skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, when we talk to some of the kids coming to Repl.it from Scratch they often say something along the lines of Scratch is an "adult's idea of what kids might like". I think some kids want to feel like hackers and like they're doing "the real thing."

I teach a low-impact, almost impossible to fail programming elective to HS students. We start with a fork of Scratch, and we eventually move to Python. The above is generally the response of my students as well. Scratch is a nice, gentle introduction, but then it becomes more tedious clicking through categories, dragging-and-dropping, and maintaining an organized environment with larger assignments. I'm inclined to agree. Also transferring concepts from Scratch to a terminal language doesn't click for most students. I'm still working on bettering my lesson plans in that aspect.

I do want to counter with something positive about these visual implementations though. I think boot strapping the course would be 10 times harder with just a terminal language.
And, while Japanese rail service in general is pretty much as good as anyplace in the world, the Shinkansen is not inexpensive. It's nonetheless popular because HSR is a good match for the distances between a number of populous cities.
I was able to purchase a pair.
Just change "Font"="Consolas" to what you feel like in the .reg file?
Thanks for the ascimath reference. Do you know of any similar technologies for writing equations in a simpler and more readable form than latex?

I've never seen ascimath before but I wish I had because I think I partially reinvented the wheel. I wrote some extensions to Pandoc (and an associated emacs major-mode) for scientific note-taking, with a main portion being a "simplified latex" for writing equations in a more readable way. The key features of simplified latex format are matlab-style matrices, UTF8 support, easy exponents, and better formatting (e.g. functions automatically use roman instead of italics). There are still a few edge cases mine doesn't catch, but I'm in the process of rewriting it in Haskell and rewrite is more stable.

https://code.launchpad.net/~mwshinn/+junk/notes3

or for documentation:

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mwshinn/+junk/notes3/view/head...
5.6 is officially unsupported but did actually get a security patch in January, with the possibility of further updates if warranted[1]

[1]http://php.net/archive/2019.php#id2019-01-10-4
You can make a SPAD array? I've had some ideas that need that. Say more?
The LD50 for cannabinoids is approximately your own weight. At least in the monkeys and rats studied, because there has never been a documented human overdose and proper studies are both unethical and (in the US) illegal.
I agree that it doesn't look particularly good. The question is whether it's due to a lack of polygons.
It's hard to look at it in a way that doesn't seem like Google/Gmail is highly involved: https://ifttt.com/gmail
Look up prescription surveillance, prescription drug monitoring programs, and the companies that sell prescription data to see how “private” your private prescription info is.
Except go (and all other well defined games) are the most trivial of domains. For real business problems, the difficulty is most often trying to determine what the problem is and how it relates to the rest of the world.
I don't mind Google or Facebook showing ads in their own products, because that's the only business model that works at their scale and for what their offer. Imagine the world, in which the access to the most advanced search engine or social network was only available to the people who can afford to pay for it.

But I don't support using ad networks in the products that are not big enough to sell them themselves. Firstly, because it makes those products completely dependent on third-parties for their own existence. And secondly, because these products often become proxies for third-party user tracking.

Just let me pay for your product, if I like it enough. Otherwise, I will just rely on Blokada[1] to protect me from your unwillingness to find a sustainable business model.

[1] https://blokada.org/
That’s a very important point. Most of us will have a tendency to focus on the tech work but the real key to success is to always network and making connections. Also learn how to talk to C level execs because in the end they have control over the budgets and that’s where the money is. Also learn how to present your work. Doing a good job by itself is not worth much if nobody knows about it.
Yeah it'll improve things. To a first approximation a 100 m^2 apartment in the center costs 500k. If you've got 4 floors of that it's a total cost of 2 million.

Once you can build higher the costs diminish since most of the cost is opportunity cost of the parcel of land it's sitting on, not the building itself. A real rise in supply will counteract rising prices. You can build 8x 100m^2 apartments for way less than 8 million.

> Take the old Bijlmer flats, for example.

Yeah exactly my point. Some centrally planned NIMBY high-rise project that had to be put in Zuidoost because of restrictive zoning policy, of course it was a disaster.

It's also can't be compared to what a re-development of the Centrum would look like. The population density is probably no more than two or single story apartment units. They're huge tower blocks surrounded by large parks[1]. I'm talking about re-development within the A10.

> But that "look" of the inner city is a big part of the appeal of Amsterdam.

Something has to give. If your definition of the "look" is "exactly the way it is now" then yeah, we can't change anything and we'll continue to have a housing bubble, and probably long-term Amsterdam becoming a backwater as jobs & development moves to somewhere like Rotterdam.

I'm not talking about demolishing the historic Prinsengracht and dropping something that looks like the (Soviet-style) Bijlmer tower block on top of the resulting rubble.

