skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My similar aged, non-HD iMac became unusable until I wiped and reinstalled the OS. (I had been upgrading it in place for years).

The process was surprisingly fun, too.
I have this book even though I live in a major city.

It's a great teaching manual and helps build up common sense to learn about what can be treated at home and what is serious.
I'm not sure there's any legal significance to those minute phrasing changes.
Among other things, in Lettre de la Bonne Nouvelle he described his encounters with a deity.
This is a good point. From the article
"Once the students were selected, the researchers then administered the Major Field Test in Computer Science, an exam that was developed by the U.S. Educational Testing Service and is regularly updated. The exam was translated for the students in China and Russia."

It seems reasonable to expect a test written for a specific education system (either implicitly or explicitly) will be biased against others.

On the other hand, it is not that surprising that the US is a the top. It is a pretty big country with a long tradition for high quality education and a lot of funds going into CS departments. However, I will be surprised if this is not changing towards more dominance by India and China, because both countries are focusing a lot of resources in this area.
Despite which, we have more overweight (~2e9) than hungry (~815e6) people in the world.
I'm a little skeptical of the claim that you can't overdose on them (overdose in the sense of using them too much, not lethal overdose). Anecdotally I had a friend in high school who was a brilliant programmer and started using LSD and other psychedelics.

He started posting tons of strange, nonsensical pseudo-spiritual ramblings on facebook and after a few years of this, it became clear he wasn't even the same person anymore - the drugs permanently changed him.

To be fair I don't know if he was using other drugs in conjunction with psychedelics but my (possibly ignorant) gut feeling is to be wary of implications of harmlessness when it comes to any drug.
Proof that Apple has anorexia: 5mm thin on the outer edge of the all-in-one computer and monitor. Thinner than a lot of monitor-only's everywhere else. What is the purpose? Who would not trade a thicker stationary monitor for better upgrade-ability and/or a cheaper price? Look behind your monitor - odds are, it's just a bunch of empty space behind it on your desk. I would love to be a little bird on the wall in the Apple strategy meetings where they decided that iMacs need to be that thin. I still have an old iMac G3 kicking around from 1999. It's over a foot deep, just takes up the empty space behind the screen on the desk - no big deal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescetarianism
And if I recall correctly it sent back SCCS-style data
There is also huge variation within countries. The curriculum is basically up to each college or university in the US. I never took this test.
The Poet Who Planted Trees
Here's a question from the other side - what are good courses for people from these countries to study so that they become more skilled ?

Im assuming that most of the Coursera/udacity/etc combo is ineffective, because the students from other countries must already be consuming them. So the difference is clearly originating from college level courses.

Should everyone just do Abelson and Sussman + Knuth and call it a day ?
For me the only reason I'd want this is actually touch-id with webauthn, but it's not supported :(

Works on Chrome as I found out today.
There aren't really options if you want the form factor, silent operation and MacOS.

Also, I won't be upgrading my main work computer in at least 5 years. I'm now on 2011 iMac which is still a great computer, but unfortunately can't be updated to the latest MacOS any more.
"Neither one sounds like a place I want to go visit to check out for myself." ... please do. Make up your own mind.
No TypeScript? Anywhere there is JS there is also TS, since it compiles to JS.
My point wasn’t to use Spring, my point is that it’s ludicrous to refer to Rails as “battle-tested” when most people who test it abandon their Rails prototype eventually anyway. My actual advice is probably that every stack sucks, but some stacks at least get out of your way.

> The working example I took away from the exercise was that writing a simple edit page with a nested model. It took me 3 lines of code in Rails, with a few dozen more from the generators....

> Some people get hung up on, say, race conditions of database validations

Because those race conditions mean that your cute three-line edit page is eventually going to turn into a hundreds-of-lines monstrosity if you actually try to put it into production. Rails is a great rapid prototyping framework, granted, but once you try and run a Rails app in production, you’re still face-first in all the complexity Rails pretends to handle for you when it’s just localhost:3000.
I work in an async python microservices shop and the second language we added was Elixir for anything that needed to be more performant. We're just starting to play around with Go. I haven't touched Elixir yet, so I'll probably go from Python straight to Go as soon as I get the chance.
Indeed, TikZ is great to create beautiful-looking plots! A friend of mine is quite good at it, e.g. look at Figure 2 in [1] and Figure 2.1 (p. 18) in [2]. For complex figures, though, I find that TikZ can be a bit hard to master and sometimes results in longer compilation times.

