skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Art, sports, machine shop - you turn to professionals for these. But for the rest, any well-educated adult is able to teach up to middle school for instance.

It becomes harder in high school. Many home-schooled students attend regular high school when they are ready for it. And they are ready years earlier than those in the state-sponsored track.

Don't imagine that the average parent can teach a class of 30 better than a trained teacher. Nor can they tutor a single student better. But neither of those things is happening.

The average parent can tutor a single student better than a trained teacher can teach a class of 30 (or 40). That's the tradeoff you have as a parent. And yes, you sure can do better.

Consider: if that teacher did nothing but give individual attention to students all day for 5 hours, your student would get 10 minutes of individual attention per day. You can do that in the first 10 minutes of your home-school day. You can do 10 times better than that. In fact home-school 'school days' are generally just an hour or two, during which the student progresses further than the public-school student does in 5 hours.
What to do when the connection to the remote driver is broken?
Privacy isn't a matter of what's technically possible.

It's a matter of what is socially and legally acceptable.

I will argue, absolutely, that the present state of exposure given email and other electronic communications is largely unacceptable.
"Problems that humans will have to assist with" aren't randomly & evenly distributed. For instance, compared to what one good winter storm would do, for most of the year your "emergency drivers" will be twiddling their thumbs.

Also, the distribution of the problems themselves are going to be very time sensitive. When the car yells "Oh crap, I need a human!", you're looking at at least 5 seconds for a human to respond. Even ignoring the "take a number" problem, which pushes that number arbitrarily high during times of high load. Whatever problem resulted in the car yelling "I need a human!" is probably resolved one way or another before the human gets there, because physics isn't waiting. If the car persistently needs a human, the answer is not to remote-drive the car but to stop driving entirely, so it's only the transient issues that matter.

Basically, I'm not clear on what problem this solves.
Ello Raises $5.5M to Grow Its Ad-Free Social Network
Replication is an area where MySQL is still far ahead of Postgres. And I say that as someone who has almost exclusively used Postgres for the last 6 years or so. Postgres is finally starting to catch up, but it's taken forever.
This is pretty significant, because in Germany many corporations do require their data being hosted on German soil and protected under German consumer protection laws.

As a result the Cloud provider market is currently split into three categories: German corporations (e.g. Telekom) promoting themselves as truly compliant, US corporations with German hosting (Microsoft and Oracle) that self-promote themselves as compliant and US corporations such as AWS and Google that are aggressively attacked by German Cloud providers as violating German consumer protection law.

In the past I personally have lost customers in Germany because my services use App-engine and CloudSQL in Ireland. Thus, I hope Google follows with a German server for their cloud services.
Oxbridge follows the British consensus that values general education more than the specialist fields. If you want the best engineering education in the UK you go to Imperial College.
Certainly. Most of these are arguments for why people would make irrational decisions that break market models.

Cult: A singular leader or small group of leaders convince people who are looking for something to believe in/want to change the world of their worldview. The followers are willing to make non-optimal decisions in order to be a part of something greater/be close to the leader(s).

Warparties: A leader/small group of leaders convinces a group of people who are looking for something to believe in that they're on a holy mission: kill X. The followers are willing to make non-optimal decisions in order to be a part of something greater/be close to the leader(s).

Pirate Crew: A leader/small group of leaders convince a small group of people that they're special - and that they're going to work together to make a ton of cash. This is not necessarily true. The followers are willing to make non-optimal decisions in order to be a part of something greater/be close to the leader(s).
I've been trying various distros for 15 years now and pretty much stopped at Ubuntu.

Every week I used to visit http://distrowatch.com/ and look for a new distro to try. I liked Mint and #! too, but Ubuntu gave me the most consistent experience with the best repositories.
Allow modern science to develop drugs of recreation that minimise the downsides. We have a far greater understanding of pharmacology and Neuroscience now than ever before.

It would have to be done carefully - a pure market-based solution would likely optimise for addictivity so other constraints may need to be imposed.

But for an example, have a look at some of Prof. David Nutt's propositions about creating a less harmful alcohol substitute.