There's lots of places in the city where the houses don't have much historic value, e.g. here on De Wittenkade: https://goo.gl/maps/BzTLyvHGUvr

It's now illegal to change any minor detail of how those houses on the left look like (just replacing a window needs to have council involvement).

We could build something in the same style, except 6 stories instead of 4. Or (more cheaply) build something in the same style as the right side of that canal, but up to a 6+ story height. Neither would fundamentally change the look of the city, but would help a lot with the housing supply. Both are illegal.

I'm arguing against my own best interests. I own a house in the Centrum that's ballooning in price due to the municipal policy. Would some part of me like to live in a time capsule? Sure. But I think the interests of current and future residents matter more than NIMBY concerns.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gooiord,_Bijlmer.jpg
I've downvoted this comment because I believe it's very misguided. The reason that there is so much focus on getting women into STEM subjects is in an attempt to counter the huge biases against them, in education, the workplace, the economy, and life in general. It has been shown time and time again that women tend to need to be far more capable to achieve the same as men, whether that's in job applications, hiring, STEM subjects, or running for political office.

I respectfully suggest that you look into this more, and do so from sources that are experts in this, rather than from people in privileged positions who have self-interest in retaining that privilege.
Different billing schemes are appropriate for different projects and clients.

"Time and materials" billing is totally appropriate if the two parties trust each other and the nature of the project is open-ended or loose about the deliverable.
Then why not simply say that, instead of a snide sideways comment?

I mean, there's enough of the trope about the "Daily Fail" where the corresponding sarcasm would be "since they wrote about it, I no longer believe food exists." So, just be clear and say what you mean about The Guardian.

But instead of expressing your blanket dismissal, you imply that one (or a small number) of failures causes you to be deeply distrustful of everything they publish - even for an article which gives enough citations that you can double-check them yourself.

Thus, your comment came across not as honest criticism, but as someone with a poor ability to judge veracity.
I think a lot of the “hard working” stereotyoe of Asians in America (mostly Chinese and Koreans) come from the fact they are immigrants and start from the bottom once they get here.
> why does a banner need to be anything more than an image?

Because of exactly situations like this! Say you're an advertiser and you make an image banner. You make a deal with an ad network to show your ad on some pages. Some site makes a deal with the same ad network to show ads on its pages. Your ad is on the publisher page, users are seeing it, everything is good.

Now a scummy publisher signs up with this ad network, and sets the ads to display underneath something else. If the ads are just simple images and nothing more, there isn't a way for the advertiser or the ad network to tell that they're being scammed.

(Disclosure: I work at Google on making ads declarative so they don't get to do this sort of thing. Speaking for myself and not the company.)
> 7 years for something that would have probably gotten him 6-12 months in Europe/Canada.

Perhaps but in most states, since this would be a state crime, he'd only spend a small fraction of that time actually in prison.
one of the coolest things about mastodon and pleroma is that you can just start your own instance and immediately federate with the rest of the network.

this means that if youre unhappy with the moderation in a community, if you want to own your own data/privacy, or if you want to use self-hosted software, you can just do that with mastodon.

a few weeks back i went through a pleroma guide and set up my own pleroma instance. it only took a few hours, and it has been running for over a month on a $5 Linode (1 GB RAM). i migrated from mastodon.social, and it carried over everyone i was following seamlessly.

i get that the whole decentralized thing has been blown out of proportion in the past, but in the fediverse (mastodon, pleroma, GNU social, etc) it is working quite well.
> I'm just grateful for having a government that has my back

Oh sweet summer child...

They will chase away all these "predatory" corporations, and then you are left with staggering numbers of youth unemployment. It's been on average what now, in the range of 20-25% for years now? In some member countries north of 40% like my native land.

If anything the EU should be relaxing regulations to encourage more business growth. There are simply not enough jobs.
Healthcare, higher education, and corrections have the strongest public policy involvement and are also the most dysfunctional; that is not incompatible with the ideology at all. You could say it’s a self fulfilling prophecy or a deliberate conspiracy to undermine trust in public institutions (this is more or less openly acknowledged in “starve the beast”) but it’s not a contradiction.
It took 6 minutes to compile a 47-line Fortran program.
That illustrates the difference between a company that sees data as a function vs as a core strategy. Stitch Fix is definitely the latter.
Loved my Voodoo card!
Interesting. I always assumed that the energies involved in major earthquakes were far too large for us to affect them in any way.

If we can cause them, I wonder, will we be able to prevent the natural ones as our knowledge increases?
Phone Numbers Stink as Identity Proof
In a CS program, you learn a lot about algorithmic efficiency and theory, but you don't learn a lot about software construction. Here's my list of must read software books related to this:

Clean Coder by Uncle Bob Martin

Clean Code by Uncle Bob Martin

Refactoring by Martin Fowler

Design Patterns by the gang of four
I don't think checked exceptions have many defenders left... even among their original proponents. And no language (at least no significant one) really copied Java in this regard, as far as I'm aware.