[1] http://www.hrzn.ch/publications/tf-icnp15.pdf
[2] http://www.hrzn.ch/publications/thesis.pdf
You're broadening the discussion from freedom of speech to freedom in general, and I don't think the conversation is particularly valuable over-broad. In terms of homicides, looking at London's rate relative to, say, major cities in the US, I strongly suspect the 2nd Amendment in the US plays a lot more role than the 1st. Comparing London to, say, Chicago, it seems that the freedom to run around with untracked firearms isn't doing the US any favors. Maybe it's the cultural difference, but I don't see London's rate as "epic" given that they're a city of 8 million souls and US cities with smaller populations have more murders.

But freedom of speech and freedom to be armed are different freedoms.
You "half understand" liveleak and "you get" 4chan and 8 chan but should that be the basis for law and what thought is acceptable in a free society?

Do we really want some political committee sitting around and arguing the merits of these people's writing? What about weird kink websites? What about radical political blogs that advocate for policy you find dangerous? You may find some of these things abhorrent but there are almost certainly people who would find certain things you believe abhorrent.

Any time you get into individual selection of what is acceptable thought and what isn't you are crossing a very dangerous line. Even if the initial things that are deemed unacceptable seem reasonable.

Edit: Telco monopolies relating to infrastructure are essentially state actors. There is a big difference here between a Telco refusing to route traffic and a bookstore deciding what content to carry.
At the very least, as many as the white supremacy terrorist incident hoaxes.
Only a matter of time before they solder the RAM in the imac like they did in the macbook.
The immediate follow up question would be "but why don't they make the arms shorter?"

As far as I know the problem then is you'd have to bounce the light even more to compensate, and for each bounce you lose some light. Say you drilled "just" 1km down. To compensate you'd have to bounce the light 1200 times. Say the mirrors reflect 99.9% of the light. After 300 bounces you still have 74% of the light left, but after 1200 bounces that's down to 30%. And that's only the reflection loss, then you got beam spread etc.

So why not just increase the laser power to compensate then? AFAIK, increasing laser power means increasing laser noise, so that would ruin your signal to noise ratio.

In addition, the shorter arm means you'll be even less sensitive to longer wavelength gravitational waves, regardless of the number of bounces. The LISA mission was supposed to use satellites flying 2.5 million km from each other, to be able to detect really low frequency waves.
This is not the first time that they have significant updates days before a major announcement.

I suspect that Apply keeps a lot of options for things to talk about until the last days. They wait for every key aspect of the announcement to be confirmed (which can be days earlier). That allows them to focus on the expected change if they are ready, or, if there is a last-minute issue, they can talk about spec upgrades to fill the hour, or rather to ramp up the announcement (e.g. “With all that memory, HD videos are going to look _gorgeous_. And you know where you can find HD videos? Boom! New VOD service!”). It’s consistent with descriptions of how Steve Jobs would scrape large segments of his keynotes at the last minute.
For what are people going to use the Jetson Nano.
> When it comes to computer science skills, U.S. students approaching graduation have a significant advantage over their peers in China, India, and Russia.

There are a few explanations for this

1.) Programming is an English skillset, which the native English-speaking countries have an advantage. Out of the native English speaking countries (US, England, Canada, Australia, and others), US has the biggest economy, the best tech companies that can train students as interns, and the best infrastructure to grow the students. Where as China, while it does have the population advantage, doesn't have the English capability. Chinese government is currently actively engaging in nationalism (maligning foreign brands, censoring foreign cultures, destroying churches, arresting pastors, saying winnie the pooh is an evil foreign influence), thus will have less and less English skillset overtime.

2.) more innovative/risk taking mindsets. This allows a more creative problem-solving skills amongst students. The Chinese education style is regurgitation and there is a culture of copying and cheating amongst students. Rote learning is widely practiced in schools in India as well, which isn't conducive to innovative problem solving.
Since you're using a desktop, what's wrong with the 2018 Mac Mini? Upgradable RAM, storage and GPU can be added externally. Dual 4k support out of the box or a single 5k should be enough for your single monitor?
To declare the advantages reliquinshed requires some kind of discussion of the `unsafe` blocks' scope. How many, how much code?

Regardless, I'm not even sure I'd say that memory safety is Rust's biggest advantage. It's certainly the headliner and it's critically important. But it's a really appealing package overall IMO.
Ideally competition would result in another player coming in and producing the cure. Since the non-cure treatment is already dominated by another player, you could make some money curing people versus no money trying to develop another non-cure to compete with an established player.
I Don't Hate Arrow Functions
Most Cryptocurrency Trading Volume Is Suspicious
Indeed, it's pretty useful to be able to rasterize only parts of the plot! Glad you find it useful!
you don't need a lighter to make fire, and you don't need to sharpen, you regrind.
j2ee is an example of mass mistook for an example of good. It was taught as the ultimate goal to marvel at the complexity of the remote objects.

ps: if I had to glorify something it's globalization incentives to improve metrology. Precision is what gives you modern things.
For a low-risk way to make this decision, check out programs like Georgia Tech's Online MS in Computer Science. [0] It confers the same degree as the on-campus program at a small fraction of the cost. Take a class while working and if you like it, continue to pursue the MS (either with GT, or you could transfer the credits somewhere else). If not, drop out and you're only out ~$800.

