skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Sears did this first. About 100 years ago now...

There are still some Sears kit homes out there. They've become mini tourist attractions.
I don’t know what to say..I grew up in India. My mom would wake me up at 4.30, make me a hot beverage and go back to sleep. I would study in the early hours because she believed that early morning is the best time for the mind to absorb and retain what I study.

Go for a brisk walk at 6.00 and leave for school by 7.15-7.30. School was from 8.30-3.30. 8.00-8.30 was morning assembly which was mandatory.

Extra curricular activities like music or dance or outdoor sports till sunset(6.00). My grandmother won’t let me in before 6.00 because she thought that outdoor play was important and in the sun. Freshen up and homework till 8.00. Dinner and then TV time. Reading and to bed by 9.00-9.30.

In high school, less play and more classes. But these tutoring classes were outside. And I would leave by 5.00 to catch the bus to get to them. I was old enough to travel by myself. I loved school. I loved my teachers.

My math tutor from 1989..we keep in touch and she is now teaching me Indian classical music by whatsapp video chat thrice a week. I call her once a year and this year I told her I am joining a neighborhood music group. She made me sing. Entirely disapproved my technique and we started classes immediately.

If my teachers asked me ‘jump’, I would. My school years were the best years of my life. I don’t think I would have had this experience had I grown up in CA in this time and age..and gone to public schools here. Case in point: The public school teachers in my Bay Area city recruit parents and students to strike in their support during their union wage negotiations. It’s a travesty.

I think children should wake up earlier. It’s delightful to wake up before dawn and have a goal. The rest of the day at school becomes easy peasy.
Does this allow for before / after school care at schools to start before 8?
It’s not actually banned. There’s a Winnie the Pooh ride in Shanghai Disneyland.

You can also watch Winnie the Pooh cartoons on Chinese streaming services.
That sounds great, but where is that extra money to pay the teachers going to come from? Propose raising property taxes to cover things like this and a large portion of the people wanting this will suddenly vanish.
The Riot chat app could really use some UI/UX improvements. It's a bit clunky and complicated. Riot is the most popular client that implements matrix protocol which allows people to chat/call and more regardless of the platform they are on. Matrix is similar to how email works (e.g. Hotmail users can talk to other users of hotmail, or users of a different provider), but with the modern features of instant messaging, typing notifications, and message-read indicators (and more). It also has the neat feature that you can create "bridges" to enable platforms that don't support matrix to send/receive stuff to people using matrix.

I think improving the Riot software would be really important because it helps people to communicate freely without being locked into a walled garden. If the UI/UX were improved more it would make it easier to encourage people to try it out.

https://about.riot.im/
You are misinformed about research on homework. Even when you control for socioeconomic status homework has a large positive impact. [This is a nice review of many papers](http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar0...). The only place where homework is questionable is for very young children, like in kindergarten.
While security is being mentioned as one of the strengths, and I certainly agree with that, there was a version of VMS in the late 80s which wouldn't let you create a password if another account already used it. In a small department it wouldn't take more than 15 minutes to hack into someone's account.
Wouldn't employees against this be equally disgruntled?
But the idea that Harvard is still the "best place" for his daughter _is_ symbolic.
You obviously haven't met many homeschooled people.
Twitter isn't applying special restrictions. They're making special exceptions to keep up notable tweets that should otherwise be removed for policy violations.
What symbolism do you see?
Is this a sign they agreed on a deal?
Interview: Tony Flath speaks on the evolution of cloud computing
I actually find the “step-by-step instructions” the least useful part of the nonviolent communication books. I think the most important part of communication, especially in conflicts, is being genuine and authentic, which is very difficult if you’re following some sort of recipe.

I do find NVC extremely helpful as a tool to understand communication and conflicts though. There are many great insights on how conflicts appear and how having an empathic understanding of each other can help resolve them.

I’m not sure whether following the steps outlined by the method helps with that though, especially if a person sees the method as a “turnkey solution” to get other people to “behave” rather than trying to do the introspection of why you are bothered by something and to separate what the other person did from how you feel about it.
"New (1) from $149,591.00", at the bottom of the product summary.
> I'm impressed at the veracity of the marketing machine behind this product.

Did you mean 'tenacity'?
"The report states that Xi Mingzhi was unsatisfied with her life in China after living for several years as a student in the United States."
I dunno what's symbolic about that exactly...
Bold move from Xi, considering that arbitrary detention of random bystanders have been a feature on both sides in this trade war.
When you click "see all buying options" the only one is

> $149,591.00 New + $4.49 shipping

I'm laughing pretty hard at the $4.49 shipping. What it's not on prime at this point? : P
Ouch. Sad anecdote.
She might not be smart enough to get into elite Chinese universities through the admissions exams.
You can’t realistically take a whole city and draw a line down the middle and say “no cars can cross this ever”.
Interesting that there's an 18 character limit. In Australia, with the NPP (equivalent to UK's Faster Payments), your description can be up to 280 characters including, of course, emoji.

