skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a high school class dedicated to applying to college, with the “final project” being that you applied somewhere?

For my particular high school, the class was called Avid (https://www.avid.org). It's a college-preparatory class you may take all four years, with junior year being the year the class focuses on, amongst other things, studying for the SAT/ACT, applying to colleges, etc. My high school's Avid program mostly consisted of low-income, first-generation Hispanic students.

Going on a tangent, it's interesting to think about. Today, I came across an old friend from the same high school, same graduation, and from that same program working at Target full-time. He's Hispanic, low-income, and first-generation. He mentioned school ended not working out for him. I have another old but closer friend from the same high school and same graduation year but not from that program - he's American, middle-class, and not a first-generation student. He graduated from UC Berkeley last December and just started working at a finance company in San Francisco making roughly 85k/year. It's interesting in a way where I'm thinking about what heavily affected their lives to lead to both their different outcomes and the possible ways there are to bridge that gap, at least from the perspective of the old friend working at Target.

The program's site states the success rate of the program itself is high but from mere observation of old friends from that program, I unfortunately don't think that's the case. But above all, it reminds of this note written by and from Jordan Peterson's new book where he talks about lobsters in the first chapter: "to those who have everything more will be given; from those who have nothing, everything will be taken away." It seems to me then that if one wants to get out of, say of a generational low-income family, that person must be do something drastic: deliberate practice, a shift in perspective, etc. But first, they must be aware of this and that's the tough part, I think.
EnergyBar – Supercharge Your Mac's Touch Bar [GitHub – Open Source]
A better before/after taken from the same location: http://www.niepce-daguerre.com/boulevard_du_Temple_de_dag.ht...
Wearable Brain Imaging System for Thought-Reading
B21 creates app to educate people about cryptocurrencies
It's modern day capitalism. Never be satisfied with what you have and always look for the next best thing. Pretty sure it's one of the reasons that so many people are unhappy these days.
Interesting read! It however does not shock me. That episode is, with your context, as much about truth for them (radiolab, living in US and trying to understand how they could produce chemical weapons) as about the truth of the Hmong.
What they're living is a world where formal education says the truth. It would be nice if they would admit that a bit, and be more respectful to the interviewee.
Disclaimer: I have used inotool, and probably will again. I want the project, and prefer it to PlatformIO.

Unfortunately, inotool is stuck in Python2 land, even though pip will report it works with Python 3, and then it'll fail to install, or fail to run. [0] That issue has been open for two years.

In fact, nobody has worked on inotool for a while, and so when they were asked if somebody else could take over, they preferred it was forked. And so Arturo [1] was born.

However, the owner of Arturo saw that PlatformIO solved the same problems, and so they shelved it.

The last commit to inotool was in 2014.

It's incompatible with more recent Arduino IDEs, prventing it from compiling .ino files.

It uses an old Python that is about to real it's End Of Life date. It usually installs wrong with pip.

The project is effectively dead.

[0] https://github.com/amperka/ino/issues/266

[1] https://github.com/scottdarch/Arturo
I'm not the guy you're responding to, but I had a very similar experience in Missouri. College "advertising" started in middle school (~7/8th grade), and most kids knew a name or two they'd send ACT scores to; I think the minimum you had to send to was 1, but might've been two. (You had to put them on the scantrons alongside your name, birthday, etc).

As an aside, the push is so strong I ended up leaving high school (after 10th grade) to attend college early at one of our early-entrance-to-college programs that effectively is a building full of high schoolers going to college (and, e.g. being locked in the building at 8pm each night, not being allowed to have a car, etc) and getting backfilled highschool credit for classes also -- you get your high school diploma alongside an associates degree.

It's a massive push, and the assumption is generally a mix of "everyone needs to go to college or you won't find a job" and "you can get a job without college but all those jobs suck and you'll wish you went to college but by then it will be too late". After years of having it hammered into you, kids finally listen. That, and mandatory college applications being part of your class grades (sometimes as early as 8th/9th grade depending on your classes), as well as the school requiring you to send your ACT scores to colleges.

Edit: this was around 10 years ago for me -- my highschool graduation date was 2010 (even though I had been in college for 2 years by then).
> I often wonder how many problems could have been avoided if we required 2/3 majority.

California used, until recently, to have such a supermajority requirement for the budget—not all legislation, just the one piece of legislation that is an annual must-pass.

It was the primary source of perennial budget crisis, and, it let a unified minority party that held it's unity (usually Republicans, because they usually were in the minority and almost always more unified in the state than Democrats) to dictate terms so long as they were more willing than the majority to hold the state hostage.