[0] http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/
> making sure that both the educational institutions and students enrolled at those schools were statistically representative of schools and computer science students throughout the respective nations.

Given the typical CS student body, this basically means Indian, Chinese, and Russian students studying at US universities performed better than those studying at Indian, Chinese, and Russian universities...

Either because US universities teach better or because the best students come to the US for their education.
Said this for years nothing is as powerfull as dmt/hamalas .. I’ve seen a dusin times how it changed the life of someone myself included with a single trip you could live on it for years.
Wow, just goes to show you journalists will editorialize anything!
Ok, I am going to say it.

I am not a free speech absolutist. But with the coming technology, like MaidSAFE and others, it will become possible for people to communicate and say whatever they want, no way to censor. Full stop.

The governments will go back to having moles inside each group they care about, which is more targeted and harder.

For numerous examples of why free speech matters, the other way, look at the latest article on at https://qbix.com/blog

It’s like 3d printed guns, or desktop printers or copiers. Things that governments heavily regulated through gatekeepers now can be produced by anyone.

I will say this... if you add up ALL the mass shootings in the USA they add up to less than 2% of all shootings. And if you add up ALL shootings and killings, including by Boko Haram and so on, we have far less than 100 years ago, 1000 years ago, 5,000 years ago etc.

Steven Pinker was right. We are getting far more peaceful, because of technology. As long as we keep a check on population growth, we may even have enough resources, not too much garbage and sustainable living in every generation.

If anything, Boko Haram (which stands against Western education) is an example of values from hundreds of years ago. They are more violent.

Today’s values are much less violent but they will only survive if we can live sustainably, and that starts with women’s education and having children later.
Interesting! I've been writing a lot of C/C++ for over a decade, but had never heard of C-- before.

So, I went to the website[1] linked in the PDF to learn more, but sadly it appears the domain has been taken over and now just displays a small collection of badly written articles about Windows.

[1] http://cminusminus.org
Why can’t we have a text only newspaper with text only ads?

Advertisement in modern world is so insanely rotten to the core, it is disgusting. These people have made the web unbearable.

I really think there is a place for text only ads on a sites such as text.npr.org, even though they’re not as “eye catching”. Where is the innovation in advertisement? It’s the same bullshit banners, eye catching gifs and insanely long loading times with custom fonts and what not. Yes, it is “eye catching” but I am also convinced that there is a place for text only ads (such as on Google.com). Visual bandwidth of the human brain is obviously much higher than auditory (language and reading) pathways, but I might just click a text only ad if it’s relevant and “vetted” - I.e. no shady companies, no scams, etc.

May be we could see a growth in independent journalism with text only sites and ads: low startup costs, low bandwidth and server infrastructure and high click rates on their ads.

Just thinking about the advertisement industry, the people that work in it and the kind of dark patterns they employ makes me infuriated. You know, I don’t want to be friends with these kind of professionals.
Called it three days ago [1]. My prediction is the UK is next and the list of sites will be even longer. This horrible event has become a bittersweet gift to politicians who have been waiting for their chance to coerce ISPs into blocking a few more web sites on their "naughty lists".

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19402858
I'm curious: why would you want a headless machine with a real video card?

If, as I'm guessing, you want to connect an external monitor, what would be your monitor choice (and how would you connect it) to get 5K?

From my research, the iMac (or iMac Pro) was pretty much the only way to get a working non-crappy 5K setup.
It's never too late to learn as long as you're learning something you're interested in. Period.
For me it was machine learning, which I started to study in 2016 (at age 43), despite having skipped math at Uni. But it was a lot of fun to learn!

Also, in my experience, you won't pick up a language by doing something unspecific. If you want to learn Rust, start a specific project which lies on the border of what you know; let's say - a HTTP proxy, preferable with some feature that you think is missing. You'll very likely fail to produce something more useful than what's out there already, but you'll learn more than what would by following tutorials.

Whether you should be pursuing an actual degree depends a lot on where you are and want to go -- but keep in mind that getting a degree is more than just taking the classes (learning environment, classmates, etc.). So, if you're primarily doing online classes alone, you might have a harder time than if you we're in a more typical university setting. So, find somebody in the same situation to use as a workout buddy!

HTH!
With a vegan diet, you need vitamin B12 supplements.