Out of curiosity, does Faster Payments allow you to pay to any other identifier (email address, phone number), or only bank account number? More importantly... does it support emoji?
Well, it superficially seems like a simple change, but maybe in fact it wasn't. As evidenced by the fact that Amazon built an empire and they couldn't.

It's like when people say the moon landings were faked because the Van Allen belts would have killed the astronauts. Well, how do we know the radiation isn't lethal? Obviously because people went through to land on the moon!
Kind of unrelated but MUJI has pretty nice clothing, it's minimalist, well priced, and good quality.
Can and do the expats just socialize with each other to mitigate the problem?
When I click 'See all buying options', it says $149,591. You might be looking at the 'Lower Priced Item to Consider' at the top, which is a different product.
Throughout isn’t the biggest advantage, it’s the vastly smaller time slicing allowing far more active connections.
Absolutely! What this allowed to flourish was also an organic eco-system of sites dedicated to customization's followed by the great widget movement and lead to companies like PageFlakes and SplashCast. MySpace was a highly influential driver to the today's internet.
>I don't know the exact cause of this failure, but there are ways to design around unreliable flash too. They could partition it such that the firmware image is in a read-only partition, and it runs out of a ramdisk, with only user settings and log messages stored in a R/W partition. That may be what they're doing, and perhaps the issue is due to the software crashing when the write fails. I'm not sure.

Not in this field so I might be wrong, but I'm guessing they could have also:

* Have redundant storage, failover when the first flash chip dies, and log a fault telling the user to get it looked at. Flash is cheap anyway

* Use removable storage. PCIe, M.2, proprietary, whatever. If it dies then at least you can replace it relatively cheap.

I'm interested in what other problems will surface with Teslas in the next few years. This seems like a huge design failure, I doubt it's the only one.
One should be able to successfully navigate with no in car or mobile navigation.
This is why I am against teaching what is good Art.

Art history, sure. But I was stunted when teachers told me modern art is Art.

I imagine many peers don't understand Art as a result.
Yeah a small Raspberry Pi hosting the website at home is my dream
I'm amazed this is a news article and that people are drawing any kind of political opinions, motivations or messages.
Craftsman has always been rebranded tools. They used to do a good job picking well-made tools, but now they're just cashing in on whatever value is left in the brand.
US House Okays Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act
Kim Jong Un studied in Switzerland and spent most of his youth in the west. It really seems to be peak communism to send your children to study in western countries.
> There is no hard data we know of that proves whether NVC actually improves relationships and resolves conflict

Just like in “Crucial Conversations” this just tries to make empathy formulaic. Formulaic communication techniques come across as dishonest.

A better advice is to be hyper aware of what the other party is trying to convey, whether they are using “violent” or nonviolent way of conveying it, and respond according to whatever each unique situation calls for.
> China should not be able to control society outside of its own walls, yet they have blatantly influenced the behavior of our biggest mass media companies for years.

It’s companies that want access to China that are making these choices. It’s why foreign companies are afraid to deal with Cuba, Venezuela, or Iran.
There are two distinct equators which are not equal: celestial (perpendicular towards the axis of planet's spin) and ecliptic (a circle from planet's sphere on a same plane with orbit from a celestial body). On Earth they differ for 23°44' now (it's changing over time) which is why we have distinct seasons. As default we talk about celestial poles and equator which isn't right for theme of sunlight.

Also the "famous" map is outdated at least by 5 years, Russia has switched from permanent summer time to permanent standard time in 2014. Wikimedia has an version[0] which is somewhat maintained.

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Time_Zones_Map...
You may want to consider the rates of homicide and rape in Mexico before determining that one person's experience of not being hurt is that compelling.
Wow. That is security measure so stupid never heard before. Really :-)))))
In Japan, the difference between formal law and cultural law with respect to their enforcement is often not a distinction worth making (as John Stuart Mill pointed out in On Liberty⁎). Just ask women how interested the police are in dealing with rape or domestic abuse.

Only yesterday I was reading a Reddit thread where someone new to Japan asked whether to inform the police of the apparently violent arguments his neighbours were having and the responses varied from "don't bother, the police won't care" to "make a noise complaint, at least the police will be interested". That's the least scary anecdote I have.

⁎ Probably not about Japan specifically :)
'Voracity' would be my guess
I've seen uncountable articles from reputable news organizations. Is it that people have their head in the sand or think it's just fake news? Because if the people that vote for GOP candidates are OK with this, then they are completely alien to me. Maybe we should split into two nations, one for people who think this is disgusting and one for those who don't.
> It was a coordinated, state-sponsored attack

If this were so, why has no evidence been found after 2 years of desperate searching?

