skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you went to a good high school. Mine was a terrible high school that offered 0 computer science classes.

>One really intelligent decision the department made was to not just mimic a college curriculum.

It would have been GREAT if my high school even mimicked a college curriculum. We barely had any AP courses & I think it would haven't been a surprised if you didn't go onto college from my high school. You re definitely speaking from a place of immense privilege and it's amazing your school offered that.
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I kinda agree with you. I'm not the boss around here though.
If the tools don't work, try to not use them. (Unless you're forced to, obviously).

Perhaps keep a paper notepad/planner (Like a police officer or fighter pilot etc.), for tasks that aren't that important this would save a lot of mental effort.

In terms of automation, it strikes me as just another learning curve (which may well be worth it, e.g. learning emacs) but it would be wise to cut down before automating if possible.
>college is more important than life skills. And yes, it is.

We would have to define "life skills".

I would consider life skills the ability to navigate hierarchies and bureaucracies (like the DMV, or dealing with bosses). I would also include knowing how to deal with challenges like a broken down vehicle. Balancing a checkbook, cleanliness, halfway decent nutritional sense.

But hey, as long as you got that PhD in Russian literature, I'm sure everything will turn out fine.
Why would you use avg sunlight per day? Thats takes the avg sunlight per year and maps it onto a daily avg, which is useless as a metric.

You want sunny days per year. Which Seattle gets less than 90. Most cities in California get over 200.
Yes. I think the local content should be available and accessible. But beyond that, it's up to the studios to fight for viewers.
There is a zero sum fight over finite attention and leisure time, and the ability to monopolize distribution channels (as with any other market, there can be monopolies).
Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?
True but until you open your API and start treating your average user fairly I and many others will be staying well clear.
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Under Alpha Composition

icon = snowy.load('snowflake.png')
icon = snow.resize(snowflake, height=100)
sunset[:100,200:300] = snowy.compose(sunset[:100,200:300], icon)
snowy.show(sunset)

Pretty sure you meant to say on line 2 `icon = snowy.resize(icon, height=100)`
This is the same problem suffered by most Capital-N Named Things (Lean, Agile, etc.). By becoming capitalized, they become specific practices. Some of the practices are good, some are good in context, some are bad out of context. But people fail to make the proper value judgements about what's worth it and what's not, and often pick which practices to do by the visibility of the practice.

Is a kanban board useful? Immensely. Is it useful if you don't know what it represents? Nope. But it's highly visible so people adopt it. They may get some value, but only limited, if they fail to comprehend it. Or, worse, they get negative value because it becomes a set-in-stone "process" "(We can only handle 4 of X at a time! Scrap everything over that." "Wait, why was it 4?" "Oh, because we had half the staff before. I guess we can actually handle 6 now."). If that question isn't asked, it's fixed in time and the organization isn't a learning organization, it's actually dying but hasn't realized it yet.
> So the move — which will probably draw loud and hair-raising screams from U.S. commentators — is, nonetheless, A Good Thing.

Wow. I’m suprised TechCrunch actually published this. Has their quality dropped that dramatically?
I very much agree and I tell every young CS student I meet that Computer Science + Some Other Domain = bright future
Could you link/cite the studies you have in mind, njarboe
>Government actions have done far more damage and kept more people in poor financial straights than lack of pay. From the over zealous war on drugs to fund the politically powerful police and sheriff unions

I'm not disagreeing with your premise completely, but conflating policies that are genuinely meant to help the working poor and policies that are specifically meant to harm people (the war on drugs being an excellent example) is dishonest and unhelpful.
Can I sign up somewhere for news about that project? I am always interested in Good Book recommendations.
Perhaps you meant, "thanks government-enforced monopoly"?
Should we be calling this "computer science", or just "computer programming"? After all, those two things, while related, are not synonymous. And I'm not being pedantic, I'm really wanting some clarification!

A true computer science education involves a study in multiple areas, from discrete math, to computer architecture, to operating systems, to algorithms, to finally, both as the pinnacle and the essence of the subject, theory of computing.

Any university would be expected to have these classes as part of their core curriculum for a CS degree, otherwise people begin questioning the rigor of the program.

Obviously, if we are talking about HS rather than University, the subjects are scaled back for necessity. But the content still needs to be there. So are they talking multiple classes, or a long series of classes that will eventually address all of the aforementioned areas?

I'm all for everyone learning Computer Science. I just want to make sure that we are talking about the same thing!
Legislators don't seem to understand that backdoored crypto is bad crypto.

If I write a chat app that uses strong encryption, with the keys stored on each user's device, there are no legal grounds for me to modify any part of my app if the government wants access.
Poverty is not justification to excuse bad or illegal behavior.