From the linked article:

> Overall, multivitamins are not recommended for the generally healthy. There’s just no clear evidence to prove that they have any benefit. A 2013 analysis of 27 trials involving more than 400,000 people concluded that there was no clear evidence that they reduce cardiovascular disease, cancer risks, or reduce all-cause mortality.

This makes no sense.

You have a vegan diet to reduce cardiovascular disease, cancer risks, or reduce all-cause mortality.

You take vitamin supplements to prevent potential deficiencies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1Ca6SsKfE

http://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19562864/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/27886704/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21139125/

The need for vitamins and essential fatty acids is scientifically proven.

Better safe than sorry. Multi-vitamin supplements are cheap enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_fatty_acid
Look at Ketamine...just make some trivial change with no impact to the active part of the chemical and you can patent it.
Thanks for sharing your personal experiences, especially your history of depression. It’s not something that most people are willing to speak about because of the social stigmas associated.

The cynic in me thinks that society needs to reward honesty and/or disincentivize dishonesty instead of relying on personal ethics for most matters though.
As a counterpoint: Aesthetics matter to a non-trivial percentage of computer users. I love the iMac’s design and it was a pretty big selling point to me and differentiated the model from the other available desktops. I use an arm-style mount and couldnt be happier with the overall lack of wires and thin aesthetics.
There are lots of places like this in the rural south and midwest. Seen plenty first hand.
A lot of companies do. I've actually found it's pretty difficult to get mobile apps deployed inside bigger companies WITHOUT delivering a custom build that enterprise IT rolls out on their own, even on iOS.
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Also note AWS Windows is not plain vanilla. It comes with an x64 Python 2.7 build built in, and the x64 python27.dll is on the standard path. Bit of a gotcha if you're deploying x86 Python 2.7 to AWS Windows!
They will sell you a brand new macbook air with 128gb of storage that you can't upgrade. I can't even back up my phone with that. They literally don't care at all.
I emailed you. For everyone else, here’s a rough article I’m writing on reading code for my Notes to a Young Software Engineer series:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5mtxxk6bswkag6/Read%20Code.pdf?dl...

https://www.nemil.com/on-software-engineering/index.html

(The article has a few great HN threads on reading code; after all, there are lots of contexts where you need to read without working someone in person who’s been involved in that code)
I understand your concern and I'm no fan of terrorist propaganda of any sort, but if you think that hiding some content from the public Internet will prevent these events, you're dreaming. The Columbine shooters weren't "radicalized" by public websites, to our best knowledge. Nor was the perpetrator of the 2012 movie-theater shooting in Colorado.
I would assume ABET certified programs would have certain standards or requirements regarding he schools’ curriculums.
Yes, but to some not yet seduced by Lisp, it reads like Bernie Saunders just texted "GET OFF MY LAWN!"
Someone usually comes in at that point in the debate with "but my freedom" and "if others are stupid, ain't my problem".
I just remap Caps Lock to escape. You can do it now in the vanilla MacOS settings.
Ah, I allways wondered about that as being stupid well, now with that institution as the cause, it makes sense.
Students from U.S. educational system are doing beter in an

>exam that was developed by the U.S. Educational Testing Service

Who could have guessed that?
Xanax is one. Many anti depressants can have severe withdrawal effects as well, though I suppose that is more indicative of dependency rather than addiction.
It would be waaaay easier to put additional detector 90 degrees away on the surface of the Earth than it would be to drill 4km into the ground (and service mirrors there!).
Under "Data Collected by Google Analytics":

> Where customers use Google Analytics Advertising Features, Google advertising cookies are collected and used to enable features like Remarketing on the Google Display Network.

If you just use GA on a site, without ads, none of the data is funneled into Ad targeting for the user.
I don't think so. I'm specifically referring to India, which is all English. All education in India happens in English - it is our primary official language.

I think the difference is in the teachers. This difference is most likely originating because of the education given in univs by good professors.

Everyone has access to the online courses/MOOC
Exactly this. Because CSR scam artists can’t extort brands with a campaign to regulate fishing nets. #StopStopSucking
If that person specializes in very early company stages, getting some knowledgeable team and funding, then moving on when all pieces are in place, it might be a valid strategy. How many investors have any clue about quantum computing or are even capable of understanding anything beyond simple examples/hype in order to finance it? The business world's level of technical expertise is really low even with informed investors and buffoonery about anything is rampant.
My assumption is that they were building for MSSQL Server first, where AD/Windows Authentication is still the most popular authentication scheme.
The imageboards are ephemeral and probably expired before Facebook took the video down. Child exploitation is regularly reported and removed promptly from the imageboards.
I wonder how was the Wayland support improved. I'm running Firefox 65 with GTK_BACKEND=wayland and it works quite well but there are still some minor issues where and there.
Sale every whale on earth to a private firm that has ownership over the whales, this will solve this problem immediately and once and for all.