skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Drexel, they had “physics for designers”, which is roughly what you describe.
Quite a spike in 2011. What happened that year?
How the perception of unfair economic inequality leads to civic unrest
Yes, just like with the pass/fail courses at my university, students would want to pass. Also like those pass/fail courses, most students would put the minimum effort required to pass.

If you're proposing a system where each student gets to progress at their own pace, then:

1. I would have loved to have that in my school.

2. But it demands more resources from schools and creates logistical problems. Every student now graduates with different knowledge.

3. You've recreated the problems problems we were trying to solve by eliminating grades to begin with. Parents will still be angry if their kid has only completed 4 levels of progress when all the good students have completed 10. They'll say they aren't applying themselves. Kids will be under stress to complete as many levels as possible each year. And of course, if each level is pass/fail, it encourages superficial learning of each level. What have we accomplished by eliminating grades?

To answer your first question, grades are not the only possible motivator. Anything that can be measured could be used to motivate. But if you measure the wrong thing, you encourage the wrong behaviour.
Still plenty heavy though. Infamously, one of Strugatsky's books was censored because it described an alien totalitarian society ruled by "The Unknown Fathers"; the censors demanded that the label be changed, among other things. Then there was Efremov, who had trouble publishing some of his stuff at all, despite it being heavily ideologically communist.
Been a big fan of this author since the cypherpunk podcast, strange to see "smuggler" reveal his real (?) name.
I don’t disagree with any of that. The only thing I disagree with is the claim that sf restaurants are suffocating. They aren’t.
Wow! Great article, and interesting info on Philip Wadler!
Ouigo TGVs are cheap.
The FTC Thinks We Pay Too Much for Smartphones
Australia Becomes First Western Nation to Ban Secure Encryption
To some extent - but it is also explicitly contrasted with individual freedoms (presented as a good thing), and limitations on those freedoms have to be justified and rationalized in far more detail than "social harmony".
City of London Corporation warns against second Brexit vote
Thank you - it’s very refreshing to see these points here. So many comments here miss the main points of the article or default to tired lines from Econ 101. Yes more affordable housing is good an important but it takes a long time. And there are a lot of folks suffering in the meantime. To me the core problem is your point 6 - despite our power and wealth, not enough of us give a shit about long term community goals.
Most Unusual Vehicles Part 2
> 5. In order for the market rate price of housing to become affordable to cooks and servers, it would first become dirt cheap for tech workers making 2-4x their compensation. Therefore all of that worldwide demand for SF tech worker housing would need to be satiated before the market solves this problem.

Suppose you take a fraction S of city's residential surface area and build it up by H times average residential height. Housing volume increases by S * H. Most housing in SF is merely 2 stories high. Let's assume average is 3 stories. Now, pick 1% of city's residential area and build it up by adding 30 stories, say from 3 to 33. Note that 33 stories is actually smaller than a few existing tall residential structures in SF [1]. This would give relative increase in housing volume by S * H = 1% * 10 = 10% which given SF's population of >880k [2] amounts to >88k increase in housing capacity. This is more than the entire global workforce of Google [3].

It's a lot of construction work, of course, but it looks feasible. Many cities build a lot higher and on a wider area than the figures above.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Residential_skyscrape...

[2] 884,363 (2017), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco

[3] 85,050 (Q1 2018), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

Edit: formatting and correction
Oh boy,this thing will make me dig my DOS game archive and oldies trove when I get home.
There are a number of outlets that allow e-mail receipts, but they always have terms you have to agree to and then you get spam and have to unsubscribe from their lists ... each time.

This proposal seems to be missing a lot of important details. How will the receipt be transferred? Can it be done via NFC, without requiring tracking data?
The insane spike is for low traffic sites, so I'm guessing a blog platform defaulted RSS.
Most Unusual Vehicles [video]
That's what makes you sick? What about all the very real problems she describes?
Well comparison of Tchernobyl has its limits also. For sure now coal miners would not be sent on the core. But also, nowadays, nuclear power is a much more mature technology. 3rd generation (EPR) are extremely safe: it can resist to a 8m-height wave or a plane crash!