Entire books have been written on the very subject. Plenty of Russian works on the topic, though you might want to start with the classic primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables.

Though I'm making my point in a trite way, I think the problem is that you want to start from the bottom up. Hugo, for one, brought to light that it is a multi-layered problem and starting at the bottom, though easy and most common, might not be the right approach.
FYI: Your site has been unreachable since April if you use Symantec certificates.

Chrome announced the depreciation for October but they didn't stick to their own roadmap and blacklisted Symantec since April instead (Chrome 66 release). https://security.googleblog.com/2018/03/distrust-of-symantec...
Let me fix this for you:

Nobody likes to hear that they are lower on the priority totem pole, however, everybody understands when new businesses go after the biggest markets first.

If somebody is going to be upset by investing first in the areas with the most people...then you really have to disregard their point of view.

I live in a rural suburb and have had one of those cell-phone-over-ethernet setups in my house to handle the poor signal. I understand.
Wow, hats off for supporting xp until now!
He didn't use that momentum to make a real impact. Now the democrats look as clueless as they looked in 2016. They still don't have a real value proposition other than not being Trump. They can't just stay being the party for the upper middle class without appealing to blue collar workers. Say what you want about Obama but at least he had a message.

Maybe Sanders never aspired to be a national leader and that should be respected but it's still disappointing.
resources should be spent making sure math teachers are equipped to teach math and not rote memorization.
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Silicon Valley startups cover a wide range. They are thousands of independent actors covering a huge range of political views. Even if you want to restrict things to well funded startups, Uber and Google for example started as very different places.

So, I am really not talking about SV startups directly when I talk about the benefits of diversity. I am mostly focused on someone injecting a comment in a design meeting that saves the team weeks of work.
This quota sort of work for movie theater (and radio/TV) because offering crappy content makes them miss out on some money.
This is not the case with Netflix. Netflix will be completely OK with serving locally produced content that nobody watch because it will only cost them a couple of hard drive that won't ever be used.

So Netflix will just end up licensing the cheapest locally content to meet their quota.
This content will also be the poorest, which will turn people away from locally produced content.

Another job well done by the EU.

PS:
If any Netflix exec sees this, I'm available for creating french films at the rate of 200 EUR / hour.
But if you do want to attract or turn people into mustache-twirling villains, offer money.
Understood. Maybe it helps that Snowy does not define an Image object, instead it simply operates on numpy arrays.

See also https://github.prideout.net/snowy/index.html#interop
Well that’s....surprising

Edit: did you compare the bytecode?
We live in an interesting time and place where China could declare war on the democratic countries in the next 5 years...let me explain. China is in a very bad situation where it has accumulated too much debt in its national and local governments, and corporations. Inflation is going through the roof - rent has increased 30% from 2017 in Beijing and other cities, and food costs are going up because of the tariffs. And incomes are declining - top income for tsinghua graduates, the top university in China, has fallen 20% from 2016. There have been various protests from veterans about decreased/stopped pays.

All this will eventually lead to a point where the CCP has to appease its citizens for the crashing economy. Either it will choose to subdue its own people - either with more police state, lockdowns, or jailing, and do so for the next 10-20 years while the bad debts slowly gets resolved (ala Japan), or it will choose to redirect its focus abroad (ala Germany 1930) and starts to aggressively expanding and taking over countries as puppet states (which it is already doing now with various African states and Southeast countries) or use its growing military to attack nearby countries (Taiwan, Vietnam)

That makes the (cyber)defenses against China even more important today. Thus we have US/Australia banning Huawei and ZTE, and Japan is thinking about banning them as well from the network. The free, democratic countries of the world are starting to realize how dangerous giving China backdoors into the networks is.

We need to monitor all our security breaches that exposes us to Chinese cyber espionages, so we can prevent theft of important technologies.
They're still exceptionally user-hostile warnings. You can get this running a pre-release browser (and I doubt that they'll be changed for the stable releases of either FF or Chrome) trying to visit Paypal. It's utterly bananas to present this to an end-user doing a very common, security-dependent interaction.
Sure, it "impacts" security. But as we are discussing above, it would need to be shown to "negatively" impact security. I don't think you could win on the basis of "it's not recommended to do that, but we can't see any examples of it actually causing security problems."
It probably has more to do with the fact that Canada is close to the US, so Canadians have plenty of opportunities to mingle with the American cultural players.
Nice question. Although brand value concerns will trump these problems in practice.
Sounds like an amazing high school computer science experience. Which state was this?

My high school has exactly one CS course (AP Computer Science) that teaches more mathematics than computer science. This is something I would love if it existed at my school.

