skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lost the plot? I have had two main arguments:

1. Due to its simplicity for a large group of naïve users, the library will likely be prone to over- and misuse. Since the library uses guessing as its method of decoding, and by definition a guess may be wrong, this will lead to some unnecessary data corruption in situations where use of this library (and the resulting data corruption) was not actually needed.

2. The library uses a one-size-fits-all model in the area of guessing encodings and language. This has historically proven to be less than a good idea, since different users in different situations use different data and encodings, and your library’s algorithm will not fit all situations equally well. I suggested that a more tunable and customizable approach would indeed be the best one could do in the cases where the encoding is actually not known. (This minor complexity in use of the library would also have the benefit of discouraging overuse in unwarranted situations, thus also resolving the first point, above.)

You have, as far as I can see, not yet responded substantively to the first point, and for the second point you have only asserted that your user-uncustomizable alorithm is superior to any possible other automatically derived algorithm.

Yet, I’m the one who deserves a Plonk? I think not.
You should try gridless 5e, it discards a lot of the Math and time suck.
Ehh, I don't know about that conclusion. Just because people are more open doesn't mean that the therapy is effective. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if you're right.

But at the end of the day, a good therapist (in my experience) is really just a sounding board that points you on the right direction. If you've had a recurring concern recently, they may be able to push the conversation in the right way to figure it out.

For those who haven't seen a therapist, the best analogy I have is rubber duck debugging; it's not that the listener solves your problems, but rather that they allow you to help yourself.
Around 50.. Not all unique, some are the same in different TLDs, and just different variations, especially when there is a number in the name.

I'm letting them mostly expire now.
4.0 design was based on computer games.
I too am getting into Rust and am liking what I'm seeing so far. However, I find its type abstraction facilities limited. For example, the concept of a "monad" is not expressible using the trait system so that a bunch of related types can reuse the abstraction. Instead what we have to do is to declare a ListMonad<T>, OptionMonad<T>, with separate signatures for map/join/whatever. Ideally, something like Monad<M<T>> could be the trait specification.

edit: Not Monad<M<T>>, but just Monad<M> with the facility to use M<T> in the body of the trait. I don't have a clear idea of how references, lifetimes, etc. would pan out in this case.
I noticed during my Googling that everyone seems to hate WB/IMF - how come?
The thing that isn't clear to me is whether the FAA has any kind of authority over Flytenow. Technically, doesn't their authority extend only to the pilots who use the service?
> I did not imply anything about school systems outside the western world,

You obviously don't know anything about the plethora of different systems inside the Western world, either.
I'd guess that HN users are typically people who performed well academically. I certainly did. Think about the kids in class who couldn't sit still, couldn't stop talking. Oftentimes they ended up with an ADD or ADHD diagnosis and a prescription. Being told that you act abnormally and need medicine to stop you from being you is understandably damaging.
CodeWorld: A web-based programming environment using a variant of Haskell
> I don't understand how, on a site called "Hacker News," so many people seem oblivious to how damaging the primary educational system is to young peoples' minds and methods of thought.

I don't understand how, on a site called "Hacker News," so many people seem happy to upvote mindless, sweeping, and ignorant statements about a specialist topic from people obviously largely ignorant on said topic.
Since schools are primarily funded locally, your experience is likely vastly different from someone who went to school in a less affluent area.
In fact, I think the social interaction with other children of similar age is extremely important to developing social skills and friendships.

And unfortunately social interaction is severely restricted and punished in K-12 education (in the US, which is the extent of my familiarity).

I volunteered at an elementary school for a year, and the kids there had little opportunity to socialize freely. Recess and lunch were limited to a combined 40 minutes, including transition periods to and from the classroom. Gym/physical education was a "unit", only attended one week out of every three, and much like I remembered from my own schooling, more than half of that time is spent explaining the rules to some highly-structured, barely-constitutes-exercise activity.
The setup done here is very impressive. Automation with Docker, RPM, Chef, TestKitchen, Tests for Chef Scripts, Go, and the works.
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH OMGGGGG!!!!!! THIS IS HILARIOUS HAHAHAHAHAH.

Damn this is actually great. We messaged a few people asking to help cut times (which was my biggest pet peeve). No one ever came through :').

For the title, it's just something we're testing out. I love scrolling through the DB etc, and a title makes me laugh ahaha. Maybe we can use it in a future thing?

I'm gonna text you ^_^
Color Runner
Firstly, Hitler liberalised German's gun laws slightly. He actually removed some of the restrictions and allowed Germans even to own some types of gun without a permit. Of course, Jews were banned from owning guns entirely, but in Nazi Germany, Jews were obviously a special case. The story that Hitler was a big supporter of gun control is just some bullshit propaganda by modern NRA types.