Please stop repeating this entirely unsubstantiated claim.
Book Review: Against the Grain
How is a flash crash a "total disaster"? It seems to me that just describing it that way indicates your mind is addled by technology, since before modern times nobody would expect continuous pricing of everything every millisecond of every day or think that everything was worthless because it wasn't being quoted appropriately for an instant.
Alternatively, modernism represents where Romanticism led us. Forget austere and orderly Classicism and just feel. Modernism made it this far by engaging people viscerally whether they understood a specific message or not.
Yikes! How did you get the gun out of your stomach?
If your family is powerful enough admissions exams don't matter.
"Both" sides doesn't quite reflect the reality here in the context of arbitrary detention.
I'll believe they are doing something useful the day they setup a Burger shack opposite a McDonalds and outcompete on inventory or queuing or something practical. Nobody in industry cares about Rubik's cubes and Go.
You're free to go.

Your stuff (which was partially acquired via exploitation of the ecosystem that is the country that wants those taxes... Bet you drove on a public road) isn't.
e.g. Symbols of driving tanks over students
Children can still wake up early. They're just not forced to PERFORM well early.

You have to understand that not everyone does well in the morning. It's completely unfair to expect everyone to get up and be functioning at the same level in the early morning. That's going to advantage some, and disadvantage others. That's what this is about.

Nothing stops the early bird from getting up early and doing all the things you ascribe to.
Seriously, I thought Amazon was trying to pull a Sears during their heyday when I saw the title.
I agree, I’m seeing selection bias in some replies. NVC, like any framework, can be applied poorly. When it is applied effectively, it just comes across as clear and direct communication.

It is not intended for casual conversation, but to provide a framework for difficult conversations to increase the chances of a positive and productive result.
Benchmarking is hard: processors learn to predict branches
It’s not the tech per se that is usually lacking, what’s truly required is tech that solved a human need better than how it is being solved currently.

Since solving it better than how it is being solved requires much more than tech (distribution, habits, pricing), it does take a number of experiments before value from tech is unlocked by an entrepreneur.
That tracking is already being done. It is just poorly coordinated. Social Security is not a national ID. Hell, many men have a number due to "Selective Service" (AKA the draft that hasn't happened since Vietnam). Three companies have our entire address history unless we don't have credit cards. Our phone numbers are tied to us and our GPS is tied to our phones. The vast majority of us are tied to biometrics due to Real ID. We are all tracked when it matters.

We already lost that battle. And we are tracked when we register to vote.
Is Amazon the new Sears?
Studies show children don't perform as well in the early morning which is why this change was made. I don't want to de-value your experiences because they sound fantastic. However. Anecdota is not a substitute for science. I suggest skimming the summary by the Centers for Disease Control [1] which references numerous studies in support of schools starting later than 830am. You are of course welcome to wake your children up at any time, should you disagree with the CDC's findings, or you know, if they're morning people.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/features/school-start-times/index.html
128 MB memory. The alpha emulator. Suddenly wake up.

Still remember for old time sake do some 360 assemble on an emulator. Suddenly I aware that is 16 MB not GB ... and I use a 24 MB one to support thousands of users in 1980s.

Those really were the days.
Protected characteristics i.e. things you can't use as a basis for discrimination are things that people can't change about themselves. Refusing to do business because you don't like what someone is saying is different from refusing to do business on the basis of a protected characteristic.
Maybe capacity?
I think psychedelics have untapped potential for ADHD. A significant DMT experience I had greatly helped lessen my ADHD symptoms. I've also found that threshold doses of LSD increase my ability to focus as well as provide several other micro-benefits. I also suffered from anablephobia (fear of looking up into the sky), and after a particularly intense 100mcg LSD experience, that pretty much faded away and now I can look up in the sky with impunity.
There is a very interesting elevated transportation network in Xiamen, China (a city in Fujian, not far from Taiwan) which uses long buses with dedicated lanes. It works quite well and merges nicely with other traffic where needed, or during construction or maintenance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen_BRT
better description needed.
There was recently a similar story about Amazon Fulfillment turning off the final Oracle Database: https://twitter.com/jdarrow/status/1111629087947132928

I wasn't aware they are doing this PR pieces on a department by department basis.

Are there any more remaining Amazon departments still doing this process?
Maybe, but I can't "just leave".
I don't think violent communication is a good idea.

That's not communicating. That's being an asshole.
Bed times aren't mandated by a government board. School start times are.

Also, later school start times have in other states led to better academic performance, better behavior, etc., independent of any control for bedtime.

