skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed with most critiques of KA that they set up a straw man of what KA is trying to accomplish, and then they attack that, almost always without giving a better alternative.

The fact is KA is a great tool for learning many subjects, and will only continue to improve. The biggest take aways should be:

- spaced repetition of subject matter is extremely useful for long term memorization
- bite sized, repeatable lessons allow students to digest more and "rewind" over parts of lectures they may have missed
- "gameification" and small rewards are useful for getting students to keep pursuing a subject
- students shouldn't move on to more advanced subjects until they've mastered a particular foundational skill

No teaching tool or method is going to be perfect, but I think KA gives parents, educators and most importantly students a really useful tool for self-paced learning that traditional methods can't easily offer.
As an introvert, it's fascinating to me how there are people who look forward to those awful team lunches and office birthday cakes. I feel exhausted just thinking about those things.
I interpreted the article as making exactly the opposite of your point: because Khan Academy is limited to automated grading, they can only ask standardized-test style questions: solve an equation, select a multiple-choice answer, etc. Meanwhile, the Common Core standards emphasize argumentation (i.e. proofs), formulating equations, and other high-level skills that are harder to test directly but are much more important to actually getting a deep understanding.

Common Core is not a set of tests; it's just a curriculum that sets some basic standards for what students ought to learn. It's reasonable to be concerned about standardized testing as a means for assessing whether those standards are being met, but it doesn't sound like you actually have any objection to the Common Core curriculum.
Could this spawn a new music genre/industry (torture music)? We truly live in a bizarre world. It would certainly make for a good character background in a dystopian movie: a megacorp X office worker who produces torture music at day but leads a second life at night, rediscovering his love for music at underground bars where any type of music is being played (despite the the strict totalitarian government censorship laws).
There might be opportunity for lower energy, speculating if the SoC has better dynamic power abilities, and even without it, can finish it's work earlier and go back to deep sleep longer.
As an introvert who works in an office (and works remote in binges), just being in the vicinity of people is good for overall mental health. You don't have to interact with people to be energized by them (all the better, of course if you do). Like walking down a busy city block, energy can be absorbed by just being near people.

Open plan workspaces tend to get a bad rap on HN. My challenge to developers here is to stop relying on the headphones to block out noise to focus. It can be done. You don't need to be in a "monastery" to work well.
...Which only helps you if you discard compatibility, unless I'm mistaken.

The question remains of how to detect overflow on add in portable C code.
> No, your rights to use copyrighted content under the law are zero (excluding fair use). No, your rights to use copyrighted content under the law are zero (excluding fair use).

No. You can "perform" the work as long as the performance is not "public." For instance, watching a DVD on your laptop by yourself at home is a "performance," but it's not public. This is a perfectly valid use of copyrighted content.
So, no language worth it's salt completely hides how the computer works from you (again, except for certain members of the FP family, or declarative languages like Prolog or SQL).

For example, Javascript has a problems when adding ".1+.2". Know why? IEEE754 limitations on double-precision floating-point arithmetic, as implemented in hardware.

Programming languages exist to program the machine, full stop. Everything else is just people faffing about on their thesis defense.

Anyways, if you didn't like Elixir--probably because you don't have the experience yet to see why it's awesome--that's okay: learn C. :)
Consider that in the late 90's cellphone penetration was still low enough that not being allowed cellphones was fairly common, and certainly not something anyone would react to.

Not being allowed to leave the house after school hours, or use the internet is still a fairly common situation for kids in many sects that are not considered problematic enough to interfere with.

What you describe as "being kept captive", others would consider protecting their children from corrupting outside influences (I'd like to emphasise that I absolutely don't think that is right).

That the stepfather in this case seems to have been motivated by hiding from the authorities doesn't make much difference - the point is most schools have students that are in similar situations, so it's not something most schools would see as exceptional and something they can interfere with.

It's a difficult tradeoff in terms of child protection, because the traumatic experiences of being taken into care or disrupted by lots of interference can easily become worse than what the interference is meant to fix, and because the moment you start passing moral judgement over peoples parenting, you're in for a crazy struggle over how it is acceptable for people to raise their kids.
Jeez. So do they have any proposed solution beyond "government intervention"? It's a fact that Google isn't going to pay to host Spanish news, nor can the government force them to do that. So either they need to

1. amend the law saying that Google is an exception, OR

2. amend the law to make payment for news snippets no longer an "inalienable right", OR

3. repeal the law.

Which in the end brings back the exact situation that was there before the law.

EDIT: Just realized that number 1 doesn't count. I don't think you can make an inalienable right and an exception to that right at the same time.
Jean-Louis raises some good questions about Intel. They aren't new questions, and the shape has changed, but they are good ones. When I worked there in the 80's I was validating a graphics chip (the 82786) which was a really cool video chip. And tried to get Intel to consider these "Unix workstation" things and they couldn't see past the risk of harming their Microsoft relationship.