I've been currently self-teaching CS for the portions that seem relevant and interesting, such as ML/DL, algorithms, and data structures.
I don’t use fitness trackers. I also refrain from posting negatively about products I don’t use.

Do you have any proof about FitBit selling to insurance companies? Not all companies are selling data to 3rd parties.
The other way to phrase that is "A data scientist is a worse programmer than a typical programmer and a worse statistician than a typical statistician." If you need a programmer, hire a programmer. If you need a statistician, hire a statistician. I wouldn't ever hire someone who took a bootcamp that is "a better plumber than a typical doctor and a better doctor than a typical plumber."
>Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has introduced a bill that would place an outright ban on acquisitions by any company with a market cap higher than $100 billion.

This is devious and simple. While I'm sure there are some crazy hoops companies will go through to dodge the prohibition, I think this is a great idea. I would prefer to see the market cap dropped to a lower value, and have the number expressed as a multiplier of the median household income.

That being said, I think a lot of these cases still need work. The uber one in particular stands out to me. Uber isn't part of a conspiracy to fix prices with their drivers. They simply hire the drivers for a short term contract to transports uber's customers. It's also difficult to imagine why uber is a monopoly, they still face plenty of local competition and in many cases have been driven out of markets by legislation specifically created to ensure that uber doesn't disrupt local monopolies.
> Working conditions are so dire that the temp workers can’t offer suggestion on working conditions, conditions that would help Amazon integrate better automation in their current system, and make paying workers more comfortably more sensical.

Not sure I follow.

From reading articles about it, the "working conditions" are "dire" because Amazon can press workers to work very hard (fill quotas) in large warehouses that are barely suitable for human habitation.

Both of these are related to Amazon squeezing pennies out of employees/contractors who have zero leverage.

The problem isn't that these employees can't offer "suggestions". Amazon knows very well that if it lowered quotas, allowed more breaks, and added air-conditioning to warehouses, working conditions will improve.

It doesn't do these things because these employees have zero leverage so Amazon makes more money by not offering these improvements.
You beat me to it! :)

https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements-documents/
Yes, by their definition the person stranded on an island for life is the only rebel. Even then, I could see the author arguing that a habit is really just a form of conformance to the person who did the same thing yesterday (even though it was the same person).

Also, there are good reasons to park next to the first car in the lot. One side of car is "protected" for at least a time and the first person probably parked close to the entrance/exit. Although if the first car is very beat up, I'll avoid it out of the guess that if they don't care about their own car, they probably care even less about hitting mine while getting in.
i suspect that you've taken more from their statement than was intended.
8 semesters of CS in HS is serious business. I recall growing up and going to school 94-98 that we basically had a keyboard class, and some classes that taught Lotus 123 - which was kinda hilarious since I was using newer stuff at home.

At the time at home I was also writing Basic, C programs - if I had a CS course it would helped bootstrap my learning a lot better.

My dad kept saying at the time that there probably wouldn't be any programming jobs when I was older because AI was on its way to replace humans. And that was kinda wildly spread knowledge (remember this is basically quasi-pre-internet days).

Every CS course I took in college was an easy A at that point. I didn't go beyond my BS because as many of us know, the industry was calling. And I already had 2 jobs (one self-owned web development company) and worked for another company.

Zooming forward to today, I absolutely believe we won't have AI replacing humans yet - so absolutely think every HS should have a curriculum like yours if not even more aggressive. Then push a BS in CS to be more like an MS in CS. We really do need to make such advancements because, well, all other jobs are being eaten by software.
Also, https://data.gov.in -- Lots of self-submitted datasets, and includes an API. Usability is average, much like the other government data sources.
Here's an informative and entertaining video that explains how the synchrotron light source works and how they use it to image things other tools can't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16028723
That's a good point and a better metric, but it's not meaningless. Very long summer days are worth something! They're just not helpful with SAD.
Couldn’t the EU just require distribution rights be sold for all EU countries collectively?
badUSB means the act of plugging a USB device in constitute an act of trust, right?
I think it's actually important to note that you don't even have to intend to appease your funding sources - it can happen (and I'd say most often does happen) unconsciously.
I did not expect for the interest rate to double with two missed payments. (yes there were low at 2.5% ).

I did not expect to be financially responsible for the entirety of the loan - but not be allowed to know if it is current or behind.

I did not expect that when an interest rate is capped for student loans, that there is an unlimited and compounding penalties that you are again - responsible for - but not allowed to know if you are in good standing.

Every other loan that you owe - they have to tell you what you owe and what the terms are. Not co-signing though
An FPGA is not the same thing as a microcontroller.
Field Programmable Gate Array: An FPGA can be a microcontroller, but a microcontroller can only pretend to be an FPGA. Your microcontroller was probably prototyped on an FPGA.

