skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe any familiarity with any programming language will provide a student with a step-up when they leave the high-school environment and enter college.

While I am not excited about AP classes lowering standards, the Wikipedia entry makes it clear that it was discontinued because so few students were taking the exam. After reading the article, it appears that most of these organizations working with high school educators and their students arrived on the seen much more recently: Code.org started working with the College Board in 2015. What they are doing appears to be working: the number of students both taking and passing the test has risen. This strikes me as unequivocally positive.

In my experience, Java is not the friendliest environment. For someone with zero development background, I can easily imagine that the IDE and tools themselves are intimidating, let alone the language with all it's jargon and (in many cases) self-aggrandizing techno-speak. Perhaps the success of these programs will get more development classes into high school, but I think that even this level of success is significant.
Haven't ascribed malintent at all. I will say the people you describe have moralized their authority, as we all tend to, and I have described it without that filter. It's just incentives.
Yes that is all well and good, until that "content" and its message also starts being dictated by whomever is in charge of the government.

All of these things always sound like a great idea when you have good people in government. However almost everyone seem to forget that bad people do get into government too.

Having governments dictate or force quotas and determining content always ends up biting the people in the long run.
I'm not even sure what school "UG" refers to. (People generally call the University of Georgia "UGA".)

In any case, the program here is from Georgia Tech.
Shopify's migration to the ingress-nginx Ingress controller
You know when you only work 1 day and you figure it's Tuesday, even though it's Wednesday and you forgot about the holiday. What's the term for that?
>There are nearly 400,000 possible unlock patterns on the 3x3 swipe grid on Android phones, but prior research has demonstrated that 20 percent of people use one of 12 common patterns. While testing SonarSnoop, the researchers only focused on these dozen unlock combinations.

It seems to me that the effectiveness of this exploit comes more from the poor passwords most people use than any truly “earth shattering” security flaw in the technology.
I just tried http://nytimes.com with both Lynx and Safari "in Lynx mode" (disabled JS, CSS, Images).

Reminded me how much I miss gopher.

Lynx's rendering was unusable, because their front page has all the nav, colophon, etc. cruft ahead of the content (in the DOM).

Safari's rendering was almost usable. It still shows fancy typeface for the headmast, etc. Huh. Then I tried to disable custom fonts. I was amused to learn they're rendered with SVG, with no alt-text.
To my eyes semicolons are like comments in JS code which indicate "this has been linted for publication". But this > (one); (occasion) where a semicolon can have meaning in JS leaps out of the screen - even easier if they are not blanketed everywhere. The incomplete blanketing in this code is very casual. I see it no more than an invitation to hand-lint what I want to touch.
Show HN: Keysheet – Rotten tomatoes for cryptocurrencies
It's a real dystopia if the state decides which movies you should or shouldn't watch.

Agreed, but fortunately this isn't that. Although the big the question is if this will lead more EU content being added to the services or more non-EU content being removed from the service to make the quotas. The other risk is that Netflix etc. will basically just say "go out and find me 150 hours of EU made content, I don't care what it is, for as little money as possible so we can fulfill our quota" and that this will do little or nothing to promote actual quality or interesting work.

Either way though it's still the services and not the state that decide which movies "you should or shouldn't watch"
Is your OP speaking of BC? Not clear to me, total ignoramus.
The EU make a lot of stupid decisions, this is definitely one of them. All that happen is streaming providers will just shrink the catalogues massively for non-US customers. 30% is easy to achieve when the subscribers only get about 50 items to choose from in total.
Practically speaking this isn't an issue though. You don't see many spine and leaf networks that are deeper than 3 tiers(edge, distribution, ToR) which means one link upstream and one down. It's not like people build networks arbitrarily deep.
I've said this before, but the EU overstepped their intended mandate the very moment they decided that they were more than the ECSC.

It is beyond me how those numbnuts in Brussels keep thinking up more stupid and useless plans each time. Not only is it completely up to streaming services what they do and do not offer in terms of content, now you force those services to split up what they show per country, decentralising their services, since it's not possible to adhere to the 30% rule otherwise.
I, as an EU citizen, have the exact same reaction.

If the EU wants original cultural content, subsidize that content, and perhaps use anti-trust law or direct subsidy to coerce Netflix to license this content.
But there is no active harm done in Netflix et. al. choosing what is popular. Unless they actively work to keep cultural content off their platforms, this kind of hard requirement is simply outrageous.
I you doubt the benefits of natural light, here is a story from a good friend of mine.
Few years back when he was in college, he took an appointment with a doctor because started to feel depressed with no obvious reason (no family drama, health issues whatsoever...). Very quickly the doc asked him where he was spending most of his time, answer: in a classroom with tiny windows, curtain closed and artificial lights.
ASCE Code of Ethics
The first gene-silencing drug wins FDA approval
Katniss was a heroine to the viewers. Holmes is not a heroine to a anyone. And she exploited the “strong female” narrative all along the way, undermining other women.
So the prospect of shoestring country news channels or 24/7 streaming of a local clocktower as way to `statisticaly` claim compliance, cannot be ruled out.