To be fair, Intel has made a ton of money and they are widely regarded as the premier chip manufacturing company, standing strong while people like Motorola (the Freescale part of it), TI, NEC, Fairchild, and National faded. And by that measure they are an unqualified gorilla in the market place.

So it is interesting to see things like ARM effectively encroaching into their markets. I'm typing this on a desktop with an x86 processor, but I have way more machines interacting with me running some OS on an ARM processor in my house than I do a x86 machines. That bodes ill for the future.

I've been playing with a Lenovo x86 based Android tablet. Its nice, but it is no better nor worse than an ARM based tablet. And apparently Lenovo was being paid $51 each for them to make these. You cannot retake market share being 'just as good as' and a bribe. You really need a compelling reason to get people to switch to your processor. I wonder what that will be for Intel.
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Surely you still use the keyboard to switch keyboard/mouse focus? But instead of Alt-tab another key combo?
agree!

I wonder if in a worst-case scenario (if you'd picture a matrix style authoritarian and Orwellian society) ... these bugs could be the only things that the "common man" has in order to escape the tentacles of surveillance or to throw a proverbial spanner into the works of such a system.
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> if you are interested in maintaining civilization.

I think "the status quo" would be a bit more accurate.
Khan Academy isn't perfect. But it improves every year. I like it for what it is, and have high hopes for what it might become.
Someone's clearly never appreciated Merzbow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGzrL8J0t-c
Well, it's been irritating for NPM to at least me. And presumably all the projects that have reinvented namespacing using dashes in their project names.
I work both on triple monitor and single monitor+workspace setups and still prefer the triple monitor for a single reason: you cannot put workspaces next to each other and get an overview of multiple windows at the same time..
Just saying it might work for you, but it's by no means a proper replacement for all of us
aswanson has the right interpretation. Wilson is in an SUV, so he's sitting up near Browns upper torso/neck/head. It's pretty easy to manipulate someone from the back of your neck...those muscles aren't really strong...and Wilson is also the same size as Brown. So it's not hard to see wilson reaching out, grabbing Brown by the neck, and pulling his head in through the window. Especially if Brown was taken by surprise.

I didn't mean he pulled his whole body in through the window. That would be very difficult to do!
As long as you use smart arguments, the opposite view is most than welcome. Everybody wants the same, that USA be able to clean and close this hideous and rotten page of his history.

But to declare that something "was charged with horrible crimes", when there was not even the slightest trace of a fair trial, is not an argument, is just to think that the rest of the world is plain stupid.

And to say that: "Some terrorists tell us that other guy was fantasizing with killing people so has been locked for the rest of his life and was his human-toy since them... and I don't see ANY problem with this", is just heartless cynism. What if they just lied to you?.

Currently in my country, with some thousands of evictions a day by the greedy of some "banksters" (formerly rescued by the people) a lot of people fantasize sometimes with a grand piano falling over the Minister of Finance in the most "ItchyScratchiest" way possible and that, after this, he rises and smiles with a denture of white keys, chirping birds around the head and all the stuff.

Boy, these millions of bad people should be locked and chieftly we _must_ assure that they never ever be able to join the jail band!... ;-)
Is that enough to make a national policy change and prohibit Ecstasy?

Here's someone who died because of walking into traffic while wearing an iPod: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1091715/Girl-14-kill... . Should we prohibit listening to music while walking?

Personally, I think both indicate that we should change social policy to reduce the number of cars, have strictly enforced speed limits, and place primary responsibility for such incidents on the driver of the vehicle.

The Dutch road traffic engineer Hans Monderman is famous for his "shared space" urban design, where he would "walk backwards into dense traffic to demonstrate that drivers would be sufficiently human not to run him over."

Why shouldn't we draw that conclusion, instead of prohibiting Ecstasy?
That was a bug and should have been fixed.

Sorry.
Just like legal stuff such as: alcohol, prescription drugs, certain foods, ...
It's cheap enough that one could still get their money's worth out of this while waiting, though :)
Taking a look at the learn-to-code movement and its opportunity in 2015
My guess is that application does actually use a custom language model to get that level of accuracy. As far as I know, Nuance doesn't offer any SDK or API that lets you specify your own language model; They just offer various applications with hardcoded language models.
Dumb question, but which CTF game/mod are you referring to?
With likelihood in mind, how likely is it that a person believes they can grab a holstered gun from a cop, get shot, decide to run at least 150 feet from fear of getting shot again, and then turn into a 'demon' with no fear of gunfire anymore and charge the source of gunfire?
I agree.

