skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweden adopted the voucher system in 1992, not fifteen years ago.

There is evidence that the outcome was an improvement:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130512223637/http://www.ifau.s...

Of course, there's a political debate attached to it and you will find a lot of people to frame it all differently, but the facts are clear: The private schools are superior.

https://tino.us/2011/03/on-the-swedish-voucher-system/

Sinking PISA scores in the last years is probably best explained by a lowering of standards to accommodate, among other things, for a surging population of newly-arrived immigrants.
Yeah it's a pretty self-absorbed thing to do (and say).

Like, there's no harm if the outcome is mutually beneficial... but you just have to know deep down that posting one picture of a beach out front of a resort for your 2,000 followers to see is not going to generate a worthwhile amount of interest in the resort in reality... But I think most "influencers" are completely deluded anyways, so maybe they really do believe that posting a couple vacation photos is of equivalent worth to the vacation itself...

It's like people who approach photographers and request that they work for free to "build their portfolio".
> Any judge worth their salt will rubber-stamp a search warrant for Bob Joe, with a justification of: "Officer Harry had a 'hunch' that Bob Joe may be a criminal of some kind."

Is this based off of personal experience? I do have some experience with dealing with judges, and that has not been my observation, at least not as a hard and fast rule.

> The purpose of the warrant process is to make sure that law enforcement is targeted.

Partially, but the other side of it is that it's to make sure that the search activity is, well, warranted.
Ask HN: Did Chrome reset your default search engine?
The communications which people are talking about are those which were seen by the world, which is quite beyond anyone's "home", and the public having commentary about it is a kind of natural reciprocation. "It should go not further" (than the home?) is a little odd when things are being hashed out in front of an audience of thousands.
The Myth of Mummy Wheat (2017)
email the authors. the authors own the rights, and the money you pay for access never hits their pockets anyway. they're usually happy to share a pdf if you're polite.
A New Alternative to CFGs and Pegs, with Code for Pharo Smalltalk
Any challenges raising the round given the team is distributed?

Congrats for the raise!
Yes, thanks for the reference
I applaud your effort, but unfortunately agree with GP. The methaphor really does not work
Note to self: eventual consistency good for web/mobile apps, bad for avionics.
I think a lot of people find the word "influencer" to be, for the most part, aspirational puffery, especially if preceded by "self-described."

But the actual phenomenon is really very interesting.

Brands used to primarily rely on in-house marketing teams or external marketing agencies, who might try to get their products in the hands of people with strong platforms, aka the ability to market to lots of people by virtue of their fame, reach, etc.

Now you have a lot of what might be called freelance lifestyle marketers. They're like a copy of InStyle magazine, where the editorial content is themselves and the lux life they (purportedly) lead, and the advertising content is the products they market.

I think a lot of the consternation about social media influencers is because it's a new marketing avenue with fairly little gatekeeping. Someone with 4,000 Instagram followers and someone with 4 million Instagram followers might both present themselves as influencers, and it's hard to tell who's legit.

It's especially hard for smaller businesses, such as an independent hotel or bar, because who has the time to research all of these claims?

What I think we're already starting to see is that some of the people with the largest followings, who legitimately can be called influencers, are being approached by agencies who represent them, because then the agencies are doing the gatekeeping.
I absolutely agree with you there. In the meantime, adding additional descriptors yields better results but is maybe a bit un-intuitive to some users (e.g. "thrush bird" rather than "thrush").
I love the fact Heroku have open-sourced their buildpacks. Dokku takes great use of these and provides a very similar platform to themselves that you can host yourself (DigitalOcean even provide a base-image that will pre-configure Dokku for you). Great for personal websites and the like.

If you want to scale in a pinch then it's a case of making some tiny tweaks and pushing to Heroku instead.
I am probably similarly placed - but I am also going to be able to afford to renew things. I'm wondering whether the 99% will be incentivised enough though.
Usually there is a little bit more to it: the human-written spec (the mathematical description of the algorithm) is itself written in a format that can be validated. After the spec has been validated (i.e. finding a mathematical proof that the "platonic" version of the algorithm is "correct"), only then you do the second round of validation that confirms that the algorithm implementation is indeed equivalent to the platonic version of the algorithm.