Plus, conversely, it also makes the majority party less accountable, because they can always blame the intransigence of the minority and the disastrous consequences of not reaching some deal for the actual contents of whatever deal is reached. A supermajority doesn't mean everyone owns the results, it means no one does.
Seriously? You'll be killed if you don't use a guidebook? Most of the world is quite safe. For the few places that arn't, I dont think Lonely Planet is going to going to be much help unless your keep it in your breast pocket.

Don't take bad risks. Use your wits and common sense. Stay aware of your surroundings. Fear is the mind killer.
Verizon's throttling has everything to do with net neutrality

And that's just wrong. Verizon throttled the fire department after they hit the specified bandwidth limit, without regard to the content of the traffic. The people who are mad at Verizon are claiming that they should have treated the traffic differently because it was more important, which is exactly the opposite of net neutrality.
It was transformed from a public office into a private company with all shares owned by the state. They planned to sell those shares but this never happened for various reasons.
There's also the funding question.

Small projects can thrive in open source but bigger ones won't survive without money or company backing even if the project looks healthy.

Example: https://github.com/WebTales/rubedo/issues/1477
Is this 'laid off' in the individual (or even team) sense or 'laid off' in the 'company went bankrupt' sense? I'd guess your exposure to the latter would be significantly higher in startup land than in the real world.
The stock market is just a mean of transferring wealth. It won't change anything in the "real world". You're not generating value for anybody by investing in it. If that makes your existence fulfilling, good for you. But I'd just feel a crook.
Matemonos – Green Cookie Ft. Rauw Alejandro, Lyanno and Marconi Impara
There's also a Haskell writen in Lisp (in Racket, to be exact) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6UCeHiKodo
I have no doubt this could have happened but what is Weingarten pestered Breuer, saying, “Close this …case, will ya?” is actually based on? I doubt this was done publicly. Also I doubt they would have an actual case against Blankfein GS has very strong legal team I have strong doubts Blankfein would have acted in a way that would put him personally into harms way.
Well, I don't want to get into a semantics debate, but I can't help myself :p. And I'm pretty sure Rich Hickey himself would disagree with you about Clojure/Script having OOP.

Protocols, records and types are not instances of OOP in my book. Polymorphism and abstract data types are concepts orthogonal to OOP and FP. The fact Clojure/Script has support for polymorphism and ADT does not mean it supports OOP.

If you want to claim it supports OOP, I'd say it does in the form of interop. Genclass, proxy, or defining classes in Java or objects in JavaScript and using them from Clojure/Script.

But, what is OOP exactly? We can debate this. I like to use Wikipedia's definition that it is languages where there is a construct, called an object, which groups together data fields and methods which can access and modify the data fields within.

Clojure/Script has no such construct. But one can define them in Java or JavaScript, and use them from Clojure/Script through interop.
Nah, these decisions can be extremely difficult to go through with. Even if you’re pretty sure, and can lists loads of benefits to making the decision, there’s still a “what if it all goes wrong?” holding you back.
Article aside, the HN and Reddit comments really reflect our toxic entitlement culture. How many comments here seem to exist for no other reason but to get in a negative jab of their own?

I'm reminded of Rich Hickey's great response (https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_au...) to a similar situation.
I'm a lifelong sufferer myself, and so I like to jest.... forgive me

What you say makes sense and matches the neurology. I find that maintaining my dopamine levels can be a challenge, and on the extreme end, definitely associated with fatigue severe enough to lose track in the middle of a conversation.

Problems with the reward system and executive function are definitely part of the spectrum though! I identify with the symptoms you describe.

Today I'm on wellbutrin for the first time, and Im finding it more effective than amphetamines, despite perhaps an increase in social awkwardness. YMMV
Jiro ramen--no truer test of the body's ability to process fat and sodium. But once in a while, it is worth it.
> Buy and hold, and in the long run you'll make money.

Is that where Bitcoin's HODL "wisdom" comes from?

Also, don't bet on one horse.
Isn't this more often called fairness now since bias is already an overloaded term ?
Ultra bendable, flexible screens are here
Most definitely not. I haven't looked too closely at the paper but I think 1800 are divided into groups of 4, where they can do some entangling operations amongst each group, and weaker entangling operations between pairs of groups.
Dang, do I ever love DFW's rambling. It's so enjoyable compared to everyone else's rambling.

I have always wondered why he uses the word 'which' in a way that nobody else does, as in:

"...he had to eject, which basically means setting off an explosive charge that blows your seat out of the plane, which ejection broke both McCain’s arms and one leg and gave him a concussion and he started falling out of the skies right over Hanoi."

The second 'which' does not seem grammatically correct to me, but he does it _all the time_, and he probably knows the rules better than anyone. I assume it's a archaic form that he was the last holdout for?
1) did Amazon Australia use an intermediate labour hire agency or directly employ it's new warehouse workers. And, how does this compare to ICT staff.

2) does or does not bezos oppose collective bargaining and unions?