At the moment any research into making a 'better' recreational drug is highly controversial. Particularly where harm reduction is concerned - many on the 'anti' side consider it a moral issue and reducing harm goes directly against their sense of justice and punishment of those that transgress.
That's what I do, with a private BitBucket repo.
How to keep your users stay with your mobile apps
Yes. Smalltalk environments export an image that's a snapshot of the entire state of the VM. It's like a reloadable core dump of the VM. It's a binary though, not plaintext. But there is also a sophisticated distributed versioning system for Smalltalk code, which can save versioned snapshots of slices of your code and state that can be imported into different images: http://wiresong.ca/monticello/
This is an unintentionally funny announcement for two reasons:

1) Ello became popular with a non corporate grassroots campaign, and in fact came under fire for having taken venture capital in the past. This does not help.

2) Everyone forgot about Ello already.
Can SSL 3.0 be fixed? An analysis of the POODLE attack
Wake Up, Europe
I used those terms as flavor more than anything. That said, the core argument of each (we're going to kill X, we're going to make a ton of cash because we're just better and faster) is a typical conceit.
Really amazing. Previous discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6678947
Yes, I know your feeling. But sometimes you need to be pragmatic, specially when resources are limited, and in many use cases you can stick to the standard ORM functionality and forget about what's underneath.
The 2 Wolves of Creativity
There are two things to remember. The first is the match binding thing that tomp mentions in his reply.

The second one is that in OCaml, semicolon is a separator, and not a terminator. In contrast, in C/C++, semicolon is a terminator. If you have an expression, you end it with a ";" just because.

This is not the case for OCaml. In OCaml, semicolon is used to separate two sequential expressions where only one expression is expected. Thus,

<expr1>;<expr2>

is evaluated in sequence, and can be used in a place where only one is expected. For example, if statements have the following syntax:

if <expr1> then <expr2> else <expr3>

Now if you wanted to do two things (instead of one) in the "then" block, you would simply write

if <expr1> then <expr2.1>;<expr2.2> else <expr3>

Notice that under these rules

if <expr1> then <expr2>; else <expr3>

makes no sense. Separators are not terminators. We are used to thinking of ";" as terminators because of C/C++.
Here’s why your resume isn’t getting traction
From Silicon Valley to the Top of Inditex (Zara): The Journey of Maria Fanjul
Rocks are passing by us all the time at distances comparable to the moon's orbit. Some of them are rich in rare metals. Some of them threaten the Earth itself. So let's deflect them onto the moon, noting the crash sites. This will (a) teach us how to defend the Earth, (b) create an incentive for mining companies to build a moon base, (c) increase the supply of rare metals.
Determine a User's Time Zone on Signup
"giving purpose to large and politically powerful organizations and structures, such as the prison industrial complex"

Draconian sentencing and overreaction to drug use by the population led to the creation of the prison industrial complex (not the other way around).

I don't believe it's fair to place the blame solely on the "industry" or business of drug law enforcement, incarceration, treatment and rehabilitation as they are simply following the money/opportunity created by legislators.

I feel if we effectively change the laws (which will be hard as the lobbying is intense), the industry built around it will suffer and hopefully be reduced considerably breaking the cycle.

However, if we shift the "drug problem" from a law enforcement/criminal issue to a health issue, there will be a completely new industry created around rehab/treatment, even larger than exists today. Some will argue this is a good thing, but only if those that are profiting are operating responsibly.
Will do when the time has come. Thanks!
Psssst... Hey... Your ignorance is showing.
It simply shows that Unix predates modern requirements towards operating systems. There's no unified privilege hierarchy with capabilities. The only vertical isolation Unix offers is userspace vs. kernelspace and root vs. other users and for vertical isolation it's different users (which are abused, as daemons don't really belong to a user) and processes.

Because of modern requirements features that already exist get abused (vertical isolation of daemons through different users) and new features get tacked onto already existing ones. This leads to very complicated code-paths that are bug-prone for privilege escalation.
Users already offer horizontal isolation similar to containers that sit next to each other. But instead of making users more general they are half-emulated in containers.

The way which taken to fix this is by adding even more complexity, so I guess it will take long until we will come to a point where linux containers are reliable.
Most of the learning in school is taken from the material in the text books. So home schooling only requires an adult facilitator that can assist on moving that book knowledge to the brain of the student. Now that in itself is a skill that not every parent has. In those cases, the student, if successful, will figure out how to learn from the books.