The only reason I knew anything about the hardware of the classic Macs at the time was that I was an Amiga user, and Macs were occasionally dragged in on the periphery of the war of the 68k based machines that was primarily an Amiga vs Atari thing.

Beyond knowing it too had a 68k, that it had laughable small screen and was monochrome and cost a ridiculous amount, that was it.

That was despite hanging out at the local computer store every few days, and reading every computer magazine I got my hands on (I can thank Commodore Computing International for a lot the earliest English I learned)

Most PC users of the era certainly had no reason to know much more about Apple than the name Mac, and know it was some other computer.
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> being under duress is a well-known and generally accepted justification for committing a crime

In what jurisdiction? duress (or necessity in general) is only rarely a valid defence in English law.
In Germany all major publisher, including those that fought to get a similar law, signed contracts with Google allowing them to index without pay. All small aggregators and search engines still have to pay so the end result is that Google News Germany is more powerful than before.
I expect something similar in Spain.
I really meant that I prefer JS(Node/IO) over Elixir.
Another similar map: https://flightaware.com/live/
You can, but for LCD monitors non native resolution usually degrades image quality. And basically it means that for that scenario you aren't using what you paid for. So it's something to consider when buying it.
I'm not necessarily a good judge of monitor color quality and accuracy, but to my eye, it's fantastic. I'm normally right in front of it, but my partner is off to the side when we watch something on Netflix, and that angle doesn't seem to adversely affect color.
Ah, but a large percentage of HNers are Americans and thus care more about copyright and money than about torture.
Exactly. It often takes only minutes or even seconds from the time that a client pays to the time that the money is visible in my bank account. That's even the case for a transaction from another european country. Online shopping goes like this: you order a product on a company's website, you select your bank, this redirects you to your bank's website where you authenticate the transaction and click OK. No credit cards involved.
"Essentially no revenue for Mobile and Communications"

While technically correct, this misses the fact that Intel has been making some huge inroads into mobile (particularly tablets). This isn't reflected in revenue because Intel has quite literally been giving them away, lubricating their use to make up for the industry being heavily ARM-centric.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-to-hit-40-million-mobile-...

There are tens of millions of devices out there running Intel chips, and it is lubricating the world for the platform. Right now there are people who are running Android on Intel devices and they have absolutely no idea that they are -- the various Memo Pads, for instance. The Dell Venues.

The Memo Pad ME572C runs an Atom Z3560, a 64-bit x86-64 processor with four cores, SSE4.2, and a powerful onboard graphics solution.

Intel is laying groundwork. Anyone who looks at the revenue number and counts Intel out is being fooled. In a few years I suspect that many of the same people will be crying foul about Intel having bought themselves into a market they missed.
Previous discussion on the closure of Google News in Spain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8732859
Yup, exactly. The only reason it didn't happen in Spain right away is the "inalienable right" clause, so that publisher's couldn't sign away the right to be paid. If that goes away, it'll be the same situation as Germany.
How would you tell it which shared library to dlopen?

Was looking into changing the order of arguments to go the right way 'round. Also changing address refs to be PC-relative, to avoid the relocation phase. Seems pretty straightforward.
I was too young to remember much TI-BASIC but as for "draw pixel" I really enjoyed VGA's "Mode 13" which was very fast, great for making games, even without tricks like page flipping.
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There are a bunch of good comments here already but as someone that's worked as a game developer for years here's my take on it. I do have a few comments on the question itself before I get to my reasons for staying in the game industry.

First, not all game companies are created equal. The example you cited is from a company with a reputation for working long hours in and industry that already has a reputation for working long hours.

Second, compare what you read there to typical start up culture. All of the listed downsides are present to some degree in start ups. Are people more forgiving of this for start ups because of the potential for financial reward?

As someone else mentioned, not everyone sticks around and turnover for junior employees is pretty high.

Most people get into working in games because they love playing games. Making games and playing games are very different activities. I'd call this a necessary but insufficient reason for staying in games. If this is the only reason someone is in the games industry they'll probably, but not necessarily, leave relatively quickly.

Now that I've gotten generalities out of the way here's some reasons why I stay in games.

For me money isn't an issue. I could probably make more doing something else but I make enough to cover my expenses and have a pretty comfortable lifestyle. I'd need a very significant pay raise to consider leaving the industry if that was the main reason to go.

Making games is hard. I like working on challenging things. There's also a very wide variety in the challenges. If you don't like working on one type of challenges there are other challenging problems to work on.

Another big thing for me is the people I get to work with. Because of the wide variety of roles you see people with very different backgrounds making games. Personally, I prefer this and the impacts it has on company culture over the more tech heavy companies. I'm also very fortunate to work with incredibly talented people every day at my current job.
Indeed I hadn't! I certainly couldn't listen to that for hours but it would make a good soundtrack for a David Lynch movie :)
Can Sweden break the taboo?
Can Khan Academy ever become something other than Khan Academy?