So this regional 30% could be just as riveting as a watching a chimney stack. Though may work in parts of Italy.
> If accountability is at all an American standard

That's your problem right there. I see no evidence (from the perspectives of politics, business, religion or any other angle I can think of) that Americans actually care even a tiny bit about accountability. They're perfectly happy to say they do, but when push comes to shove its a thin sheen over tribalism ("My opponents are obviously not being held to account").
You're right, that seems correct. The Wikipedia [0] article also points in that direction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Struggle_(Knausg%C3%A5rd_no...
I am not sure why you are saying this is a "half-truth."
AP classes always had a half-year courses (A) vs a year long study (AB.) The Comp Sci A test has been taught for 20+ years, and looking at the cirrocumuli looks like a punch list of today's typical junior dev interview, and looks equivalent to the real first class (not survey) in any com sci program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Computer_Science_A
"go out and find me 150 hours of EU made content, I don't care what it is, for as little money as possible so we can fulfill our quota"

Good news, Netflix already do this.
I'm amazed something this poorly thought out is about to be 'signed off'.

I foresee shrinking catalogues and a massive increase in piracy. Go EU!
I'm not an expert in media laws, but my understanding from the broadcast days was that TV broadcasters got access to radio spectrum for effectively zero or peppercorn rates and in return were required to broadcast a certain level of local content. Broadcast licences were also limited in number by the available spectrum.

An on-demand catalog is also quite different from broadcast, being measured by content availability rather than transmission time, and a 30% (or higher) local content bar seems to me to be a rather high level for an on-demand service, however, I read elsewhere [0] that Netflix is already close to meeting this, so the restriction is not likely to be too onerous for them at least.

[0] https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/04/eu-will-force-netflix-and...
that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title
Twitter Latest Firefox Releases Available Today
Hi HN,

We made Keysheet to help non-technical people understand crypto through the lens of expert reviews. The problem is that 99.9% of the population can't understand crypto from a technical perspective. We want to help people develop “taste” instead.

You can't rely on institutions in crypto because there aren't many meaningful ones, making it hard to tell charlatans from legit projects. Our curation narrows the set of people who you can 'trust' and then you can take a deeper dive to learn how they think.

It's still a work in progress, but we'd love your feedback on what works and what could use improvement!
> But balance doesn't seem like too much to ask. Because Hollywood is doing fuck all for diversity.

Six million Wakandans might disagree with you...
Meanwhile, nobody will force this 30% limit on pirates, who will, yet again, provide what consumers actually want.
I don't study Chinese, but I do study Japanese which shares the issue of combination words being multiple kanji (not a big surprise since kanji come from hanzi after all...)

It's something you learn over time for the ones that are more obvious at least. Not all combination words are straight forward, but many basic words are straightforward. "羊肉" is literally "lamb meat" and if you're told 牛 means "cow" you can probably guess "牛肉" means "cow meat". And if 豚 means "pig", what do you think "豚肉" means? And 魚 means "fish" so "魚肉" means? They aren't always so perfectly straight forward, but I bet you can guess what this means too: 消防士 "extinguish (a fire), defend, gentlemen."

This type of meaning inference doesn't always work, though it will for the vast majority of what many would consider "basic vocabulary".
Not only that, but Chinese reading has very little to do with speaking. The vocabulary and even grammar are way too different unless you are reading a kid’s book. If your goal is speaking and listening, you have tk practice that separately.
WWII live game For King and Country shows games and theatre are getting closer
I mean, Uwe Boll is European (German, specifically).
Very interesting. This makes it sound like there should be a way to control `std::lower_bound` to switch to linear probing once it's narrowed the range down enough. (In the specific example, "enough" is about 125 elements.)

Likewise for a hash table with separate chaining, wouldn't one better-than `std::unordered_set` way to do it be to keep the separate chains as a `std::vector` that is kept sorted, and then use `std::lower_bound` (or the above better version of it) to probe the table? Those separate tables are O(1) in size, so lookup and insertion are still O(1) on average. Worst case goes to O(n log n), but that doesn't seem too bad.

Related: Is there a widely-used "frozen set" C++ data structure? I'm picturing something that is constructed from a sequence but that internally is a sorted `std::vector<T>` that provides a set-like API but that uses `std::lower_bound` to find data. It's easy enough to write, but it seems like it should be in the standard or at least Boost.
Did you try emailing support@cloudflare.com?
Google Smart Lock for All
Given a choice of dystopias, I would also prefer to avoid the one where "the market" decides what I should or shouldn't watch. Nothing here is suggesting that you should be prevented from watching Jersey Shore, or the Kardashians, or whatever superhero action flick is in vogue this month, if that's your taste; but if it all came down to money then that's all any of us would get whether we like it or not.
I love this.

