skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, elementary started at 9AM, while middle and high schools started at 7:30AM. The buses would arrive at school a good half an hour before school started (why, I could not tell you), so in practice you had to be up before 6AM to catch the bus (maybe a bit later if you were less meticulous than I was). And even when you were old enough to drive a car, you couldn't get that much more sleep out of it. I was pretty much continually sleep deprived from 12-18 because of this.

The ironic thing is, as an elementary schooler, I would frequently wake up much earlier than I needed to be to watch cartoons/play video games/read/do homework/etc. It was only after hitting puberty that I actually needed the extra sleep time, and that's exactly when they hit you with the schedule change. And people wonder why teenagers are so grumpy these days.

As far as I can tell, the reasoning behind this is "parents drive their elementary school-aged kids to school and need the extra time." The vast majority of kids, myself included, rode the bus from kindergarten onwards, so I guess this is just another case where the upper crust got to fuck everyone else over for the sake of their own convenience.

EDIT: The other half was the school-run extracurriculars that started in middle school. I remember an attempt to start our high school later being shot down; the athletes didn't want to stay any later than they already were, and the sports coaches didn't want to lose any practice time. Clearly football is more important than the health and education of the average student.
Insecurity is pretty high, it really depends on the neighbourhood, time of the day and your profession though (like always).

The thing is, most of the time nothing will happen to you, but, it is pretty usual to get robbed.

Anecdotally, we've had two home invasion in my family in the last two years and two laptop stolen. My family members where also present in an armed robbery in a supermarket, so it's out there.

Most of the times, you can live your life normally, unless you get unlucky, which is not that uncommon.

All in all I'd say you can live a pretty normal happy life but the risk is always there, it is good to be a little bit cautious.
Wow, that sounds awesome. Thanks :)
A Case for Spreadsheets
Some details from a Uruguayan (myself :)

- There's laptops for all kids Of public schools, that in most cases, are pretty bad. Also not from Mujica's adminstration but from Vazquez's (same party, different president)

- Free internet for everybody up to 1GB, also, I dont think this is merit from Mujica.

- No taxes on tech companies I don't think this is true, maybe tech companies have some exemptions, but that's all.

I like Mujica, but not everything good that happens is because of him, also he likes to throw ideas all the time, without the seriousness you would expect from a president.

All in all, I think he is a good president, but not the hero the world wants it to be.
> you'd know that I wasn't trying to rebuke all claims of flaws. Hell, I didn't try to rebuke any such flaws. I didn't even deny them.

You caught that did you? I'm very impressed.
Yeah, me too. The author points this out painstakingly too. I'm not familiar with MS SQL CSV exporting so I can't verify the truth of that statement though.
Payment Systems Adventures – Counting Friends And Foes
> you aren't really increasing per-capita income,

Even countries that are relatively open to (legal) immigration, like Canada and Australia, tend to limit immigration to working-age adults qualified to work in technical, professional or otherwise white-collar jobs. So I think it's fair to say that you do increase per-capita income.

I wouldn't put the US in the same boat as Japan, though. Between green cards and naturalizations, the US receives well over 1 million immigrants per year (that doesn't count non-immigrant visas like H1B etc):

http://www.voanews.com/content/us-issues-million-green-cards...
So you're saying that a "my way or the highway" policy is more polite and better for the health of the project and developer community than the occasional bit of colorful language? It seems to me that the former is a much bigger insult in an "actions speak louder than words" kind of way, especially coming from people for whom the primary concern is producing working code, not politics.
It is the same for the US. People that naturalize are "required" to sever citizenship they hold with other nations. However, many people fail to follow through and notify previous host nations.
Seems like a marketing recipe for disaster.

"Why can't I see you on you on my webrtc compatible desktop app?!"

Like an end-user is going to recognize the difference in terminology.
I think more than just a product decision, this seems to be a more strategic decision. Inbox is great for consumers, for your personal email. But for power email users, there's very little, which is perhaps why they haven't even opened it up to Google Apps users.

There's an underlying trend, while consumer mobile apps have been embracing more and more unbundling, the good business mobile apps out there are actually bundling more and more. Inbox replaced Mailbox for my personal email.

But for work, once I moved to Acompli https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/acompli-email/id829384901?mt..., there was no turning back.

Acompli leaves a lot to be desired in terms of design, but I really don't care because it has seamless multi platform file integration and integrated scheduling features, stuff that I don't need for my personal email. But mailbox and now inbox is great for my personal email, because it focuses on stuff I really care about: quick replies, adding simple tasks and most importantly snoozing emails that I don't need to reply to rightaway.
For all its faults, this article does mention one thing about PostgreSQL that I have always been happy with: ease of installation.