3) is it true that German and possibly Italian state and federal labour laws were successfully used to secure improved working conditions including the right to collective bargaining?

4) has Amazon at any time, including the present used "fire the bottom two" forms of ranked performance management?
I don't know whether this is the effect of me having read a lot of documentation by skimming, now I skim almost everything that I read.

I think most non-tech people that I met still reading normally.
What do you think inductivism is?
So, there goes John McCain (he just died). It's a real pity, he seems to have been one of very few politicians on the Republican side that actually spoke his mind and that stood up to the bully.

His voice will be sorely missed, both within the USA as well as outside of it.

I lost a family member to cancer last week (@60), it went from A-ok to gone in the space of two months, it's a very harsh disease.
Shameless plug for a project I am involved in: re.photos [1] is a collection of then and now pictures (also called rephotography [2]) created by the platform's users. It provides an interface to filter the pictures (e.g. geographically, temporally) and provides a basic tool to improve alignment of two pictures.

Our user Nicolai Wolpert contributed particularly impressive pictures of the 1900 World's Fair in Paris [3]. See the comparison of the Quai des Nations in 1900 and 2017 [4] if you are in a hurry.

We feel that rephotography is a great tool to make history more tangible to a greater audience. Sometimes it's difficult to visualize that and how people lived in the past; seeing those two pictures taken in different times makes changes (and consistency) in peoples' lives much more accessible.
When taking after pictures this effect is even more pronounced. It's fascinating to know that some photographer stood in the same place decades or a century ago. ;-)

This is mostly a passion-driven project at the moment, so it might be rough around the edges in some places. In particular there isn't a mobile view yet for most functionality, so I'd recommend using a larger screen.

[1] https://www.re.photos/

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

[3] https://www.re.photos/compilation/?tag=190

[4] https://www.re.photos/compilation/1450/
See my answer here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17844341 They are not doing any sort of error correction. For the foreseeable future, it is indeed much cheaper (by orders of magnitude) to buy commercial cloud computing.
Because the other side said they won't help you. It's like a lottery ticket at this point. No one at high levels of government is helping anyone, but you might think the unreliable guy could be the broken clock whose right twice a day.
Just be ultra honest about the point you want to make with supporting evidence/arguments without being disrespectful. The way you speak to your manager doesn't necessarily have to the same you speak to your CEO, because their motivations may differ (usually do). Speaking to CEO, you should try to be aligned with the company goals, whatever you're speaking about try to connect with company's goals. At the end of the day, that is all CEO cares about. However, manager might have ulterior motives, politics etc. So here you formulate your points without causing too much trouble or insecurity to their position.
I've switched from qwerty to programmer dvorak 11-12 years ago. It took me 2 weeks of practicing to get comfortable with it.

I constantly switch between dvorak and qwerty (as much as 4-5 times in a minute), and it takes no effort, I'm more or less equally comfortable with both of them.

I'm also a designer, and I didn't bother relearning the shortcuts on design programs on dvorak, so I switch back to qwerty with a shortcut when I use them, than switch back to dvorak for typing.

If you switch to dvorak, I also suggest giving up using arrow keys and using emacs/vi keymaps for moving the cursor around, it will be much more efficient.

I really suggest taking a look at programmer dvorak[0] if most of the typing you do is writing code. It's more efficient and relaxed to use commonly typed characters ( &[{}(=*)+]!;,.:<> ), at the expense of having to use shift for numbers.

[0]: https://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
Just to add: Hackett [0] is a lispy Haskell that has been under active development for some time.

Based around a paper, Type Systems as Macros [1]

[0] https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett

[1] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/stchang/pubs/ckg-popl2017.pdf
I think it's okay for people to go into certain fields primarily for money. I also think they will end up as well as everyone else. I have friends who majored in a field they were eager about but ended up realizing there was no high demand in that field. Some went on to do technological (data science, web development, etc) bootcamps and most of them like what they are doing now. Most of them, on their free time, even still partake in that thing they majored in.
The first. Most of the people I know who were laid off get, at best, an vague promise to blnot fight unemployment claims and even those aren't always honored. Other than California most states allow NDAs and non competes which companies rely on heavily to threaten employees if they fought a lay off at all
What I took away from the article is that the number of people enrolled in humanities appears to be a proxy for how healthy the workforce (both current and future) perceives the economy to be. And that by that metric, we're not doing well at all.
Net neutrality is about consumers standing up to support their big media overlords against evil internet service providers.
Of course, there is a difference of how much ahead. If you would have invested few months later you could have come much more ahead.
I would like to see evidence if that. I've seen companies offer a single paycheck,two weeks that is, of pay and act like they were ghandi for it. They also usually ask for you to sign all the NDAs and other agreements they forgot to get you to sign, in exchange for that severance
The person who takes out a loan has already paid for their chance of bankruptcy, in the form of interest (because the risk of bankruptcy is priced in based on your creditworthiness.) However most student loans would never have been offered if the deal was the same as for regular loans. What's being proposed is that the deal be changed retroactively, and for innocent bystanders to foot the bill.