Anyways, even by accepting a death roll of 4k (the biggest estimate of death for nuclear power) over 70 years, it has a lower death rate than wind turbines or PV (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...).
Energy has a human price, and nuclear is definitely not the most costly energy source.

The goal of our generation is to live in a world where coal and fuel are never used. Coal represents 36% of world CO2 emissions and kills every year several millions of people. But coal is one the cheapest and most reliable energy source, while being generally well politically accepted by populations.

To remove coal, when you can't install hydro, you need nuclear. Please don't tell me wind turbines will save us from coal, because Danemark has enough wind turbines to run (and a perfect spot for offshore wind turbines) but no real storage tech, and thus its burns a lot of coal.
>If you want a vibrant city rich with interesting restaurants and cafes then you need to provide housing for the service industry

That sounds like a testable hypothesis. If we examine cities with interesting restaurants and cafes, we will find that most/all have substantial means-tested housing set aside for the service industry?
> The "Little Albert" study could very easily be argued as "ethical" or at least not harmful (almost certainly the behavior became extinct over time) by the researcher, but nonetheless the potential for lifelong harm is there and it would likely never be approved today.

Sure, but those lessons are already learned. It's not like research ethics was materialized out of thin air by institutional review boards: it was synthesized from experience, and then executed by the boards. The ethics are the same whether the assessment is before or after the fact, and nothing stops researchers from consulting the board or anyone else on the topic beforehand, if they are concerned they may run afoul.

I think it's silly to think that an IRB has a better grasp before the fact of how ethical or appropriate a methodology is than the researchers do during the research. In this case, the IRB is being used as a bludgeon to suppress low-risk research which is simply politically inconvenient to the institution.
Please don't post denunciatory rants to Hacker News, regardless of how entitled you feel someone else or their article is.

Even if you're right, the cost of making this place more toxic exceeds the benefit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I mean...it's actually green and gold.

But seriously, I can only think of a handful of official things that use the "official" colours, lots of sports teams but not really used by the government.

Edit: Parent originally mentioned that the website doesn't use the "Official Australian Colours".
The tech workers aren't setting the rents, and they're not the ones taking money from the cooks. They're not the ones setting the politics, either (many of them can't even vote).
The site lacks proper technical explanation of what the problem is exactly.
I think the idea is to use these as "automatic microscopes" instead of as sequencers.
Quoting parent comment:

> Has helped me travel from Bali to Jakarta, through Thailand, Namibia, and with the TransSib.

"TransSib" here is the Trans-Siberian Railway, travelled via the eponymous train. You may know: Siberia is in Russia – as is most of the journey via the railway.

And yes, there is support for travel data in Russia: https://www.seat61.com/Russia.htm
> She hated the move to Windows. All the sudden, everything was slow, error prone, fiddly. Keyboard navigation was mostly gone and although employees could start working with less training, she knew the move was generally a big step backwards.

She was right.

Autohotkey can solve a lot of these problems.

Though it can require some politics playing to accept it as a legitimate tool.
> I personally believe that Tor is compromised. I have been saying this for several years. The amount of bandwidth it consumes, and the reliance on honest entrance and exit nodes

You obviously never bothered to look at who runs relays: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html Plus Tor's threat model already assumes that some nodes are compromised: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#adver... And as others pointed out, the oft-stated "using Tor is better than not" applies.
Wow, I had no idea about gzip --rsyncable. I haven't used rsync in years, so I guess it never became necessary. (Also, I stopped using gzip years ago...)
My father worked on AS/400 applications as a project manager. When they moved to Windows he changed job, but still in the same field. Among his former users, the preferred replacement was Visual FoxPro applications that looked pretty much exactly like the old AS/400 programs---not any newfangled client/server or browser-based thing, even though there were already some available.
I actually like the move to kill background tasks. Don't get me wrong I think they're great when they're needed. But if I only installed the app because the mobile site is crippled I don't want it to destroy my battery polling for content changes when I only open the app once in a blue moon.
> all of these strictly require licensed professionals to do design work