ASICs are basically FPGA designs etched onto permanent silicon.
Sure, but you could shorten it to "Eating will help you lose weight" and that'd still be true.
I never had a SAD but I put full-spectrum lamps around my apartment, and my entire family approved of that. I think I feel better under that light than under the typical yellow-glow "warm" CFL light, I fell less tired.

The lamps are CRI 90-95, a mix of 5500K and 4000K; they produce pretty bright light (4500 lumen in smaller rooms, 6000 lumen in the bigger room, 3000+ lumen in the bathroom), and it's pretty comparable with the light from the window in the summer.

Note that I live in a NYC apartment which is not exactly spacious; in a typical house, I'd use 1.5 to 2x the amount of light. One of my friends who happens to have particularly large rooms uses 4 to 6 T8 tubes to light them; the tubes are full-spectrum ones used to light movie sets, something like KinoFlo.
How exactly would they ban you? It's not like Slack verifies your identity upon signup. A new email would be sufficient.
Time Warner Cable the company no longer exists. It was acquired by Charter Communications.

Time Warner Cable the internet brand also no longer exists. It was rebranded as Spectrum (Charter's existing brand).
Excerpt:

some scientists are hopeful that hyperaccumulators could be used to "clean" soil where there has been a build-up of toxic material due to human activity.

Other potential applications include phytomining - growing hyperaccumulator plants on nutrient-poor but metal-rich soils to extract the elements they take up.
Not if the EU invalidates provisions in contracts that state it is valid in one member state and not in another.
Well it’s called a job interview for a reason. Inter+view. Prepare for interviews as if you’re hiring them and you’ll have plenty of questions. Your employer needs to deliver as much as you do. Negotiate!

I know it’s a different mindset. Do it long enough and you realise you might as well work for yourself. Or work on contracts and sub out what you can’t directly do but are willing to manage.

My old mindset when I started out was that employers know everything and are all powerful. In reality they had better have more experience than you in multiple ways or they’re going to be fired either by the market or when you have to quit (which is obviously you firing them).
Why shouldn't we have trusted it? It's solid math.
The Cost of Containerization
That’s why we have peer reviews, PhD defenses, and conferences. No system is perfect. As a scientist, I find it appalling how distrustful the public is of science. The only issue is the misrepresentation of science in the media and the lack of understanding the general public has of the scientific process.
Who pays the fine if you work 3 jobs 15 hours a week each? If they are all large employers — all 3 of them?

Remember this doesn’t change anything about what the employee is paid, it’s a fine for paying an employee too little to be self sufficient. I’m not sure that makes sense if someone is only working for you one day a week, for example.
Pure CS is math (a form I find easier than other branches). You'll be much better if you learn the fundamentals.
Good point, I forgot to mention that "race to IPO and cash out" is a viable business strategy, though a sad product strategy. See A123 Systems, Desktop Metal's founder's previous company that went bankrupt. Also the Energous story: https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2016/04/those-other-gu...
Appreciate the correction. I dislike poetry that is not self-contained (and Frost in general), but I guess that would have been common knowledge at the time. I do like Thomas's 'Adlestrop.' It's unfortunate, and probably unsurprising, that Frost meant it in that way, because it cheapens it, but it is what it is.

>The walker should have used the rigorous method the article proposes.

Curious how you'd justify this statement with the text.
It's funny, I actually admire the extent to which Mazda have managed to keep the Miata small. They're still very easy to pick out in a parking lot when viewed from above, even amidst other sports cars.

Is the extra width and weight the Miata has gained over the years down to changing safety standards? I guess on the bright side, in 2019 they're adding a little power.
Genes are key to academic success, study shows
It's not that bad faith. When their initial hypothesis is wrong, instead of considering the null hypothesis (which is the case of accepting you're wrong), you create new conclusions from the data to say why you're still correct. It's the same thing as you said, but it's not done with malintent but done with the just wanting to prove yourself right.
Maybe Americans figured out it's not that much fun to post when you have to consider that your mom, your aunt, your employer, your future employers, law enforcement, the TSA, the NSA and foreign governments are going to read it.
Long live pseudonyms.
It also probably helped that the CA business wasn't Symantec's bread-and-butter.
Don't forget he grew until 7 in the nature, and tough conditions (so not like the average 1st-world kid).

Psychologists seemed to agree on the authenticity of his story and there has been similar other cases.

What's maybe the hardest thing is the cold, during the night. Unless he stayed in the warmth of the den, during those times
Softcover was used for all the Learn Enough books as well. In fact, Learn Enough Ruby just came out today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919998