I can't speak for Kotlin users en masse, but personally I don't miss checked exceptions one bit, same as I didn't miss them in C#. And I've never encountered the practice of "dropping back to Java" for checked exceptions of all the reasons.

A compelling way of emulating the presumed benefits - without the bad parts - in Kotlin would be to go sort of functional and use a Try return type from Arrow-Kt: https://arrow-kt.io/docs/arrow/core/try/
I wonder how well it works on people who have a skin color closer to their hair color.
If you drive in a "bad neighborhood" they could penalize you there, which has very real potential to be racially discriminative. And this data could be given to police, who could use it to make a case against you just for appearing to drive in a similar pattern as a criminal. Giving companies this data is dangerous.
California had best take heed: The Geysers and Salton Trough have taken way more heat out of the Earth, and I would argue delayed, shifted, and intensified the big one the Hayward Fault is overdue for.

There's been a great deal of ridicule placed on opponents of geothermal energy, saying that geothermal could never contribute to an earthquake. I'm hopeful the ridicule will start to go away now.
And then we have the leadpipes still in use. Better check if your house has new pipes or still using the lead pipes.

https://apps.npr.org/find-lead-pipes-in-your-home/en/#pipe-e...
I do find it interesting that probably many of these people would not commit crime if they were paid $50k per year to not commit crime (which would save money!). Unfortunately you could never do this as an actual policy because of the incentives, it's just interesting that they end up forcing us to spend so much money so unproductively.

I absolutely believe that there is room for something innovative to be done here, but I don't think it has anything to do with incarceration.
Just check (3/22/19) and yup sure enough https://i.imgur.com/6SMBjDa.png . I find this is pretty common with many software websites that have ads, I'm really surprised paint.net doesn't switch to carbon or something.

EDIT: There's another one at the bottom of the page too. And they're randomized, some make it clear you aren't downloading Paint.net (such as the "Free Mac PDF Reader") but others aren't at all.
is there any project that sould convert coq proofs into another language than ML, even if that means making a few assumptions or using only a subset of the target language ?
How do I get to play this again? Was my favorite FPS game of all time.
there's not that much OS dependence on chips unless you want to build it on segments and/or capabilities...there are viable ways to fake those. maybe if there were a novel form of parallelism?

i agree with you that we can do better, but as other people have commented, that wound is pretty much healed over.

integrated distributed management, process migration, and radically simplified OS state might put some devops people out of a job..but the industry doesnt like to take hops that large. the configuration and deployment hodgepodge is 'good enough'

did you have some specific ideas you think would be interested enough to drive adoption?
I hate Java. It wasn't the first language I learned, but it wasn't the 2nd or 3rd either, so I don't think it's just inexperience. It feels like everything takes 3 times as long in C# as Javascript (though I understand AND appreciate why). It feels like Java takes 10x the time, and I DONT understand why. Everything seems overly convoluted. Even recent features like streams.
Thanks -- I can email your support account, but #3 at first was CORS, then it became CORB when I got the ports working (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/serv...)
I mentioned in the 1000pcs bottle for price comparison purposes.

Buy a 1000 pcs bottle, split up with 10 friends who get 100pcs each, split up the costs, save 4€ out of 6€ per person.
If your reference is "several years back", I can assure you there are many many improvements :). Push-and-shove routing and hw-accelerated display are just two.
This is a purely political decision.

The current government, which ousted the former goverment with absurd scandals, is under a huge bribery and corruption scandal which includes kpop stars, police and prosecutors alike.

The current government always tried to shift the media’s attention when they were in trouble with former government’s incidents and this is one of them.

The government is actually trying to indict former government’s staff and let them take all the media’s blame, while they clean up their own bribery scandal.
> Does the US really have harsh drug laws compared to other countries?

Depends on your race. The USA has the second-highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world, and a large proportion of those currently or formerly incarcerated are black men facing time for simple cannabis posession. Not a problem if you're a white male who went to a good school and "knows this guy," and has time to post on HN.
I personally find the idea of basic income very interesting (I'm not yet confident it will work in real life though), but that's probably an off-topic for this thread.

Back to your point though: isn't it ironical then that pretty much the only place where a person is not "forced" to work is prison? How's that ever fair?
In general, ads get to run arbitrary javascript. This is terrible, because once you open the door to a programming language people can pull in anything. Automated and manual review can help, but it's hard to stop technically.

I'm currently working on making ads declarative [1] so they don't get to do this anymore.