I was most surprised by the "Women vs. men, young vs. old". To learn that HR gets lower with age. Since old people die a lot. All of them actually.

Feels like a paradox since lower HR is associated with being healthy - and the rest of the graphs seems to suggest so.
It's Mebibytes (megabinary) from the units in the pictures, so it's slighty more in megabytes. 1MiB = 1.04858MB

So Google Inbox actually uses 225.4447 MB
> as easy to onboard and use as the tech giants

It doesn't need to be as easy to onboard and use. Freedom from censorship and surveillance is worth an awful lot of inconvenience in initial setup, and more people learn that every day.
I like the GDPR, I like many other EU rules. In short, I am quite in favor of a big EU.

But this is simply stupid. This is straight-up protectionism / weird national pride.
That's great, for you. However, many users utilize the wide feature set that it provides and power their business on top of that feature set.

Should you have to pay the price for that? Probably not. I like the you have a way to avoid the things you don't need and save memory and time.
> A Good Thing is letting me watch whatever the fuck I want

While I disagree in part with this, it is not forcing you on the chair and autoplaying a cult movie. You still watch what you want.
> after the 2008 global financial crisis, in which several prominent financial institutions failed and millions of people lost their homes to foreclosure, only one banker was sentenced to jail time, and only for 30 months.

Just because something bad happened doesn't necessarily mean there was a crime for which an individual can be sentenced to jail time (regardless of public outcry after the fact). Here's a list of SEC enforcement actions arising from the crisis https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/enf-actions-fc.shtml
Female minorities are a woahfully under represented at today's software companies. This article is great news and shouldn't be shaded by "well it was harder in my day" BS.
I'm as much of a Black Panther fan as anyone... but how many Hispanic Marvel superheroes are there?
Crazy for being sensitive to it :).
I dunno. Is posf really better than indexOf? Why not use more conventional names for the underscore-ish functions they made?
In my experience a formal education also has little to no correlation to programmer quality.

All of the best programmers I know are self-taught.
>It is beyond me how those numbnuts in Antwerp keep thinking up more stupid and useless plans each time

You may question your sources of information.
Well, they effectively put a cap on available foreign content to 2.3 times what's available domestically. If there's, say, 300 movies produced in your country, you will have to limit the selection of foreign movies to 700.

Numbers picked from thin air as an example, but I still say that it quite severely limits my choice as an individual.
What's to prevent streaming services just underfunding projects to tick the boxes of getting the catalogue to 30%?

Producers can secure rights to a movie that in order to retain the rights, the must produce a film - of any quality. That's how 1994 version of Fantastic Four was made. A low budget B-movie to prevent the rights being transferred back to Stan Lee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrbFLJHeX8w
All Failed Google Products [French]
Protectionsm is bad in all its forms. USA wants to protect it markets, and English language is one of tools to do that. Same for Russian language. Google forces me to Russian and English sites even if local versions are exist and I explicitly say that I want local version via "lang:Ukrainian". Google just ignores me and my needs and drives traffic to Russian and English sites. Youtube tries to convince me with Russian clips for years. The only tool I have is to ban every Russian clip I saw, but it helps only partially. I cannot do that for English clips, so my Recommended page is 99% of English clips and few ones sometimes in Ukrainian.

I have my own site: Linux.org.ua. At beginning, it was very popular site because it was the top national site about Linux. Then Google turned switch (in 2007?) and redirected all our national traffic to linux.org.ru, because 150M Russians is way more than 50M Ukrainians. Same for other sites, so almost all our niche national sites died.
Somehow this article doesn't link to its sources.

For rectangularness: https://pappubahry.com/misc/rectangles/

For roundness: https://gciruelos.com/what-is-the-roundest-country.html
Our office recently installed dimmers on all the lights and if you walk around, every single group has it set to the lowest it'll go. We also have our blinds down - they darken, but are semi transparent, so you can see outside, but it cuts the light by a ton.
Yeah, I'm failing to see the practice behind this as well.

It was big news in Croatia that Netflix got a local TV show available in its catalogue a few months ago (The Paper, AKA Novine in Croatian). As far as I can tell, it remains the only one.

In practice, does that mean that Netflix would have to reduce their Croatian catalogue to like three shows until they purchase the rights to reproduce additional domestic ones?
Key points:

1. The Lean Startup isn’t dead.

2. For most organizations, Lean is now essential to deliver innovation at speed, and the Innovation Pipeline is more relevant than ever.

3. But when capital is readily available at scale, it makes more sense to go big, fast, and make mistakes than it does to search for product/market fit.
I sort of see your point, but what you're arguing is that they should just change the wording of the contracts. You're not going to get what you want anyway.