It is validators all the way down. And at the very bottom there is a base piece of theorem-proving software that is only a few hundred lines of code that has been validated only by humans and self tests.
12,000 is not a lot. My Instagram account for my dogs have 1,000 and I only post occasionally. That said, it didn't take much before some small vendors reached out to me about doing some small promotion like "here's a free leash, take a picture of your dogs with the leash". I don't know what level it takes for hotel stays but 12,000 is really low compared to even moderately popular Instagram accounts.
Pretty much the only advantage LT ever had over Emacs was the GUI layer unburdened by decades of development and compatibility with TTYs. In other words, the hope for LT was that it will allow a wide range of scriptable graphical effects. While never explicitly stated, if you read early posts on LT you'll see its feature list is basically 80% Emacs, 10% Smalltalk and 10% eye-candy.

Many (five?) years later, from what I gather, LT has the eye-candy - the rest is perpetually "under construction". It would be hard for it to be anything else, though, as the main developers jumped ship a few years back to work on Eve (which, as a karmic retribution for all my crushed hopes for LT, also tanked and died recently).

Emacs may be less pretty than newer editors, and lots of its APIs are decades old at this point, but it's still the only self-documenting, easily discoverable and extensible editor this side of Pharo and Squeak, which can be used in practice (due to a giant amount of plugins which bring it up to modern standards) for almost any task.

TLDR: LightTable as a powerful editor for programmers is dead - it may be still possible to revive it, but its scope would have to be massively scaled down. It's not going to compete with Emacs & co. anymore, which is a shame, because when it started it had the potential for this.
"Millions of Facebook Records Found on Amazon Cloud Servers" was the original headline.

That headline the first thing you would likely think is Facebook was using AWS and left some data open somewhere.
It 100% implied Facebook was doing more wrong now, instead of the companies that already had the data from the previous issues were not handling the data correctly.

Yes this news is still notable. But the headline gave the wrong impression and was banking on the already bad attitude towards Facebook.
It really is, these people could also threaten to use their influence to smear places as well. So small business owners may feel the need to kowtow to the influencers' demands. Very much akin to: "Oh! You're the duke's nephew? Dinner is on the house, of course!"
I am outside the US as well :).
"The logic in what [you] say" is part of it. Your humanity does, too.

"That hurts me and you should stop" need not be "logical" to be deserving of respect.
Enough with the paternalism. Let me use my data as I see fit. It's mine. Not yours. Stop putting limits on it.

If I want to trade my information for money I should be allowed to.

The problem with you guys is not that your ultimate goal isn't data ownership. The problem with you is that your ultimate goal is that you own and control everyone's data. You want to make the rules as to what they can do with it.
Seems like you've never listened to / watched / read things from News Corp. They globally set an agenda. If you are a minority, it is a very hurtful agenda. It has happened for decades.
Facebook knows regulation in coming and is transitioning from being anti-regulation to regulation on their terms (ie. regulatory capture). Unfortunately, I don't have much faith in our government to properly regulate technology, for one Congress seems totally unaware of how Facebook works ("Senator... we sell ads") and judging by the diasaters that were the great recession and the Boeing crashes, even a well known "strong" regulator isn't enough to curtail the biggest companies
Alternative title: Why does software development suck so much in _______?
Electric Cars Hit Record in Norway
Symbolic Regression, Genetic Programming or If Kepler Had R
This other HN submission has some interesting hypotheticals on why the system might have been reactivated multiple times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19565056
Without getting explicit, there's plenty of historical evidence behind that statement. Evidence that spawned the idea of freedom of speech in general, and evidence later in history that inspired the Martin Niemöller poem First they came ... It is a common refrain, not just by the "help-I'm-being-censored community", but by those who are well versed in history.

It should also be noted that, while Ghomeshi may have been well liked initially, he was not so well liked by the time he was "silenced", so the statement still holds true IMO.
If you think present financial systems are working well for every inhabitant on the planet, you probably spend a lot of time in a very comfortable bubble.

Besides, talking worked well for thousands of years, what use would humanity have for the Internet? /s
The top comments on that thread discuss the importance of owning your email address by way of using a custom domain, so you can move to a new providers and not worry about losing contacts or missing emails. I fully agree with that.

Back in 2014, both Outlook and Gmail had free family plans with custom domain capability, but have since removed those options. Is there a good low-cost option for custom domain email in 2019? For people who use and rely on email a lot, Fastmail is definitely the best option, but it is too expensive for my use case. I would like to set up custom domains for my family (5-10 people in total) and I would like to know what is the cost-effective best practice to do so these days.
The headwinds mentioned should also include NIMBY. If you've ever driven through western Minnesota and the turbine forest that is out there, you'll realize there there is the potential for serious blowback if onshore turbine installation gets more widespread.