Secondly, you're conflating modern American ideas of what a Conservative is with what it would have meant in the 1930s or earlier. In the 19th century, conservatives would have been the guys in favour of protectionism and big government intervention in business, compared to the liberals of the day who'd have been more in favour of laissez-faire economics. By the 1940s, laissez-faire had been discredited by the Great Depression and nobody was too enthusiastic about the free market.

As for concentration camps, they were invented by the Conservative British government during the Boer war. (The six or seven death camps in Poland were an unprecedented phenomenon, so far unique to Nazi Germany, of course).

Political ideas change over time. You're trying to impose modern political ideas inappropriately onto what happened in the past.
Kim Dotcom: from playboy entrepreneur to political firebrand
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8186972
Hey, thank you for this sharp and insightful one-liner.

I am keenly aware of my own ignorance, and always looking for opportunities to learn. Care to enlighten me?
>Secondly, school serves as a valuable social and educational center to most children. Even though elementary education is imperfect, it does not mean that a viable solution is to simply do away with it. In fact, I think the social interaction with other children of similar age is extremely important to developing social skills and friendships.

Great, let's make primary school a place to park children so their parents can go to work where children can do whatever the hell they want. These exist. They are called Sudbury or democratic schools.

While I have your attention, some links.

Teaching arithmetic to children below sixth grade has either no effect or negative effects, seeing as the extra education makes them worse at word problems.[0][1]

Homework has no positive effects on learning in any non-mathematical subjects and no positive effects whatsoever before middle school.[3]

[0]http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201003/whe....

[1] L. P. Benezet (1935/1936). The teaching of Arithmetic: The Story of an Experiment. Originally published in Journal of the National Education Association in three parts. Vol. 24, #8, pp 241-244; Vol. 24, #9, p 301-303; & Vol. 25, #1, pp 7-8.

[2]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775711...
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science (Impact Factor: 0.46). 06/2011; 43(3):195-202. DOI: 10.1037/a0022697 ABSTRACT Although homeschooling is growing in prevalence, its educational outcomes remain unclear. The present study compared the academic achievements of homeschooled children with children attending traditional public school. When the homeschooled group was divided into those who were taught from organized lesson plans (structured homeschoolers) and those who were not (unstructured homeschoolers), the data showed that structured homeschooled children achieved higher standardized scores compared with children attending public school. Exploratory analyses also suggest that the unstructured homeschoolers are achieving the lowest standardized scores across the 3 groups.
Even if that were true, I would have learned much less as there were many things I and many children learned via reading far before the age of 11. So while they supposedly caught up on reading, they had missed out on several years of learning when the brain is most capable of doing so.

And honestly, that study is so loose. It reminds of the good ol' days of Whole Word learning and how many kids lives they screwed up with that experiment gone bad.

http://www.readinghorizons.com/research/whole-language-vs-ph...

EDIT: Apparently, I need to clarify loose. Sample size: 267
It reminds me of websites that insert live stock quotes into their stories.

- generally the information / buy it now link isn't of interest to readers

- more useful generally would be a link to an internal encyclopaedia page: give the reader more information about the company/book, and include stock quotes / buy it now links on that page

- if it's truly useful enough to include inline in the article, the journalist will put it there manually

- a middle ground would be to pull stock quotes / buy it now links out of the main text into the margin
Dividend Growth Stocks And Share Buyback Announcements Of The Past Week
The other reply to this talking about depriving your child of an education etc, is exactly what I would say. And absolutely, yes I feel that this is definitely child abuse.
You should detail the logical relationships between theses and people acting on them because -isms don't send anyone anywhere, people do. To say they do without offering a road map is loose thinking.
Not sure how accurate your profile is, but if you're still 16 and thus in high-school you may not appreciate just how different the real world is. And that exactly is why it is so damaging.

In school there are a small number of people that are given authority over a huge swath of your life completely arbitrarily. This affects how you act and spend your time. This is completely opposite to how things work in the real world.

Another issue is that you're surrounded primarily with people of the same age. That is children/teenagers that similarly have little to no external life experience. In the real world you are surrounded by people of many demographics (age, ethnicity, background, etc).

Physical violence in white-collar workplaces (which is what I imagine most readers here would be working at) is near non-existent vs being at school where it's a very real threat for many people.

The concept of responsibility and bills. This is not directly about school, but often a result of school. Because you're in school you don't really have any bills of your own. You're placed in an artificial construct where your parents take care of most of your major bills (housing, food) and you are not forced to make your own income - and in fact many people are discouraged from finding employment during their school years because it may "impact their studies". So the essential life skills of managing a budget, balancing income and bills, etc don't get learned at all.