Sure, but it's not clear that the licensure itself reduces accidents or abuse. Plenty of licensed electricians (at least here in Ontario) are deadly incompetent. I've heard at least two accounts of electricians assuring builders or homeowners that a circuit is disconnected, and those people having an unwelcome surprise when they go to cut/remove said circuit.
Parody post https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aft8dw/high_scho...
> But I can't for the life of me understand why anybody would want to preserve the current atmosphere. The one you think you are defending is long gone.

Exactly, damage done.
What do you use it for? I haven't noticed any information on shoe-wearing, but I did notice a whole section on knot-tying.
This sheds a bit more light on it, whilst still being non-technical: https://dontkillmyapp.com/problem/

It seems to be that these vendors ship builds of Android with aggressive battery-optimized defaults that breaks applications that rely on being able to run in the background.
Dark Drones!
Interestingly though it is possible to remotely detect which users are facing this problem and send them instructions on how to add an app to the device's whitelist. I faced this exact problem in my previous company Flock, and built services to detect and inform users which substantially brought down user complaints.

https://hackernoon.com/notifications-in-android-are-horribly...
This is true. But there are good ‘bones’ in place for nyc. We don’t have that here in the Bay Area.
Well, Windows (and all window-based, graphical UI) encourages you to use the _mouse pointer_ with it's clumsy properties like navigating a visual field and upon locating an interactive element, using at most 5 different action buttons (clicks and scrolls).

Compared to that, these old systems were modal (edit, browse, etc modes) and keyboard-based with it's ~100 action buttons, where pixel-by-pixel navigating was not needed.

From an efficiency standpoint, petting a computer with mouse-based navigation is ridiculous. It might help a newbie until they explore a software's features but later on it's a waste of time. And your mother knew this very well.
> and that that last 0.1% is always the most expensive

This is one of the things that gets me. If you get the last .1% that can ever be gotten, what do you do for an encore?

When your userbase grows another 5% or 10% or 20%, it won't be enough. You'd be better off trying to figure out ways to give your users something they want that doesn't require most exotic thing that can be procured. It's expensive to begin with, and it's the end of the road. You don't want to be at the end of a road trying to figure out what to do next.
I haven't followed the scene closely, but isn't it the same behavior as Apple? Can you even do background tasks in iOS?
On the jQuery website, the latest download version is 3.3.1.

http://jquery.com/

On GitHub, it says that 3.3.1 was released January 20th, 2018:

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/releases

Releases matter, as that is what gets the changes to end-users, and infrequent releases typically indicate a stagnant project.

I am not trying to disparage jQuery, rather the opposite, since it is mature and reliable software. Open-source projects, like houseplants, need stewardship, and jQuery (along with other JS Foundation projects) may be overshadowed by JavaScript ecosystem hype-cycles that are competing for mind-share.
Wow, that cool domain he has!
Homeowners homes become more valuable if developers know they could tear it down and build many more units on it.
> The tech workers aren't setting the rents

They are the demand. The politics is the supply. Both are at fault for making SF unlivable for the people that were there from the start.
There is a list of restaurant without tips. Zazie is one of them.
You're welcome :)