[1] Specifically, AMP Inabox, which is AMP ads on non-AMP pages: https://www.ampproject.org/docs/ads/amphtml_ads
Would this be the first nation to denounce fracking?
There's no question the crew made serious mistakes that led to the stall and subsequent crash in the AF 447 case. Yet you could argue Airbus and AF did not sufficiently highlight this case to ensure adequate training to ensure a proper response. Something similar may emerge from the 737Max cases.
A few of my friends have spent some time in jail / prison due to smoking pot and the "three strikes" rule along with it. They were in there ranging from overnight to a few weeks to months.

One developed PTSD from it and has had major issues since he was released 15 years ago. The other one hasn't quite came back mentally either, will not talk about it and is so much worse off now than ever. After he was released, but before his court date where he knew he wasn't going to have to go back, he was contemplating suicide.

They all said they would rather die than ever go back for any significant time. I'm not sure what significant means in that respect, but dying seems to be the general theme they share now.

After working at a jail for a bit, I'm not sure I blame them at all. I like to think I'm mentally strong, but I don't know how long I could do it. I am sure I would have the same mentality they do now after spending time in jail / prison.
I am super excited about this. It may be early, and there may be some hurdles that make it 'not as perfect' as described here, but even we only get, say 60% of the proposed memory encoding schemes, it will be a huge efficiency gain.

Not to mention truly 'permanent' digital data storage. If you stick a piece of paper, a USB flash drive, a BD-R disc all holding the same file (hello world) in a box and stick it in a bank safety deposit box for 100 years, how many of those three will still be readable? We still have the technology to read it, etc. etc.
They are.

Because of the 2011 tohoku earthquake faults near them had received massive force and it caused the earthquake, not some 10,000 tonnes of water they pumped down.
you use fucking shovels as brooms in America? what's wrong with you?
Yeah... Apple won't, but the health tracking apps that you'll be asked to install certainly will - many already share with Facebook, without your consent[1].

You won't be getting that Apple Watch for free.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/22/18236398/facebook-mobile-...
>At various stages of Spotify's life, Facebook login was required to use the service.

I disagree. I have perused various trials for Spotify and other services over the years and never once had to resort to using a Federated ID/login.
Its relative. Punitive justice isnt perfect, but the track record for for more punitive cities seems to be much better than the cities who arent punitive.
Are you using it personally?
I also wrote an article with my Putty settings: http://g14n.info/2014/06/my-putty-settings/
Tag Types in TypeScript with Taghiro
Japan had a big problem with amphetamine use post-WW2. It was freely available and heavily abused. That crack down is still evident today.
Sure you are doing your part, but you should avoid glossing about the fact that it's cheap compared to the US when in fact the real cost is completely hidden to you and is reported to future generations.
The reason for the high cost is not the fact that you can't by a 1000-count bottle -- it is the fact that German pharmacists form a cartel that is protected by laws that they lobby for extensively.

In the UK you also can't buy more than 32 pills of ibuprofen/aspirin/paracetamol at once without prescription -- but the cost is 1-2 cent per pill because every supermarket including ALDI can sell them.
Just had a go at it, and compared with 5.0.1, there are many improvements. To name a few: much quicker rendering when moving things in schematic view, and being able (without hand-editing files) to place things on eg Fab and Courtyard layers when creating a footprint.

Actually scanned through the two lists of bugs fixed (for RC and for release), ca 500+10, and damn have the team been productive!

Thanks!
I use PayPal often, especially when I need to subscribe to a service on the internet that I don't fully trust with my credit card information. PayPal is a great buffer against identity theft.
I still use PayPal frequently because it is more convenient for my client to pay me in USD. And since the banks in my country have poor online transactions implementation, PayPal can really help. But take note,

PayPal will hold your amount for months if you are new to them, because you need “cred” to be able to use their service.
I think it is more that we believe prisoners life has any value at this time. Previously (100s of yeras ago) they were just tossed down a trapdoor together with other people. Perhaps every now and then there would be some food thrown down later on.
Do you have any sources to back this up?
1. Bunch of up-and-forget sites on shared hosts
2. A metric ton of legacy codebases that plain don't work on PHP > 5.5
3. PHP 7 had quite a few breaking changes, like you mentioned
4. Laziness
Been using Blokada since December and it's now a must-have; battery life has improved somewhat as well.

I don't even make heavy use of my phone for social media apps, yet have close to 300K ad-related requests blocked since I installed it.
A eulogy for every product Google has killed (145 and counting)
> If you put ads in your app YOU are responsible.

Take that line of thinking one more step. If a user installs a "free" app that is ad-supported, the USER is responsible.

I tell my kids this when they bitch about needing a new phone because theirs is too slow and the battery drains too fast. I say look at all the crap you installed on it. Clean it up don't be so dumb.
>After controlling for the arrest offense, criminal history, and other prior characteristics, "men receive 63% longer sentences on average than women do," and "[w]omen are…twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted." This gender gap is about six times as large as the racial disparity

https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_g...