepts, including showing him some code. I wouldn't say he "learned" programming from that experience at all - but now he knows what code is, and sort of how programs are made, and he knows that you can make cool stuff like robots :)

So I would say: find something they are really interested in (maybe that's Minecraft, or robots, or animation, etc) - and use that as a jumping off point to introduce the concepts to them.
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Technical debt – challenges and perspectives (2017)
I’m in a same boat. I already paid for Pocket premium. There is no compelling reason to go back. I did prefer Instapaper app UX though. Probably coz of years of use, but I’ve made my peace with Pocket app.

GDPR blackout was a big misstep.
What happen's when your kid presses the button 20 times?
It's a state-by-state system. Whatever is set up in the South wasn’t set up to appease Southerners, it was set up by Southerners to give effect to their desires.
Okay, but under Democrats we had net neutrality and under Republicans it was removed, and those were respectively explicit goals for both parties. So it really is as simple as voting for 1 of 2 parties.
For an interesting discussion of this, I recommend this discussion of Glenn Loury with Adaner Usmani.

https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/53070

Usmani believes that something like the Nordic model would work in the US. I don't think Loury is buying any of it (and he knows quite a bit about this topic, quantitatively too) but is a model of polite, serious, engagement.
Extrajudicial killings and assassination attempts rarely help democracy. Quite the contrary they are the perfect environment for strongmen to grab and consolidate power. Look at the Erdogan coup, the burning of the Reichstag, the Arab revolutions that turned violent, the rise of ISIS in destabilized areas, the violent history of postcolonial Africa and so on.

What makes Maduro possible is a political system that even has a strong popular component. If you remove the exponent, that system will produce another even stronger strongman, poised to "defend" the country.
You can become a not-a-foreigner in many European countries if you are white and speak without an accent.

On the flipside, you can be classified as a foreigner even if you'd live your whole life in the country but aren't white.
This article might be of interest to you : https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/

It describes how your Pi-Hole can be used for DNS Amplification Attacks by attackers, and how to prevent it
Seems a lot like http://tersus.com which is also open-source (and which I last used 10 years ago, so I might be misremembering). Can anyone familiar with both tersus and Luna give a short comparison.
Well that just sold me on never buying another Samsung TV ever. How in the hell does Samsung, a device manufacturer justify inserting ads over content thats not even theirs?
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I use echos all the time and order from Amazon all the time. Those are almost complete separate. Twice those paths crossed, but only because Amazon did something crazy like sell a box of Cliff bars for half what Costco does. They got me to try ordering by voice, but I can't see myself doing that again until they sell me some more stuff at cost and ship it free.
It's probably worth pointing out this is more of a LOGO-esq programmable turtle rather than a "programmable gaming mouse" - I was quite confused for a moment :)
As a white guy, I've occasionally run into the sort of person that quizzes you about ancestry. Usually they'll take a guess like "are you Italian" and when they don't get it right away they fall back on "well what are you?". I can't recall if I've gotten this with the exact words "but where are you REALLY from?". I think I may have. For some reason this is part of some people's conversational diet. It fills the void in the same way as "so what do you do?"

I too have heard my Asian friends complain about it. I legit don't know if Asian American's actually have this nuisance worse or if they are just more aware of it. I don't even know where to find data to prove it one way or the other.
How do you concile this view with the fact that other European countries (Germany, Austria, Netherlands, nordic countries) have very healthy economies and an expansive welfare state as well?

Monetary devaluation and increasing national debt had long been used by Italy and other countries as a fig leaf to avoid addressing historical problems that these reforms try to address.

The EU has removed this fig leaf. Errors have been made and the crisis should have been handled better, but it does not exempt these countries from having to fix their own problems.
Good to hear about tree plantng in the UK at $400 and at $200 to compensate for European-level personal energy use. Please give me the source! Our project TreeDripper.net that promotes tree planting by schoolk in poor countries needs this type of quantative information. Or mail to info@demotech.org , thanks!
I'm absolutely certain with governments moving this slow right now, making small goals for 2050, getting courted by lobbies to not push through massive restrictions, probably most of these very dark predictions will come true. I, as a concerned citizen can do nothing against the corporations ruling our society, overruling politicians or outright controlling them directly. We are probably beyond any point of return. The people that yearn for the next payday will get their money and probably will be able to save themselves in an underground bunker or a suite in the mountains, while the rest of the poor and middle class burn in the ashes they leave behind.
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> The Dart language, libraries, build system, and web development tools have changed.

https://www.dartlang.org/dart-2

> ...announcing Dart 2, a reboot of the language to embrace our vision of Dart: as a language uniquely optimized for client-side development for web and mobile.

https://medium.com/dartlang/announcing-dart-2-80ba01f43b6
I'm referring to Federal laws and Constitutional underpinnings.