That's a profound question for me.
This is the big insight. Instead of trying to inherit code, figure out what that code does that interesting, and allow that code to do the interesting things without being inside the class. For example, imagine your class has a "WriteToFile" method. Instead of that, it should just have a method to return its representation, delegating the responsibility of writing to a file to something else. (Of course, the fact that a file can be written to should also be one of those "interesting things", and the thing that writes shouldn't care that it's backed by a file.)

Instead of

foo.WriteToFile("/tmp/foo")

You might write:

file.Write(foo.Representation()).

I promise that most inheritance in the real world is attempting to reuse something like "WriteToFile". "I wouldn't want to copy-paste the file-writing code, so I'll inherit from something that can write itself to the file." No. Don't do that.
I'll even add a $1 "Safe Departures Fee".
Call me an optimist, but I doubt that. The lesser of two evils, yes, but good? No. Add in a bit of "if I do not let it happen, I'll be voted out and somebody else will order it" (it's a rare politician who dares to tell the public that, unfortunately, there's little that can be done to fix a problem) and "it's better that a good guy like me minimizes the amount of badness than that someone truly evil does it", and we get where we are now.
The writer went for a little too much pathos, in my opinion, and missed the bigger story: DCs are the modern equivalent to the pyramids. An amazing amount of coordinated and precisely measured work goes on there.

There is a great human story here, no doubt, but there's also a great story for hackers. Would have loved to read that one.
Try the PCEngines APU board! http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm

The only downside is it uses Realtek NICs instead of Intel ones. Otherwise it's pretty much perfect.
You can stick an USB NIC or two in it, if 100M ethernet is enough.
ASCAP's own page is strangely silent on the topic of jails; the closest I could find were 'Endurance Events' - http://www.ascap.com/licensing/types/endurance-marathon-tria...

See the complete list here: http://www.ascap.com/licensing/licensefinder
>Moved to Germany over an year ago.

From where?
Do you think anyone who aspires to work at the leading edge of their chosen field is smug?
I was able to get 60 Hz by simply enabling DP1.2 on the monitor, but then I had two virtual displays, which was quite annoying. The patches to make the whole stack properly support this sort of monitor are not quite there last I checked (a few weeks ago). Dave Airlie, who's responsible for most of the work on this at all levels (from the kernel through through the window manager) has things mostly working, but it's not ready for prime time. He ended up giving up on doing everything entirely in the kernel as he had originally tried, so now everything up the stack to the window manager needs patching. He has experimental support in GNOME. I may attempt stretching myself and seeing if I can get similar changes into kwin while I'm on winter break, but I've found 30 Hz to be entirely bearable; most of the time I don't even notice.
Not quite - the subtler point of that is this civilization versus a civilization, which in turn is part of the larger point that civilization is a made thing (and continuously, at that - like Sartre's consciousness) that we have the option of doing differently. That your cultural opinions are opinions, not facts, and that most of "consensus reality" has that kind of relationship with actual reality.

Like when economists talk about the Market like it's some oracular weather system instead of a bunch of things people made and do.

This is also the actual meaning behind the "drop out" of "turn on, tune in, drop out" - not to leave all civilization entirely, but to leave /this/ civilization in order to participate in your own.
That may be one part, but somehow that should rather mean that most big-city corps should hire really good 40 year olds to telecommute and be paid less than the 20 year olds in whatever tech mecca this may be taking place. But that doesn't seem to happen in my experience.

Another reason of course is the ever changing tech landscape; when I had 5 years under my belt C# had existed 5 years and I had 5 years of C# experience. I had more pro experience with C# than anyone, including of course most of those a lot older than me. The takeaway is that the exaggerated focus on experience with specific tech keywords means that young age often trumps longer industry experience, simply because the young dev may have started just as Tech X took off. This obsession with resume keywords will go away as our industry matures. Companies that don't realize that won't be around long.
I don't get it. Why use a VM and not download the desktop application: https://desktop.telegram.org/ ?
There is one more issue with many opiates, which is actually inherent to the drugs and not to the regulatory/market context - the relatively quick gain and loss of tolerance, and the uncertainty this introduces as to the actual physiological effects even of a known dosage.

This is why there are many opiate overdoses where the victim is starting to use after being sober for some time - they go back to the doses that were normal for them not so long ago, but their body chemistry has changed enough that those dosages are now dangerous.

See for example http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7396/959
Good, it's even better

Now those imbeciles realize they shot themselves in the foot?

If they want Google to stay they should pay them. It's that simple