Also much of home schooling is done as a correspondence course, which typically comes from a private school (these schools, usually religious in nature, have regular classrooms, and have home-schooled students which are considered part of the class, and they have periodic meetups available for field trips and stuff). In these cases there is a teaching staff to back up the parent, which provides homework and testing material, and sometimes phone support too.
Why are MySQL and MariaDB shown separately. For all intensive purposes they are the same.
Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online for Free
Oh yes I agree that if each teacher gave you their undivided attention it would have been fantastic. But while I could teach my child maths or physics quite well, I would not know nearly enough history or biology to even start. So I would need to stop working and consider education of my child to be my primary job. I think that's a massive sacrifice that's completely unnecessary, but hey, that's just my own opinion - maybe there are home-schooling parents who work full time at the same time,but I can't see it work. And if they are not working,but staying home to teach their children then the net benefit to society is.....negative? That's just my guess though.
"I would say that it is all comprehensible to a sympathetic native listener."

Not really. As a native speaker of mandarin, I have difficulty in catching specific words from time to time, although the rough meaning could be understood.
>intensive purposes

You mean "intents and purposes".
I can't quite understand it either.

Is he saying we should act as if watched or that we're being forced to act as if we are?

I assume it's the latter. BTW, I've actually heard recently a description (in the context of Adam Smith) of internalizing the voice of a watcher as the origin of 'Moral Sentiments.' He considered it a good thing. IE, your parents tell you hitting is bad. You eventually tell yourself its bad to hit and morality ensues.

There's a parallel to moral shifts in culture, like the ban on gay bashing, domestic abuse, littering & such. In the beginning a few police the many deriding them for littering. Then everyone stops doing it in public. Eventually the ethic is internalized.
IBM Launches IOT Foundation
That's how Tesla stores currently work. But those stores are illegal too.
I think most reading the article had that same thought, which is why the author didn't go into much detail on the preparation or exact process. Not that this article was the place, but when you combine an intellectual audience with the idea of mind altering substances your bound to pique some interest.
Ben Bradlee’s relentless presumption turned my life around
I can see in-EU vs. out-of-EU making a legal distinction, but how is it possible for German consumer protection law to require servers actually in Germany, vs. say in Ireland or Denmark? That seems like it would violate EU treaties on freedom of trade and services within the common market, which usually prohibits both direct and indirect restrictions (e.g. Denmark can't ban EU food imports by imposing unique food-safety requirements). Or is that just a marketing position (people prefer German servers) rather than an actual legal position?
I think the problem is just "automated". "Regulation" can't solve the problem of humans being just plain too slow to deal with that sort of scenario. It's a bad idea for humans to draft each other today; fuel economy gains will be offset by all the other negative effects. It's not ever clear to me that automation can solve the problem either; people imagining complicated driving arrangements often seem to forget that there will still be variances in cars. It does no good to build a 50-car train on the highway if car #34 turns out to have 15% less effective brakes and in the slightest emergency stop damages 15 cars in front of it.

If that sounds absurd, it's not. If you're trying to take advantage of the computer driving to run up against your safety margin, that has further effects. Sure, most of the time the computerized cars could in fact drive mere inches from each other's bumpers, but in an emergency situation this means you have no margin. You can't both spend your margin and have it when you need it.

If anything I expect robotic cars to end up being more cautious than humans in the end. Automated cars will be able to precisely calculate the risks of given driving behaviors just by their nature, and I seriously doubt that car companies are going to have any stomach for permitting their cars to engage in complicated gas-saving car behaviors that will provably be more dangerous than driving safely, which I suspect will look rather a lot like what highways do now, except with less variance in the speeds.

One of the things I'm really curious about is whether during a winter storm the cars will simply refuse to drive. That will be an interesting cultural change up here where snow is actually a thing.
It's true that home-schooling does not necessarily short on social interaction, but I've met enough people who were home schooled and did poorly in social setting to wonder how many people do well at this aspect of it for their children.

Outings, sports, music etc. are great but not enough on their own. For a lot of people doing home schooling, it must be difficult to arrange for several hours most days in the company a largish group of children with varied backgrounds and personalities. Not having this can make it difficult for children to develop socially.
School is not just for teaching, it also accomplishes the task of keeping the kids safe - and everyone else safe from the kids - while the parents are working.

Given that both parents are working in developed countries, this is very important.
You are using the wrong format to show you work (see that there is no link?).