Having been through many, many installs of Oracle and MS-SQL in my career, the speed at which you can get a PostgreSQL server up and running with data is simply awesome.
>>CryptoLog: The reason is simple: I took along some interesting reading material and ignored the speakers. That technique served to advantage again for three more snoozers, Thursday’s “digital signature and electronic cash” session, but the final session, also on complexity theory, provided some sensible listening.

I suppose the NSA didn't make anything off of bitcoin. #umadbro
> the weakness of Yen means they are investing more and more abroad

Shouldn't a weak yen make it cheaper to invest at home relative to abroad? What's the mechanism that causes the opposite effect?
Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji: The rapid evolution of a wordless tongue
What happens if you suffer that and lose the master password to your password vault?

His method, though flawed in other regards, would potentially work out better for this problem--if he could work out one password, he could probably guess at the rest.
I'm assuming that two you're referring to Anwar Al-Awlaki and his son, Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, since they seem to be the most famous.

Just to get some facts straight, to date there's only been one US citizen targeted and killed by US drones: Anwar Al-Awlaki. As of last year, three other Americans are known to have been killed by drone strikes outside the US: Samir Khan, Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki and Jude Kenan Mohammed. None were specifically targeted - Samir Khan was killed during the strike against the elder Al-Awlaki, the younger Al-Awlaki was killed during a strike targeting Ibrahim al-Banna in Yemen, and Jude Kenan Mohammed was killed during a strike against a compound in Pakistan. All were killed by CIA drones, not DOD drones (NSA is part of the DOD; CIA is not). The Attorney General declassified the reasoning for targeting the elder Al-Awlaki[1], which was ultimately decided at the Presidential level - not by the NSA.

That said, this is beside the point - when the media is stirring up a frenzy about the NSA and civil liberties, they're not talking about CIA drone strikes in Yemen. It's a little disingenuous to lump the two together. It also doesn't go very far in answering my question regarding evidence of harm to US citizens. Maybe I'm out of touch with the rest of America, but I don't see the USA Freedom Act gaining much traction based on public outrage that 3 people over the last decade were accidentally killed by drones while hanging out with members of a militant group that had declared war against the US, especially when the purpose of said bill is to limit FISA warrants and FBI use of NSLs[2].

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7031...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/268...
> It seems like it would be a good idea for a design team to have an embedded developer involved in the design process from the beginning.

Ya, that used to be my job. This actually happens at Microsoft (my company), you'll get one or two people who can code and do prototypes working directly in the design studio working more directly with the designers (also useful for calling out BS when the devs say they can't do something).
Careful, you'll prove his point.
5 Life Lessons From 5 Years of Traveling the World
My favorite video that drives this point home: http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

Using actual signal generators and oscilloscopes, this guy proves by experiment everything you said. Goes into differences between sampling rate and quantization depth as well. Well worth the watch.
yeee.. GO doesn't suck.
Minor nitpick: I think you meant "public cryptography" instead of "non-government cryptography".

Differential cryptanalysis was publicly unveiled in 1990; IBM first discovered it in 1974, but NSA came in and classified it.
This is exactly the feeling I got from the article. While the author did state that he wasn't as familiar with MSSQL as with PostgreSQL, he didn't do very well in enumerating on the facts surrounding his criticisms of MSSQL. I think this greatly hurt his good points.

But yeah, an awesome resource for people dipping their toes in the Postgres pool.
> adding to that expense is Japan's need to increase its defense spending to provide a small measure of balance in its territorial disputes with its neighbor

Japan's military spending is 7th or 8th largest in the world, depending on who's measuring it. [1]

Any conflict with China that actually goes beyond posturing is going to be a small scale skirmish. If that happened both countries would rapidly seek to de-escalate (behind the scenes). The two economies are too closely linked for either country to want full scale war. Their existing military is already more than adequate to deal with any small scale skirmishes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
They do, but as long as the change is generally positive they eventually come around.

Each of Facebooks major UI/functionality changes over the years has come with a heap of resistance from users. Not many though if given the choice now would want to undo the past 5 years or more of changes.
I like

git diff --word-diff=color

for diffing LaTeX.
What was it that Gandhi said? First you sneer at people, then you lie to people, then when caught out you make up stories to try to get sympathy? Wasn't that it?
This is correct. The concentration of capital grows so large that the owner literally cannot spend it faster than it grows. If it was simply vaulted and ignored, deflation would result, from that cash being removed from circulation.

Thanks to our central banks, any deflation pressure is seen as a license to print more money, which is a tax on non-circulating savings. To avoid this, holders of cash do their best to invest as much as possible.