The zsync docs clearly talk about "gzip --rsync", which I guess must have been an earlier version of "gzip --rsyncable".
As stated above, open-source projects need stewardship. Otherwise they languish. I genuinely hope for jQuery to continue as a project and community endeavor.
Neither does this
I've personally stopped giving tips in every restaurants not including them.
Dining out is substitutable. At some price level, people will simply eat at home. Already there is a transition to counter-service and take-out restaurants, which save on labor and rent, respectively.
Killing background tasks is great and Android does that automatically to save battery usage. But these manufacturers have implemented their own functionality on top of Android which cripples even critical messaging applications like WhatsApp, Slack, Gmail by not delivering Instant Messages notifications instantly.
I think we’re saying some of the same things, but I’d argue the term “pent up” is not really the best fit for the condition of price inelasticity. That usually is the result of some extraordinary event. Boomtown economics qualify. We’re creating some of the most valuable companies here and are still in the thick of it. That’s just enormous demand for SF housing from all over the country and world.

Any affordable housing for the service industry would be dirt cheap for tech industry workers. If SF was dirt cheap again and the tech boom was still underway, who in the industry wouldn’t move here or start their next company here? That’s how deep the demand goes. That creates price inelastic conditions. It’s Economics 101 for those who actually paid attention.

If we want a vibrant restaurant scene moving forward, or housing for teachers and homeless and whatnot, we need to look beyond just building more market rate supply. There needs to be means tested and/or price controlled housing for the working class (or homeless, etc), and that’s where the market YIMBYs and affordable housing activists come to blows.

That doesn’t equate to making SF unattractive to tech at all. Marc Benioff came around on a local issue here about funding housing for the homeless (prop c). He saw it as an existential threat to Salesforce. Maybe Salesforce is just a more mature (longer term) company than most startups. But he saw that homelessness was actually threatening their bottom line in SF.. in addition to being this huge moral imperative. It’s kind of the same thing with restaurants and that type of quality of life: you can optimize for lowest taxes and maximum housing for tech workers, or you can see the longer term macroeconomic picture.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15466124

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15527936

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vygr

... and I think a few other cool threads if anyone wants to dig them up.
Life is not a race. Either nobody is judging you for your choices or whoever is judging you doesn't have the right to do so.

If you ask yourself what you want to do instead of asking yourself what you want to achieve, the conflicts that demand solace should be gone.

That said, it's still a nice game to try to achieve the most. But that's stressful and you should be in a position of choosing that stress, not submitting to it.
It's strip malls and chain restaurants with far too much concrete everywhere. And for what you do get, absurdly overpriced.
The Tuskgee syphilis experiment resulted also in informed consent laws in clinical trials; which I would argue would have a better effect than trying to get a board within the institution which carried out this experiment to apply an ethical standard to the study.
On a side note: IMHO this article contains one of the most accessible explanations I have seen about monads.
I know a large group of people who have stopped tipping in SF. I'm the same. 0$ tip if it's not included.
Sorting (TimSort) was broken for many years in Python. It was good old-fashioned logic and theorem proving, not tests or runtime assertions, that got it fixed. There is merit in proving properties of any critical implementation, no matter how difficult. However the gist you referenced looks to be someone's learning effort, so hardly a model example.

Your view on the role of types is unfortunate if you think term logic is simply mirrored at the type level (Plato's Cave). The Curry-Howard correspondence tells us to think of types as logical propositions with terms as their proofs.
Custom alarm clocks and health trackers work fine on my OnePlus. What is the problem exactly?
Most engineers in the bay area don't tip anymore.
It's not dying at all. The death of Google Reader led to a healthier ecosystem with many competitors.
Don't drain my battery - Hey Android devs, don't drain my battery when I'm not running your app.
Anyone concerned about the impact on the environment in and around the city / increase in traffic / strain on limited water resources / etc.
No worries Uma. The project looks interesting, and it's even written in Go, so I'll probably take it for a spin in the next few weeks. :)
This article strikes me as unnecessarily negative. This only began to roll out as of Jan 1, and the dust is still settling. Even if it's not perfect, it's still an improvement over the previous situation and I'm sure it will be iterated on.
No. These are restaurants i JApan. Not fast food places.
the last bit
I did something similar for over 3 years, with a cron job and imagemagik. It takes a webcam shot as well as a screenshot and combines them once per hour.