I just hope that less intrusive alternatives become more prevalent before that blowback causes a price increase that makes fossil fuels look good again.
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Not sure, but that might be subject to some kind of anti-cartel regulation? But if there are 3 top gaming publications, and only one of them refused to review Apple-only games, then I don't think intervention is justified.
When philosophers sit down and ask themselves, "How do I think?", they invariably end up concluding that consciousness is an internal monologue. A monologue is one of the many capabilities of the mind, but it's highly overrepresented in philosophical writings because the subject is himself trying to formulate the answer in words while doing it.

If instead you developed your theory of the mind while observing people performing tasks, you might see occasional evidence of inner monologue but it wouldn't be the dominant paradigm.
How are you arguing in favour of being able to publically insult someone on a mailing list, but also saying “offence is taken not given?”

If you think offence is only taken, you would reject the idea that your words are polite or offensive. Instead you accept that some choice of words is offensive, argue that it’s right to be offensive in some situations, then try to disclaim that by saying “you shouldn’t be offended, I wouldn’t be because i have a tough skin”.

If offence is only taken, not given, you wouldn’t need a tough skin because there wouldn’t be anything to bounce off it.
You're missing the point entirely. The money is in affiliate marketing. Show off in bikinis/makeup and link to buy them. Every time someone buys you're earning a small percentage of the sale. It adds up very quickly.

General rule is at least 1/1000th of viewers are buyers. A youtube videos with hundreds of thousands of views have sold hundreds bikinis.

Companies may give you a product to show off for free or even pay you, but that doesn't make money like selling it.
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I am sorry things aren't going well for you. I am 27 and still feel like that in most jobs. I've learn to leave with it. What has helped me the most has been focusing in work at work and then pick up a hobby. Try anything, even things that you didn't know you were interested in. I suck at sports but I am trying Crossfit and is helping me in self confidence and as an exersice. At work I used to eat at my desk and try to "complete" what I will be working on. But what has helped is to take a break and go to the lunch-room and try to eat with someone or go out with your team mates when possible. I am an introbert and this things have made a big difference for me.
Also I know life is challenging but I would recommend to practice being grateful with what you already have and where you are at. Life will get better and somethings worse, but try to stay positive and grateful.
The Darien Scheme
Let's not forget the Outlook web team who pretty much started the whole ajax/web2.0 thing in the first place with IXMLHttpRequest.
> There are real people in the real world that will get offended if you say "hey guys" after all.

I don't want to say that I don't believe these people exist (because I'm sure they do), but rather I don't think their presence is something you need to be overly concerned with because I think there are so shockingly few of them that it really isn't overly consequential. I think their existence is overhyped by people on the internet, because I've never met anyone in my life who has brought this up in the real world.

Just handle things like that on a case-by-case basis. If all the people you interact with don't care... then you probably don't need to worry about it. But if there's someone who says "Hey, I don't like it when you say that", then perhaps take their opinion under consideration and determine what you want to do about it.

The notion that you need to constantly be on guard about everything you say is completely absurd, unless you're a raging asshole whose comments regularly spark resentment in your conversational counterparts.
Or a home natural gas turbine that also runs your heat pump compressor. And condenses the steam for high efficiency.
What we have right now is not shaming, it's bullying. Boycotting a movie because the director cheated on his wife is no different than beating a classmate because his mother is fat.

I can only hope we'll eventually outgrow it.
> it re-enabled itself

No, the possibility that it reenabled itself is being investigated, but there's no reason to conclude that yet.
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Why play a video game if you just want to watch a movie?
The first thing to keep in mind is that it takes a long time – thousands upon thousands of hours. I think the best way to utilize those hours is to spend them building real applications, and to always be pushing your comfort zone in some way. That could be by utilizing a new piece of infrastructure, working in a new language, or working on a new problem space that's very challenging to you. Make sure to seek jobs that enable you to consistently push your comfort zone like that! If you keep doing that, after many years you'll become a very strong programmer.
Ask HN: Was GitHub Hacked or Me?
http://confidencetoexplore.com/

That's my page. My other github pages are working fine, but that one redirects to a crazy screen with a lighting strike gif, an email address, and something about "muslim cybersecurity".

I changed the A records to put up a parking lot page and that worked, so I think it's something around github. As soon as I add the A records and CNAME records back to point to github, the hacked page goes back up.