Investment is emphatically not economically equivalent to spending. It's a lot like spinning your cash around in place so everyone knows you can still spend it. It does not create jobs or help the middle class; only actual spending does that.
A WebRTC-compatible endpoint must be able to communicate with a WebRTC endpoint, but apparently need not understand it, at least that is what I make of it.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-12#se... mentions one concrete example of a WebRTC-compatible endpoint: a WebRTC Gateway that mediates between a WebRTC endpoint and a non-WebRTC endpoint.

Vague? Yes. Poor choice of words? Yes (both IMHO)
there's a humorous point: all "xxxxxx sciences" are /not/ sciences. compare political science, social science, computer science, earth science, with chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology. the real sciences don't need what ends up being a self-negating qualifier.

computer science isn't a science because it's a hodgepodge of algorithms and miscellanea, and very little theory-building.
I object to this sort of analysis and comparison. Languages don't suck. They may be well or ill suited to particular tasks or development styles.
It appears that there is a huge business opportunity for someone to find a way to defeat this type of tracking. Of course, it would probably need to be a subscription type of service, which bodes well for steady recurring revenue.
> I'm waiting for the first carrier to perform SSL MITM.

Nokia, funnily enough, did this on certain dumbphone models. Not a carrier, I know, but still interesting.

http://gaurangkp.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/nokia-https-mitm/
Having used Zypper, Yum, Apt, and Pacman, I'd have to rank them pacman > zypper > apt > yum. Have you tried the others? Apt syntax is so cumbersome using either the Suse or Arch package manager.
Yeah, this trick works for most paywalled articles out there.

Googling the URL/title of the paywalled article will almost always give you access the full article (or at least a copy somewhere else).
> Or has anyone seen regulators preventing experiments on self-driving cars and trains in order to keep train conductor's jobs?

Yes? Isn't that the crux of the Uber and AirBnB and Aereo battles?
I was aware of that but didn't mention it because it's not relevant to the question of whether that was a good wardrobe choice when representing you and your colleagues’ professional work for international media coverage.
DieHard directly inspired the Windows Fault-Tolerant Heap, and follow-on work (DieHarder) inspired security hardening features in Windows.

Follow-on work from DieHard, which probabilistically tolerates memory errors, includes the following: Archipelago, which trades virtual address space for reliability; Exterminator, which automatically corrects memory errors with high probability; and DieHarder, which secures the heap against attack. The Github repo contains the code for all of these.

More info here -

http://emeryberger.com/research/diehard/

http://emeryberger.com/research/archipelago/

http://emeryberger.com/research/exterminator/

http://emeryberger.com/research/dieharder/

DieHarder talk at Woot 2011: https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot11/dieharder-securing-...
Which it is. Good riddance, in my opinion, those threats couldn't have happened to a more deserving set of corporations.
As someone who has lived in Japan for the past 8 years.. I still feel like an outsider in many many ways. Unfortunate to have to say it, but there's much deeper issues than immigration law at play.
I also think it's the most likely explanation.

It is not advantageous for Google's executives to collaborate in the tracking of US citizens; it adds a lot more work and it makes for absolutely awful PR. I'd also like to think that they possess some moral compass (even if it's a bit slanted) which lets them understand the difference between wide scale "anonymized" tracking for the purpose of advertising and giving all that data to a bunch of humans to scrutinize and judge for the purpose of spying.
Same people even. If you read the comment history of some systemd haters on reddit you'll more than once find that they are also engaged in #gamergate
US State Department shuts down email due to hackers
The final line of this article is just astounding to me:

> Barring unforeseen obstacles, an on-line interactive computer service, provided commercially by an information utility, may be as commonplace by 2000 AD as telephone service is today. By 2000 AD man should have a much better comprehension of himself and his system, not because he will be innately any smarter than he is today, but because he will have learned to use imaginatively the most powerful amplifier of intelligence yet devised.

An "on-line interactive computer service"?...what did "on-line" even mean back then...nevermind "interactive"...The prediction in 1964 that we would have "an information utility as commonplace by 2000 AD as telephone service is today" must be one of the most prescient and accurate three-decade predictions ever made in a general interest magazine.
86 to 14...I wonder where my time reading web pages in my Twitter and FB apps — and Reeder — account towards.
C:

Manual memory management can get tiring. Only if you don't exercise.

String handling is manual memory management. See above. See above.

The support for concurrent programming is anemic. Introducing C11 and OpenMP!

Terribly named standard functions: isalnum, fprintf, fscanf, etc. Beauty is subjective.

The preprocessor is the best thing ever.

Not feeling your smartest today? Have a segfault. Can I have another?

Lack of good information when segfault occurs... the "standard" GNU toolchain doesn't tell you the causes of segfaults in the standard runtime. Enable debug mode.

If that code is legacy, you're in for two days of not looking like a hero. Luckily there are 137 alternatives.

:-)
To hear the Cisco CEO tell it, placing the ISPs under Title II will take us back to 1950's voice and undermine innovation.