For instance, the loophole in the 13th.

Which, but for it's existence, would not have allowed "...Southerners to give effect to their desires..."
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Pick an easy language like python, then teach him in order:

print, print, print
print, input, print
print, input, if print, else print
print, input, for print
func, print func

These are the basic building blocks of all computer programs in the universe, if he can master them and gets his curiosity in overdrive then he'll be a great programmer, a good skill to have even if he picks another career path.
> Meaning: you cannot select any arbitrary set of 5 heroes and expect them to perform well.

When I think of AI, I think of something crawling its way out of purposefully adversarial situations such as this one. I would have loved to see optimal play from 5 wacky heroes.

I just have this suspicion that that wasn't optimal for that team comp.

But of course the matchup itself is a thing.
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"Adjust to climate change" or "adjust the climate" are signs someone has really thought through the likely outcomes or climate change.

If we keep burning carbon, adjustment would mean "abandoning all coastal cities and ports". That....is not a cost we can easily pay.

"Adjusting the climate" is hubris. Unless it means lowering CO2. Because otherwise, each change has sode effects. Eg a light shade would still leave disastrous ocean acidification, and have other side effects from the shade.

We might still figure a way out, but it would involve carbon free or carbon neutral energy, and a way to suck it from the sky.
From what I can tell, neither Palm nor Samsung nor the HP iPAQs were using USB on their PDAs back in 2007. Neither was Nokia on their pre-iPhone smartphones, like the E-series. And obviously, the original "modern smartphone" - the iPhone - didn't either.
I'm voting up all the https://scratch.mit.edu suggestions. I was active in that community and with the developers early on. I wish I had it when I was little.

You can browse projects with the 5 year old then view the source and figure out how they work. Show that they can change things.

It's awesome that you want to promote creation over just consuming content like most of their peers.

Scratch your own itch with it too. Make a 3d renderer or CRUD app, fractal explorer, or game... they might like to see what can be made and what excites you.

They may get into the story and animation projects made by other kids first, that's good too.
As far I can tell pi-test can't scale even to medium sized projects, time complexity is close to (unit tests * classes). Are the other tools (maybe for other languages) that deal with it better, without the need to split code in smaller parts?
I think you exaggerate. My kid routinely asks me for riddles of the "x plus seven equals fourteen" kind. That's basic algebra.
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Furthermore, just because someone is acting respectfully towards you doesn't mean they actually respect you.
Maybe I'm being naive, but it seems reasonable to think that many people are using this service for purposes that don't include romance or sex.
Thx. These are great.
This is kind of a dumb question, what's the comedy club equivalent for oral storytelling?

Does this get billed as one man show theatre?
> That would be because “doing it right” is completely over the top.

Understand the over the top and common sense angles here, but the "unmonitored" drop was so dramatic as to imply that this was less a matter of reverting to a more sensible approach and more one of dropping down to outright carelessness. That may not actually be the case though.
The statistics and probabilistic methods of science are there specifically for controlling and quantifying the effect of noise and uncertainty and making sure experiments are reproducible a high percentage of the time.

If you don't get a quantifiable amount of reproducibility, there is no point to using statistics at all and what you are doing is not science.
Not all shipping is equal. When I worked for a produce company we shipped via trucks and trains. By far there were many more incidence of produce going bad and having to be thrown out when shipped via train than by truck.

Put it on a train, unless it will spoil?
> Just stop.

As long as there is an economic incentive to serve ads, and as long as 99% of people don’t care (and trust me, normal people absolutely do not care like HN cares), nothing will happen, just like nothing has BEEN happening. We need a GDPR-like bill in the US, and we need it yesterday. Stop relying on the “market”. Stop relying on regular people. This problem is bigger than just “stop visiting those sites”, just like climate change is bigger than just “stop using gasoline”.
Yeah, they refused to say anything during the outage, and now they're still not providing the slightest bit of detail. There's really no excuse for that. With that total lack of transparency, I certainly wouldn't trust Instapaper in the future.
Its funny how these tenets map out to relationships to humans. Replace messenger with "friend" and it still retains a measure of truth.
Nice work. I would quibble with some of the genre classifications. The game told me that Acperience by Hardfloor is classic trance, when it's quite clearly acid house. It classified Want You by Bearson as future garage, which it clearly isn't. It told me that Porcelain by Moby is "Ambient breaks/Illbient", which isn't a connection I would have made. It also seemed to wrongly categorise a couple of tracks as Hi-NRG, although I missed their names. I don't think that anyone from within the rave scene has ever used the term "breakbeat hardcore"; the Wikipedia article for the genre is totally devoid of references.