We ran into that issue with the marketing department and upper management when I work at a telco. We where starting to sell 3G USB modems, and "plan" was that we'd start to push internet via 3G, because it was 7Mbit at the time and that would be plenty fast. There would be no need to sell ADSL connections anymore.

The issue, which the people responsible for the network pointed out is that the 7Mbit was SHARED. It assumed that the user was alone on that tower. Also there's a limit on the connection to the tower it self, these are fiber now, so not a major issue, but a limiting factor at some point.

Internet via 4G is certainly faster than 7Mbit now, but it's still a shared capacity. If you surf the net, check your emails and such, it's in burst so it's fine to share. Streaming is you using a constant amount of traffic for a sustained period of time and that's not what the cell network is designed to do.
Did it though?

Although Stuxnet appears to be designed to destroy centrifuges at the Natanz facility, destruction was by no means total. Moreover, Stuxnet did not lower the production of low-enriched uranium (LEU) during 2010. LEU quantities could have certainly been greater, and Stuxnet could be an important part of the reason why they did not increase significantly. Nonetheless, there remain important questions about why Stuxnet destroyed only 1,000 centrifuges. One observation is that it may be harder to destroy centrifuges by use of cyber attacks than often believed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#Natanz_nuclear_facilit...
Have you brought a Design System into your workflow yet?
Yeah, stupid mistake. I meant Brussels.
"Most interesting" seems like a pretty subjective metric. The advances that come to my mind are things like agriculture, calculus, the scientific method, Newton's theories, representative democracy, post-modernism... those all resulted from decades of effort by groups of people who focused on that task specifically.

Tools are super valuable; it's arguable that many of the things I list above are sort of tools. I just don't think that a tool that is quickly slapped together in the service of another project is likely to be a game-changer.

In fact, I'd say that one of the keys to growing your personal impact is to find the best work that's already been done, and use it to further your goal. Even Newton said he was standing on the shoulders of giants.
Google wants to change the way we interact with URLs
Not even close to the truth. What you are describing is a perfect functioning market, with producers just interested in serving the needs of the customers. In reality, things are way more complex:

- producers try to reduce costs

- producers ignore customer demands as long as they are able to do it. In particular when the customer has no option because competitors are following the same cost-saving approach.

- customers give up and start watching second-best options, and get used to them (tragedy of the commons)

- there are synergy effects which allow producers to get away with sub optimal options: I will use my Amazon Prime account to watch videos, even if I am not entirely happy with the offer, because I am already paying for Prime for delivery.

- the world is complicated, and consumers have little time and power, while producers can spend time writing 30 pages contracts. The only way to balance power here is to associate, but citizens are quite bad at it. The EU is an association, and I am happy that they are taking into account the consumer's interests.

I wonder when will this fallacy of "the market works to fulfill the interests of the customers" die out ...
Given a choice of dystopias, I would also prefer to avoid the one where "the market" decides what I should or shouldn't watch.

You really want the state deciding what you watch?
I think it's the view - we have blinds you can see out of but darken the space by a ton, and everyone keeps em down all the time.
Clear tokenism. How often is a film like that released? If anything its success is a reflection of the potential for more diverse protagonists.
Research in Brief: Building Switch Software at Scale and in the Open
> "A device comprising a single atom." So... an atom?

The quote comes from the story itself, and, while strange things happen between an academic's mouth and a reporter's keyboard, I'm willing to trust that there's some technicality that means that the apparently simpler phrasing is in some sense incorrect, or less desireable. Here's how the story describes it:

> To prove this, Romero and colleagues constructed a tiny machine known as a photonic quantum switch – essentially a gate mechanism built from a single atom, that can be turned on and off by using a single photon.
Will we see an equivalent of Second City TV's "Great White North"?
Loads? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latino_superheroes
Write it with all the modern "proper" approaches, and good luck even just recompiling it in 10 years. While this code - however imperfect - remains just as maintainable today as it was when originally written (which is probably more than 10 years ago).
Facebook IPO’ed in 2012. It was huge among investors especially retail. Meanwhile places like Reddit and Hacker News were the ones saying how bad the stock and company was.
I'm also in EU.

An Even Better Thing is to not have whole generations conditioned from childhood (by a system that distributes predominantly Hollywood movies for them to watch), to believe that those are "whatever the fuck" they actually want as free agents to watch.

An Even Better Thing is to introduce people to multiple cinematic cultures (and multiple cultures in general), not just the global monoculture that pushes the cultural and political agendas of the country that makes it, and expresses its own preoccupation and worldview as if the rest 95% of the world doesn't matter.

Especially since there are tens of different cultures and perspectives within the EU to represent. Not just the global fast food movies that are cheap to purchase and project because EU distributors only pay for screening rights (and not for their production costs).