You don't see yourself as "damaged" because you don't understand or imagine what is possible outside of the school environment. While you can communicate with your peers, how well can you communicate to managers in a company? Can you sell a service or product to someone? Can you ask the right questions to find out what someone's true pain point is and not get distracted by their proposed solution?

If you left school right now (or 5 years ago) and had to make it on your own, you'd obviously be a very very different person today. Is that person better than you are now? Obviously that's impossible to say. But if that person is/would be better, then you can argue that your current self is damaged relatively speaking.
These types of handwaving "this is broken", "that is broken" statements are really starting to bug me. I'd expect better from a site called "hacker news".

As someone who hated school growing up, I don't think the system is broken or "damaging". Our education system is an old structure, evolved mostly in a time without computers, large scale data analysis or widespread real time communication. The deficiencies of the system (especially the more recent industrialization of education) are popping up as if they were obvious all along.

You underestimate the scale of the education system, and how much effort it takes to change and evolve over time in a way that is reasonably fair (filling air with whiny noise doesn't count).

There are countless initiatives underway to find ways to improve the education system. There are people working really hard to change the giant machine that is our education system. There are plenty of problems that have been brought to light (administrative bloat, memorization over critical thinking, authority over freedom), we know.

Can we as a community start putting votes to people who are acting, rather than people who dramatically whine with ideas that really aren't practical? Exchanging ideas is awesome, I just get tired of the whiny peanut gallery with inexperienced dogma.
Pearson still selling old edition of Stroustrup in India
Pearson India's low-priced edition of Stroustrup's ‘The C++ Programming Language’ is still stuck in the 2000 even though it has been more than a year since the publication in the US of the 4th edition of the book which covers C++11.

http://www.pearsoned.co.in/web/books/9788131705216_The-C-Programming-Language_Bjarne-Stroustrup.aspx

While Pearson is free to pursue any policy it chooses, as a consumer and a programmer I still feel outraged by this shoddy treatment.
Is there a startup working on making this accessible to the average person?

I could see a huge advantage in paying, say 30 usd, a month for access to a shrink, as I believe most people could use one, much like even those of us who are not 300 pounds could benefit from a nutritionist.
This is bullshit. Sit down, shut up and do as you're told has been the primary and secondary school curriculum in most every mass school system everywhere. John Taylor Gatto wrote Seven Lessons long before No Child Left Behind.

http://the7lessonteacher.com/
> In fact, I think the social interaction with other children of similar age is extremely important to developing social skills and friendships.

But is putting 30 kids together in a room with one adult the right way to do it?

I question the belief that school is necessary for socialization. Obviously home school for everyone isn't an option, but there are plenty of studies that show home schooled children turn out just as well off or better. So where is the evidence that socialization in a school environment is necessary or even beneficial.
Hey, great job with this! I'm really interested in details as well.
The FAA bowing to protectionist industries. What ever happened to personal liberty? If a pilot and passenger want to share a ride (and expenses), where the passenger understands full well that the pilot is trained and operates under the "private" standard, what is the compelling state interest in preventing them from doing so?

The issue of payment reveals that this is not a safety regulation, but rather an industry protectionist regulation. Same goes for the ridiculous FAA rule against commercial (as opposed to hobby) remote controlled flights.

The fact that money changes hands shouldn't be of any concern to the FAA.
I absolutely disagree that this type of "home schooling" should be legal. I do believe it is child abuse. These people should be treated just any parent that does not enroll their child in school. And I think they should have their kids placed in state custody and not even considered letting their children back in their care until they have had a full psychiatric evaluation.

It's true that these parents are likely sick and need mental health treatment. Maybe I should have more sympathy for them, but I think about the poor kids and about how lucky I was to have parents who cared more about their children than some crazy ideology.
Improved async is the biggest new feature in 3.4
Highlight-read is done by a lot of non-speed readers for chunking. I am one of them. Please move the annotation.
> They own their farm

> barely above the poverty line.

Doesn't really add up. Any guesses on how much a farm in Vermont costs? It's not cheap. Big hunch the money for that farm came from someone else. Most likely an inheritance.
No. YAGO is actually a curated subset of those.
As long as "authoritarian" is part of both sides, the state is generally pleased to have both debate meaningless things.
> But if that person is/would be better, then you can argue that your current self is damaged relatively speaking.

That's a weird interpretation of personal development.
From the title, I expected some evidence that the AI was better than an actual human. That's not the case. The comparison was AI transparent vs. AI posing as human.