Personally, I think that a bit of simplification might be in order. A lot of tracks don't neatly fit into any genre and a lot of genres are pedantic labels rather than actual musical movements. A more concise and less contentious set of genres might be more useful to newcomers and less irritating to cratediggers. Learning the difference between Chicago house and Balearic house is very valuable if you're just starting to explore dance music, but I'm not sure there a useful delineation between Euro trance, classic trance, progressive trance and epic trance.

Also, a tracklisting at the end of the game would be very useful.
I do not see it this way. I have great parents: smart, non overbearing but always ready to help. But I still listened to the strangers (and friends and family, and probably ignored 80% of all that advice). Some thoughts on why this could make sense:

First, I probably know what a family member would suggest (by being close, observation, partial answers of related questions). That "indirect advice" is already baked in. Second, more data points can helps. Last but not least, with family and friends you lack anonymity and it could be nontrivial to ignore advice of a family member on a serious matter. I do not see any of this as dystopian.

As an anecdote, where I grew up train travel was common, generally safe and tickets cheap (and at 16 you were a full adult and can go alone wherever you want / can afford). On long train rides folks would often discuss things and open up in a way they would not do with a close friend. "Train conversations" was a phrase in common use suggesting it was not rare.
Evilmode is useless for long-time vim users with muscle memory. Things such as different behavior of ?<Up> or /<Up> are frustrating. Also many popular plugins (such as orgmode) interfere with evilmode. And movement between windows. And there's not even a consistent keystroke to close a window in emacs, and evilmode's mapping of q muddies the situation even further.
> They sound like an accessibility nightmare.

Much like an escalator, really. People with mobility issues can't use them. Many people are afraid of them. They're hard to use safely with children and/or a pram.

I'm all for stairs for everyone who is able, and lifts for everyone who isn't.
> However, most Asians (and even Europeans) prefer to stay on the coast due to the storied past, Silicon Valley name recognition, socially liberal policies, huge diversity, access to ethnic food etc.

Tell that to the huge Asian population in Dallas. It's not quite the Midwest, but it's still the Great Plains and the culture is similar.

The Indian and Chinese food here is second to none, and we're one of the most diverse metro areas in the country. Also, while Asians may prefer the Democrats' stances on immigration, they are often deeply socially conservative, just as much as any white Southern Baptist, and they tend to form extremely conservative ethnic enclaves.
You're joking, right? It's hard to tell, because people propose "adaptation" seriously quite often.

The loss of all coastal cities would be apocalyptic.
Yet Azure is the top cloud provider, and AWS is #2.
10 wait

20 if age < 7 then goto 10

I think you can introduce programming concepts into play, but I would leave (and have done) actual programming until they are a bit older.

There was a good example possibly linked on here a few days ago, where with a group of kids, one of them pretends to be a robot (they can take turns), and the others "program" the robot with simple commands (forward, turn left, pick up, etc, etc). It can be step-by-step to start with, and then they have to write down the steps in advance, etc, etc.
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Hey there – we started requiring passwords many years ago, but the service originally launched without requiring a password or email address. You can read more about it here: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/2318776738
This makes no sense. As far as I can tell they pulled property crime out of their definition of public safety, but left in the cost. This also flies in the face of the fact that the current era is one of the safest in history.

I think many people are sympathetic to reform in the criminal justice system. It would be a good thing to do. Particularly laws around drugs and illegal substances. It also gets to the root of many of these problems. I think that’s a much better way to move the needle, rather than just looking at the money spent and deciding “well, this isn’t working based on my definition, so we might as well not do it”.
Also in tennis: look there the ball should go, not at it as you hit it.
My 27 year-old girlfriend just took a swim class at the YMCA. In her class of 7, one other person was older than her while the rest were in their teens. She's way more comfortable in the water now and can swim the length of the pool and back which would have been impossible before.

Don't let anxiety hold you back from learning this!