Think of it like this: party A defrauds party B (by misrepresenting the value of what they're offering), putting party B into irrecoverable debt in the process. Party A isn't going to give the money back (we can't get humanities professors to return their salaries, not to mention the less visible involved), so party B turns to their side and sees party C standing next to them...

The fraud is between the victim, the perpetraor, and the state. However I don't expect much to happen along those lines because even though what happened was clearly fraud, it's not clear exactly who was responsible or even how a law could be written so that they would have broken any laws. It's like that one scene in the grapes of wrath: when a hundred people each commit a fraction of a crime, you're just about stuck when it comes to holding any of them accountable.
In some (most?) cases those 10% of the words that are actually used are not the same for all readers. What is fluff to you may not be to me. When it comes to be sure to be understood many express the same idea in multiple ways (discourse levels) consecutively.

Many (most? at the very least "more and more") consumers buy printed matter "by weight", they somewhat "score" by dividing the number of pages by the price.
It may be considered adequate for entertainment material, and may be adopted (for many/all types of goods) because it is our standard way of scoring goods. AFAIK there is no well-known generic method to a priori appreciate whether a good is adequate (adequacy being a part of "quality", which is always hard to evaluate).

It's quantity/quality, all over again. Only the former seems absolute to us, and a good scoring method delivers an absolute result.

IMHO there is a way to pepper a text with anecdotes/useless details, or even to structure it thanks to them, which gained traction in US newspaper material and now seems pervasive to me (thanks to our "global culture"?). It may sometimes be used as a trick to give life or credibility (fake news ahead! Liars tend to pile details up) to a story, or to appeal to some readers' empathy ("Wow, he uses a kettle pot similar to mine, so we are similar!").

A perfect thing "lacks nothing and nothing can be added" (Vitruvius). Aiming at perfection slows the building process, and most written material sold is short-lived ("long tail"). For a publishing company the editorial process (<=> refining contents by adding what is missing and also cutting fluff, in an often painful and always lengthy back-and-forth between the author and an editor) leads to more loss (an enraged author quits) and time-to-market (competing products are first on the market).
Paying the author according to the amount of written material he produces simplifies.

It's "good enough" and "on time", all over again.

A piece of text without repetition and rephrasing will only content the focused reader. Misread or misunderstand something and you are lost. Focused people are rare (and may even be more and more so), and even them often cannot read continuously in a proper (calm) environment for a long time. Therefore nearly all of us always skim. Most products are not completely devoid of contents, therefore upon skimming one will probably find some material interesting him, albeit skimming over dense material leads to a total failure.

Theoretically footnotes and the hypertext approach may alleviate part of this, but many readers just get lost in those links.
Show HN: Learn React: Best React tutorials and books 2018
>I typically read the beginning and the end, and then skim the rest. If it seems worth the time, then I read the whole thing.

I saw this advice for reading papers, and it has been extremely useful to me for deciding if something is worth reading. For whatever reason though, I have some kind of aversion to doing it with books. Some form of childhood engrained "eat your vegetables" kind of conditioning about finishing books cover to cover.

I should really try it though. I've slogged through many non-fiction books with little beside annoyance to show for it.
Have you looked at the press release that yazr linked to? It sounds like this is a new design for Terrapower that is similar to the concept that you prefer. It would be great for someone that is familiar with the design issues to confim if this is the case.
Also, why recipe sites are among the most annoying on the internet.

Life story with a hidden recipe injected somewhere on the body
Doubt it, most successful tech startup founders aren't super stupid.
I did the same. After grad I was marooned so I read them end-to-end. Bag of tricks becomes coherent incremental subject.
Politics broke Dart's back.
Lost my mother to the same. Doctors gave her a year, but in the end she died less than 5 months from the diagnosis. She was 62.
Yeah, one most complex way to do it. I just tested my assertion for the sake of truth and it seems correct:

class Foo:
def bar(self, x):
print 'bar', x

def f(x): print 'f', x

foo = Foo()
foo.baz = f

print(foo.bar) # <bound method Foo.bar of <__main__.Foo object>>
print(foo.baz) # <function f>
foo.bar(5) # bar 5
foo.baz(6) # f 6

Now who wants to say that 'js this' is quirky and complicated?
Another proof that sticking with platform languages is a better option for productivity, even if the languages might miss a few shinny features.
This is a social problem, it can be solved without such a blunt instrument. Single letter variable names also make code more readable, but only when used appropriately. Your argument would suggest banning those!

IMHO it is better to concentrate on getting the semantics right and not waste any goodwill on restricting syntax.