How do I fix this?
Very good point — apparently some people include #ad to make it seem like they do sponsored posts, even when they're not being paid. But to a potential advertiser, it seems like they have a track record as a paid influencer.
The inside of a Spam Operation
Thanks! I'm definitely an Arduino padawan, so it was important for me to write down what I learned, messed up, and still want to figure out. It just feels good to be combining code with physical hardware, even if its just a tiny little LED. I'm also reading CODE by Charles Petzold at the same time and each chapter is blowing my mind (while requiring several re-reads). Oh, and I'm watching Halt and Catch Fire. So, I'm firing on a lot of hardware cylinders right now.
What Happened When I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory
Well, a strong track record was enough to get me to toss $10 into the Light Table kickstarter, hopefully it will also be enough for you to find developers willing to dedicate a couple years of their lives.
This is an occasional problem I've had on multiple platforms (Android/Windows OS, browser UI, ZoneAlarm way back when, etc). Why is it not yet a thing to ignore the first click within 50-100ms or so of a dialog popping up? Especially on desktop where you can find out if the cursor was already in place before the pop-up showed.
It's not a case of buildpacks vs dockerfiles. They both solve different problems with different solutions.

Buildpacks fit nicely into the heroku way of doing things. But at any medium to large sized engineering organization, there's no way they could satisfy the requirements for even a simple majority of services that using a Dockerfile provides.
Of course this tells me about the state of the variant. And it's the same invariant the author uses but with the equation balanced differently.

The author's invariant is
Sum = 1+2+..I
Mine is
Sum+(I+1)+...+X = 1+2+..I+(I+1)+...+X

That's both fine and tells us about I. I think the version that contains the value we want to obtain is easier to prove correctness for.
I only had one investor who even raised that as a concern, and he still offered to invest. What I was more worried about was raising as a solo founder, but that didn't turn out to be an issue.
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I find it sad that a post like this about the "early Internet" is really about websites. The web is, of course, not actually the "early Internet".
You're right, but the comment you replied to covers that:

> This has been confirmed by fallible tools and is checked against human-made models which are also fallible, but this code is still likely to be about as close to bug-free as currently possible.
Europeans also need to understand that A/C does not make you ill.
I think it's to garner support for the kickstarter linked on the page.
That would indeed work, however given that one app can have ~20 nested apps at the first level, this might become tricky to manage. There's a lot to be said to having a directory with ~5 files in it that is all you need to keep in your head for a feature.
Of course, people usually understand they're renting stuff on services like Netflix and Spotify.

Though even then, it still raises one issue. Namely, how it seems basically every company now has realised that they get more money/power by endlessly renting things rather than selling them to the customer. Feels like ownership is being quickly killed off.
Agree with all of this, except that float still has a place. when you want text to flow around an element, float is great. I'm so glad that we don't need it for layout anymore, and I'm sure that's probably what you meant.
In many ways the Church was the old institution of moral power- an attack on reputation could be mitigated through confession and repentance, with the confessor acting as a judge would for the State.

Of course once the Church had its own reputation crisis it started to crumble from the top, and nothing has really taken its place.
A lot of resorts will let instafluencers stay for free during the off-season to drum up additional publicity. From a business perspective, if the room isn't otherwise booked to a paying guest, the marginal cost of letting an instafluencer stay there gratis is almost nil. (They usually require the instafluencer to pay their own way to/from.)
You can ask them to delete it.

If you tell me a story and I sing you a song in exchange, neither of us can "take back" the thing we did for bad service. But we've bartered (and hence paid for the experience). That's just life. You can't take away an experience.

So you can take away the data but you can't take away the fact that they had the data.
Unfortunately for EV, they make the least sense for those who drive the most. When you drive 3 miles a day even a 12 mpg gas guzzler doesn't cost much (why they don't bike is a good question, but off topic). When you drive 600 miles a day EVs would make the most sense - but they don't recharge fast enough (fast recharge is not only longer than adding fuel, it also damages the battery and so isn't a normal solution)
This. You nailed it
There was an article a few months back that described hotels and resorts getting inundated by "influencers" requesting free stays.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/insta...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17330732
Alright, thanks for sharing your situation! (hope that's the right word)
Must have social media tools for business owners and marketers(ROI and200%)
I did something like this when I got an electric mattress pad.
Other than electronic components (where the rules for electronic recycling apply) photovoltaic cells are basically sand.

Also I would assume that the electronics in panels are RoHS compliant, which means no lead there.
> Glad I didn't pick up Boeing shares on the cheap just yet.

Unfortunately, it's a focus on profits over people that likely led to these disasters. I don't know how you can stop or dissuade from people making a buck off of a tragedy, but it might be worth putting our attention on the human element of this mess. Something about merging this safety issue with an opportunity to "buy low" and make some cash just doesn't sit right.
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I swear, every HN article, you get 10% of the comments are about the article being discussed, and the other 90% are people quibbling over the headline.

Ok, that's an exaggeration.

And when the comments are good, they are really good. Makes the entire HN experience worthwhile.