The posing AI could be arbitrarily worse than an actual human and still be better than itself when not posing.
Funny, I had the same thought about working remotely. But I wonder what the internet is like, and I don't think I could stand the cold all year. It'd be an interesting place for a holiday solitary retreat, a small house to go live in during the summer months and think. Explore the wilderness, write, program. It's a curious idea actually.
So close. Make it work with peoples normal email address and host it somewhere that isn't subject to a NSL and we are golden.
The fact that you use anecdote to support a position might be evidence that your schooling did damage you. Your position would be more convincing if it had taught you about bias and about using reputable sources to support your argument. :-)
Yeah. Telstra prepaid still do the phone driven menu, where you "call" a number, but instead of voice a text menu pops up on your phone. It's quite nice actually. I think they're called USSD menus?
Transparent object proxies in Python
> Is the elementary educational system truly "damaging" to young minds?

I think so, and not just because some schools fail to provide a decent core education on the primary subjects. Obviously, many public schools do provide a reasonable core education (I got a pretty decent one, although Wikipedia sure helped). I'm more worried about the culture of schools and how kids are taught to think about creativity, authority, society, etc.
> If unschooling were so great 3rd world countries would be dominating the world.

Except that they don't have easy access to books or the Internet. And also food.
Jack Dorsey arrested in Ferguson. Multiple sources confirm in Ferguson
Inner city living is the emotional equivalent of a hovel: single parent never home or addicted, mother has different abusive boyfriend each month, a walk to school is an invitation to join a gang - living in the inner city is about surviving to see tomorrow. One cannot study if the basic needs are absent.
What's the visa situation for foreigners working remotely in Japan? I was under the impression that Japanese visa regulations were pretty strict and also rigorously enforced.
Related to Armin's "The Python I Would Like To See" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8186008
HUD Helmet campaign becomes fastest to reach $1m on IndieGoGo
As if any company reviews that much the code they get from out-sourcing and off-shoring.
It sort-of does work with people's existing email (since the public key is just added as an email alias). If you didn't have the public key in the email, you'd have to have central repo for public keys, which is what this technique is trying to prevent.

Also, this is an unhosted application, so you can just right click and save-as. It still works hosted on your local filesystem (which isn't subject to NSLs).
> elementary school system in the west is that kids are given no room for self-direction

To be fair this is happening not just in the West. Japan's education system is a disaster in itself which creates kids who stop asking questions after a couple of years. I let you imagine what you end up when they reach the state of adulthood.
As a collector of edge cases and other 'valuable weirdness', I'm at a loss to picture such a use case short of some obscure archival process with interoperability constraints... can you elaborate to clarify when this may be a problem?

I was fairly sure ISO8601 with correct timezone information for every item, was completely sufficient for all my time needs, so if theres something it fails at, id like to know more.
I'm one of the developers of a really nice web frontend for WeeChat, Glowing Bear. What it does is open a WebSocket from your browser to your WeeChat (probably somewhere on a server), and you can use it on a desktop browser, tablet, or smart phone.

https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear
http://www.glowing-bear.org/
American Loneliness
I'm a text highlighter too, I do it across most articles and the like. Genius on the other hand, I use that for close analysis of lyrics and text, so I only highlight to annotate something, so it's never annoyed me like it has you. I also really like the website, so I guess we differ there, but hey different strokes and all that!
An asset is not necessarily liquid; also plenty have people have negative net worthy.
The problems of inner city schools go beyond the education system. It's like trying to fix Iraq by sending more doctors - it does little to address the root cause.
The wonders one can do with 64KB. :)
Shifting such important and secretive things like documents to the cloud - and even an cloud of which you have no control over - will not (and probably not ever) be possible within a government institution.
>So while they supposedly caught up on reading, they had missed out on several years of learning when the brain is most capable of doing so.

Reading is not the only way to learn, and before a certain age it looks like it's not the most effective. There are many more studies that show that a play based education up until age 7 is superior to a rigorous academic education at the same age.

The evidence shows that it is very likely that spending an extra 2 years playing, and exploring is better than spending that time in the class practicing reading picture books.

Older children also progress faster, so an 8 year old who started learning to read at age 7 is reading much more sophisticated material than a 6 year old who started at age 5. It's not like there is an equivalent 2 year loss of reading time.

>And honestly, that study is so loose.

Care to offer some meaningful critique.

>how many kids lives they screwed up with that experiment gone bad.

In this case starting school later is not the experiment. It was the way things were for most of human history.

Schooling at 4 and 5 years old is a very recent invention--the data doesn't back up its effectiveness--so we should eliminate it.

Edit: In response to the above edit. There is nothing inherently wrong with a sample size of 267. That's actually a fairly large sample size for studies like this. My brother is a grad student in applied linguistics. He'd kill for 267 study participants for his second language acquisition research.