>liability for what you are delivering

While I fear further regulation may introduce unforeseen consequences or inhibit innovation, I also fear doing nothing is proving to have problems as well. Regulations need to be written by people with the knowledge to be very precise about how things are done; we don't want mandatory ISP deep packet inspection (I already get letters from my cable company about HBO torrents that I download).
I agree.

It is, however, true that there are many cases where intelligence agencies research, develop, and weaponize vulnerabilities in products without informing the pertinent companies. Stuxnet is one of many examples.
Basically that the entire point of something like Inbox seems to be to sift out what you want. We just don't go so far as to call stuff that you actually signed up for spam. We do want it to be easily ingored, though. And, at the end of the day, I'm not sure what the difference between my spam folder and my trash folder is. Add in my various "dumb subscription" folders, and they are basically the same.
I am sorry, Soviet education did not produce better results. The result of Soviet education is modern Russia, which is a banana republic with nukes.
When I posted that, the only other replies were fawning about this, and this was as I said instantly downvoted. Sure, it "doesn't add to the discussion", it adds to a discussion about the discussion you don't want to have. Oh well, that's fine, but I stand by my post and would do it again, pile on it all you want. Anyone who thinks this site could possibly be 100% free from PR people has my condolences, and if you think that doesn't matter, then I wonder why you think any of this matters.
But wouldn't a plateu in performance also cause a plateu in record setting? I suppose if it proves that records continue to be broken without gains in performance than random chance is likely at play.

An aside, thanks for the EVT reference. Something new to learn.
Beside the maintainer painful time, I find it interesting. We always see that FOSS is about freedom, if you don't agree, you can pick your own, fork, adapt ... except when a change impacts too much. The whole ecosystem is now changing forcing people to accept something too different, that's how things ends up emotional.
Seems that Godwin's Law needs to be updated for 2014. As online discussion grows longer, the probability of doxxing and death threats approaches 1. And the standard corollary is the side which doxxes and issues death threats first automatically loses the argument.
the result of Soviet education is that Apple capitalization is greater than the entire Russian stock market
Reading Item 20. Worm Holes, after watching Interstellar, is really intriguing and thought-provoking
Upon reflection, I don't think this is a systemd problem -- which is to say, many other distros (not even ones sponsored by Red Hat -- Arch, SuSE, Mageia, NixOS, etc.) have managed to switch to systemd as a default without this kind of a fuss. It's only Debian where this kind of a shitstorm has kicked off -- even Gentoo, which has been a rather vocal systemd holdout, offers systemd and doesn't seem to have this kind of political infighting about it. Now, yes, Debian and its downstreams have a large part of the Linux userbase, so there's apt to be more attention paid to it. But I'm starting to think this is a Debian problem, not a systemd problem.

And the reason I think that is because this isn't a question of whether or not people do or don't use systemd. It's a question of who is going to do the work to ensure that people who choose not to use systemd can continue to use popular packages like GNOME, etc. And to this end, Ian Jackson is leading a vocal group that is willing to use ANY means at hand -- the Technical Committee, General Resolutions, whatever -- in order to cudgel Debian package maintainers and upstream software into doing the work that they think needs to be done in order to support their desire not to use systemd. The problem in a volunteer project like Debian, forcing volunteers to do work they don't want to doesn't lead to the volunteers doing the work you insist they should do, it leads to volunteers leaving. And the upstreams are not going to respond to Jackson's quite frankly childish attempts to bully them into continuing to support sysvinit from now until the end of time. And until Jackson and his backers step into the breach to actually write freaking code to do what they want to instead of politicking to try and force others to write they code they want, it's going to continue to drag the Debian project into this kind of a mess.
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other screencasts here http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScreencasts ;)
Cornell's robot chef learns, cooks to your taste preferences
> the majority of the Japanese voting public don't want immigration

The vast majority of the American public don't want it either, but businesses do, so it happens anyway.
Great guys I saw you've changed your website and it looks fantastic but I am still willing to see more about your solution, I mean you guys are posing yourself well and I will say this is going to be popular among home owners! I already got your emails and I am looking forward to your updates!
Ask HN: Can You Recommend an Online Mentoring Service?
Can anyone recommend an online service that pairs students or otherwise new users of technology with verified or otherwise screened experts that field? I have seen many sites that attempt to do this - but interested in user feedback as to which ones have seemed to have the most reputable community of experts.

Thanks!
~$ grep -r 'rc\.local' /lib/systemd/system
/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service:# systemd-rc-local-generator if /etc/rc.local is executable.
/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service:Description=/etc/rc.local Compatibility
/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service:ConditionFileIsExecutable=/etc/rc.local
/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service:ExecStart=/etc/rc.local start
Does IE even support HSTS?