This decision has no downside. It's like mandating that hot dog vendors not sell disguised dog turds.
How'd you find a VMS job anyway?
Chaocipher is thoroughly broken (see the citations on Wikipedia[1]) so it's not really comparable to Schneier's algorithms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaocipher
Simple Contacts via F-Droid. Export to vcf once in a while and backup local and remote. Keep in mind, as soon as you integrate with anything you don't control (including caller id), you're right back to the privacy problems, so make sure your expectations of power account for that. Under-powered is a hard-to-find feature as far as I'm concerned.
> Scott Adams' use of the word does not seem inappropriate or juvenile to me.

Well then we differ. Given your (by my lights) Jesuitical approach to glossing a common English usage, I don't think we have anywhere further to go here. I personally can't imagine a circumstance where I'd call a brother or sister a 'loser', and certainly not by reference to a trivial superfluity like financial 'success'. And if I did not for a minute do I believe they'd consider the term a neutral descriptor.

But by all means carry on using the term however, and to whomever, you like.
Tech Book Face Off: How to Design Programs vs. SICP
I'm a woman who was homeless for nearly six years. Homeless women also are at high risk of being raped, which is one of the reasons you see relatively few women on the street compared to men.

I was never raped while on the street.

I also have lived without a car for more than a decade and accepted many rides from strangers. None of those rides ended tragically either.

I get told a lot I'm just lucky. It's a left-handed way of assuming a woman has no idea what she's talking about and can't possibly be competent.
I am 56 years old. I have never found a wallet or a debit card except one I found a card in a restaurant where I just hand it to a server.
What’s your problem domain? You shouldn’t be locked into AWS. No offense, but sounds like bad design or more generally, you or your engineers don’t know what they’re doing.
Germany hasn't had an issue with making it more difficult for minorities to vote since WWII. This was an attempt from last year: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/randolph-county-georgi... - It took a fair amount of protesting to stop it.
When has the US detained Chinese for arbitrary reasons?
I did begin my reply with ‘I don’t know what to say’. It was intended to be anecdotal.
Intelligent deploy skipping: An automatic optimization
The first thing I do with a new wallet is to put a piece of paper in it containing my name and phone number. It stays there forever useless, until it gets lost. I stole the idea from a reddit thread.
This, wish I could upvote this more.
I read through NVC, and it is more than that. It would be really hard to prove that any system improved relationships because of confounding variables. You’d need a 24hour judge to make sure that you weren’t violating the “rules” or whatever.

That being said, NVC isn’t a panacea. I think the most useful thing it does though is helps you to change language patterns. There are a lot of incorrect language aphorisms, especially in America English because at best they cause confusion and at worse they cause conflict.

Small example, try to see how many times you catch yourself or someone else saying, “I feel that...” followed by a bunch of words that are actually their opinions or thoughts.

I actually think NVC is more of a great diagnostic tool then it is a set of practices. Communicating non-violently isn’t just about being “good” it is often, just as much, learning how to express reality more accurately.

NVC is great at pointing out errors of thought and communication it really doesn’t try to say how to go about stopping yourself from doing it.
While we haven't run out of trees yet, better to use the scrap than not.
Why Switzerland? (2007)
Not sure if you'd consider it a technical or scientific insight, but I mentioned this on another HN post a while ago:

I was able to visualize four dimensional structures on LSD. I can't see it "instinctually" anymore, but I had a vision of our universe as the 3D surface of a 4D hypersphere, and from that perspective it's subjective whether you consider the entirety of the universe inside of you or outside of you.
After coming down I thought it was probably some nonsense that my brain dreamt up, but I analogized it as a 2D surface of a 3D sphere and it makes complete sense. Drawing a circle on a sphere and calling one side of the line you draw the "inside" is completely subjective—we just tend to call the smaller side inside. If you grow the circle to the greatest meridian of the sphere, which side is now "inside"? Is my brain on the inside and the universe on the outside, or is the universe on the inside and my brain on the outside?

I also kept seeing (when I say "see", it isn't the type of hallucination that appears like a real object in front of you, these all form in my mind's eye but are more vivid than what I can usually visualize) these grid-like, branching "corridors". I'm not sure what the best term for it would be and it may have not been 4 dimensional per se, but I don't think the way it's laid out would work in 3 dimensions. It was like I was floating in an intersection with rows (x), columns (y), and aisles (z) passing through me. A lot of this is hard to visualize when not tripping.
I'm pretty sure you could do this via reflection and virtual public methods. The same way entity framework creates its proxy classes.
That sounds great. Property values will vanish too and be realistic instead of the current bubble in some areas of the US. cough silicon valley.
As in Buster Keaton's "One Week", which also features one of the greatest and most enviable marriages in all of cinema.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd6ddOlbKp8
This is a perfect use case for those free address stickers that you get in the mail.