Instead submit a "Show HN"; basically submit your CivilHub link, with a "Show HN:" at the beginning. Read guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
It's pretty much a standard thing. It allows them to test it as it scales up and iron out any issues.
Internship experiences sometimes change lives ... mine is currently doing the same. I would like to share this article to give a thumbs up to those who take risks giving opportunities to the outliers
I remember that syphilis was considered a just reward of the promiscuous. There was much resistance to the idea of a cure. AIDS was considered by some to be the judgement of God. Some things never change.
Agenda Quo Vadis – 4 cose che non sapevate
I believe he meant "once the [password] hash is in memory"
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Me too. this? https://cutterslounge.de/
Unfortunately, V8 implements slice() fast at the expense of correctness. A basic edge-case testcase like https://bug1087963.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=85... fails.

That said, it's clearly possible to do this fast _and_ correctly (e.g. IE manages this).

But as a note, some V8 folks would like to remove the buggy-but-fast thing completely. See https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3612#c2
Scouts. Camping clubs. Summer camp. Volunteer at the library/hospital/senior center. Its not hard at all.
I might have agreed with that when the two initially forked, however the gap continues to widen:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibi...
Not to say the unfit are irrational, just that fitness tends to prefers fitness. Glasses signal poor vision and is generally seen as dorky or nerdy. We can expect people not to make fun of those wearing glasses, but we can't expect people to find glasses as appealing as not wearing glasses. And because of that, I think some level of subconscious bias will be applied to those we view as having less than fit attributes.
I'm in my 20s and I feel the same way. It was fun initially to play around with different distributions, but I liked my work and I wanted to get things done without having to spend unnaturally long amounts of time setting things up.

In my case, I frequently update to x.04 releases or x.10 if they are more stable for updated packages that I rely on.
Glorious Haskell Compiler suggests names for typos too.
> They aren't natural disasters we have no control over or responsibility for.

I have an opposite point of view. There's something about human dynamics we're unable to control.
Science and Engineering Degrees: 1966–2010
Something I feel that's always missed in these discussions is context: Who is the adversary you're attempting to protect against?

Your kids screwing around with your phone? TouchID does the job.

Random people screwing around with your phone if they find it? Same thing.

Government gets ahold of it? Yeah.. notsomuch.

Considering that the primary adversaries of an average smartphone user are other mere mortals, not dedicated spy agencies, a fingerprint login strikes a very good balance between usability and security.

Consider the alternative - either requiring a standard alphanumeric password on unlock (just about zero usability), or a 4 digit pin code (less usable than the fingerprint while providing identical, maybe slightly less security than that option), or more likely than not, no password of any kind, the whole touch ID thing is a massive jump forward in the security posture of the average iOS user.

Most iOS users I know have it enabled simply because it means they don't have to keep re-keying their app store password.
21st Century Teamsters: How Uber, Lyft, and Facebook Drivers Are Organizing
> [Horny Hedgehog from memory]

I started with the same release myself. It was called "Hoary Hedgehog"[1], but I like your version too.

[1] http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/hoary/
Fix OS X Yosemite
I'll stick with MySQL, the features and stability just keep getting better. Replication, Memcache Plugin (with amazing write and read performance that supports replication), InnoDB Barracuda compression, JSON datatypes (in 5.7), it has scaled amazing well for us at Enginuity Search Engine. I should do a write up on our company blog sometime about all this.
For Swiss, a Distasteful Jolt with Coffee: Hitler Creamer
Or just get a good curriculum and follow it. You only have to be 1 day ahead on the lessons to teach. We're talking 6-12 year olds. You can read from the book, watch the videos with them, talk through your own experiences.

And its just an hour or two a day. Doesn't have to cramp your career at all. Or you can team up with others in your community, take a day a week and do what you know, leave the rest to the others. Now your child is in a group of 4 or 5, still manageable, still valuable to have the close attention of their teachers.
What was always worse was that the choices never came with any explanation. I remember a while back trying some flavour of Linux or other, and during installation it asked (paraphrased):

"Use Nautilus or Thunar?"

I imagine the story behind this is that half the Linux devs preferred the first, and half preferred the second, and so instead of the distribution having the balls to choose one, they forced they choice onto the user.

For the average user however, the choice read as:

"Open Mystery Box 'A', or Mystery Box 'B'? Warning: opening the wrong box will mean that many of the things you try to do simply won't work!"

Choice here is very bad: it makes the user feel powerless, yet simultaneously assigns blame to the user in the event that things go wrong.