I have 13000 images at the moment from late 2015 to early 2018 (I forgot to enable in after I switched laptop).

One thing that was unexpected was that initially the script would put all images into one folder, which lagged a lot to open due to the massive amount of images. So I had to change it to put them into year-month-day folders.

I personally found that taking only a webcam shot lost all context, especially if you - like me - spend 90% of your time either at home or at work.

You can see the script here as well as some examples. http://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/15/automating-screenshots....
How to Write a Stellar Instruction Manual
MUJA is a gaming touchpad that sticks to the back of your phone (crowdfunding)
I worked at Babbages in the early to mid 90's. It was very sad to watch the "Multimedia" revolution happen before my eyes... I wasn't impressed then and the multimedia titles didn't age well, imo. Midi in games had so much more potential that I don't believe was ever fully realized.
In the bay area people:

* Don't want to tip

* don't want to see taxes added at the very end

* Don't want the service (seating, waitering, etc)

If restaurants don't evolve they will die yes
But most people never knew what it is. Why would RSS be any more dead than 10 years ago?
Aren't homeless destroying their neighborhood already?
I rendered the MIDI with VLC & FatBoy. You can get it from here: https://cl.ly/13d40e7155a5

There should be download button at the top bar.
Alternatively: https://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/index-en.html
We have a lot of this sort of thing in LA (yes, in Japanese restaurants). You order by iPad, pay, and then when you get a table after waiting 3-15 minutes, your food comes pretty quickly. When you're done, you leave.

It seems to work. We Americans can adapt!
Curious Case of a 99.9% Latency Hike
I've used these so much:

function gc() { grep -rnI "$@" * ;}
function gcA() { grep -rnI -A 5 "$@" * ;}
function gcB() { grep -rnI -B 5 "$@" * ;}
function gcC() { grep -rnI -C 5 "$@" * ;}
function gcf() { grep -rnIl "$@" * ;}

Just helper functions built on top of grep
One would think that the federal design system would seep down to the state governments but NSW is creating it's own design system - https://www.digital.nsw.gov.au/article/weve-released-first-d...
More businesses and types of work rely on illegal labor who are willing to live in working conditions legals often aren't.
tl;dr The author would like to run his app in the background without notifying the user about it, because otherwise the author would just add add an ongoing notification, which would allow the app to run in the background forever on all platforms.
The apps are not allowed to do background process. But can register a callback to be called when is in background. But there is no guarantee it will be called for sure.
And the Aussie crypto debacle? How we would all start boycotting everything digital down under, remember?

No, we probably don't. That was last month, beyond any conceivable attention span.

Still, I'll pass.
If you click on a brand you get more detail, e.g.:

https://dontkillmyapp.com/nokia
Fair.

I removed that part of the comment

As an American living in Sydney, and working for an agency, I feel like accessibility is behind the US. This set of tools should help, but also the use of Lighthouse by QA teams is key.

With Lighthouse, any score below 90 on any metric means our work fails QA —- it’s in our contracts to exceed 90. As a result, our clients rave about how easy it was to pass accessibility and security audits. Only secret is Lighthouse, and other automated checks, as part of the build process.
I think I've noticed watching blunders in pro-chess tournies, that as a scrub chess player I see moves like: Develop, get rook to open file, don't advance pawns protecting the king, knight on rim is dim.

The pro may calculate a huge line that requires breaking a simple rule, and in the end that may come back to bite them. Where me, all I see is "hey don't leave the knight on the edge like that."
People from more or less politically stable countries like the US are very naive in not considering what can happen to the best of governments overnight.

People from Europe have this sort of... experience. Most of us know that trusting the government with our lives is not a good idea.
Maybe it will force the police to focus on violent crimes.

The best counter to terrorism is a homogeneous population.
Z80 arithmetic: also surprisingly terrible (2018)