skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that paranoia causes you to assign meanings and interpretations that aren't reasonable. We haven't seen any emails, only the OP's brief, vague description of them. And even if they do exist, there is a huge difference between sending a threatening email and tapping a phone.

In the Reddit thread I linked elsewhere, someone thought they had "objective evidence" of intruders and drones in their house, because they were seizing on tiny details -- a tape dispenser not where they remembered it, an airplane flying overhead, bumps and clicks on an audio recording -- and assigning them the worst possible interpretation.

Likewise, the fact that the OP is seeing events like "the phone company's tech support was slow to respond to my questions" as part of the conspiracy is a huge red flag.
What is the purpose of money? Why was money invented?
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No. There is no difference between voting/not, bush/obama, this/that in my day to day life. If I thought a politician would make meaningful changes, I'd vote for him or her.
This is especially relevant internationally: people in the West often forget that i.e. China has tons of mountains and much more limited transport infrastructure.
Perhaps the wikipedia article on Black Nationalism [1] or a more recent article on the alliance (!) between the black panthers and the American Nazi Party [2]. You're better off reading early 70s reportage books, though; I'm far too young to remember the 70s, but my parents had old Doonesbury strips around, but as I remember that their resident Black Panther character was wavering between wanting to be included and not wanting to associate with 'whitey'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_nationalism#Malcolm_X

[2] http://www.vice.com/read/when-malcolm-x-met-the-nazis-000062...
> A better way to say the same thing is "Easy problems get solved first".

This is a fallacy and undecidable. We can't evaluate the "hardness" of the problem or it would be solved already. Polio was WORTH CURING. It's not entirely clear fusion isn't just a pipe dream when we already are investing (and getting great returns) on renewable energy. Is it worth it? It's impossible to say (hello Hume), but we should at least be attempting to put timelines on solid goals to evaluate how shitty we are at guessing how much we should invest for what we understand.
> I had to return that game because it was totally unplayable on a 2009 iMac with Radeon 5850. That should be plenty of computer

Skylines came out only this year. 6 years is a long time in the gaming world. I wouldn't expect to play many games from this year on any computer from 2009.
I'd much rather they ban obnoxious high powered LED animated displays. At least billboards don't blind you.
Computer Science is now the top major fro women at Stanford.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10366681
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I can only offer anecdotes, but at my highschool the burnouts were burnouts before they ever touched pot
Why would you argue that your library is secure? Since it seems to be based on RC4, what is done to protect against the known weaknesses of RC4? (And why did you pick RC4 as a base, despite it's known weaknesses, especially at the start of the cipherstream?)

Your "initialisation_vector" is simply derived from system time, not exported (so how is anyone supposed to use it decrypt?) and not even properly used as far as I can tell.
> "computing" was a secretaries job.

Correct, that was the case with a number of the roles. Those roles were sort of like the modern day CRUD development and things that (mostly) get automated away.

However, Grace Hopper[1], Betty Holberton[2], Frances Spence[3], along with around a half dozen of the original programmers of the ENIAC[4] would disagree that they were only filling a secretary like position.

In reference to my previous comment, I mostly found it surprising that these pioneers didn't lead to more women pursuing CS early on. I suppose it has more to do with the cultural trends that came after the war as you said yourself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Spence

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
Earlier article by the same author:

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/cargo-drones-in-africa/

"The continent’s shortfall on annual public infrastructure spending is $50 billion and rising. There is no money for tunnels and not enough for bridges and bypasses, let alone simple road maintenance. Paving secondary roads is more expensive per kilometer than paving longer arterials and costs have risen sharply in the last decade, with frequent budget overruns of 100 percent or more. Economists have estimated that $1 spent on roads in Africa returns $4 in productivity. How much better value would $1 spent on cargo drone routes be?"
Arizona recently outlawed that specific type of billboard.
Then read http://designinganalogchips.com/.
If some of the predicted timelines about excess energy generation from nuclear fusion turn out to be true then it'll work out to be cheaper than coal, even in the short-to-medium term after that goal is reached. It's too early to write such predictions off, unless you know something I don't know about the future.
I would love to go with The Art of Computer Programming.. but I am already confused reading that page. Is this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Computer-Programming-Fundamental...

part 1 or is this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Programming-Fascicle-MMIX-M...
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A ban is pretty harsh, how about taxing them heavily enough that they almost disappear? $1MM/billboard/year might be about right.

The reason people are asking for a ban of billboards is that they impose heavy externalities: they're distracting, ugly, et cetera. Capture those externalities rather than ban them.
I can't speak to Google ATAP or Disney, but getting a job at MSR almost certainly requires a PhD. HCI is an incredibly broad field, though: do you have more specific interests? Did you do any research as part of your MS? Broadly speaking, a PhD is only going to help you to the extent you want or need to participate in the academic community, for example by publishing papers. That would be the case at MSR and other research labs, but not so much in the majority of industry jobs.

(I'm an HCI PhD student at Stanford.)
I agree but I don't see how this is relevant. Electricity in California is generated predominately from natural gas, a slightly cleaner burning fossil fuel than gasoline.
>android doesn't seem to make much of dent in apple's profits here

Of course it does. Imagine the profits if iOS had 90% market share as Windows once did (or still does) on the PC.

Your point about IBM is a good one though. I think the reason why vertical integration can be dangerous is that the entire platform is only as strong as its weakest link. You don't want great industrial design being held hostage by, say, bad batteries or slow CPUs.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but fuck it.

I'd replace billboards with graffiti in Portland any day. I can't stand that billboards are plastered all over the place, but one streak of paint on a building left unscrubbed will result in the person owning that building getting fines from the city. I miss the feel of an real urban environment and having real graffiti on walls and over passes.
That's dangerously close to Citizen's United (with unlimited money buying "speech"). No, I prefer an outright ban to an economic hack.
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So which solution did you adopt in the end?
I see this as an echo of the makers and takers debate.

"Give me a job." "MAKE me feel comfortable." "I am at your mercy." ... This the subtext I read. Other people want to create their own world; when someone tells them no or gets in their way, the attitude is "fuck you" not "change to accommodate me."

This reaction may be biologically ingrained as a difference in the sexes; I am not sure- But I rarely, if ever, come across articles about women who have been fed up with some job and formed their own companies with other fed up women and strove to put their former coworkers/employers out of business, whereas for hackers "I'll show you!" seems a very common motivator.

We should be trying to give women (and men) more confidence, integrity and fortitude, and quit with the shaming and guilt tactics.
> As much as I hate advertising, how exactly would you reconcile such a ban with the first amendment in the US?

This is a solved problem; SCOTUS has already ruled on various aspects of this[1].

[1] http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/billboards
I'm really not an authority on this, but to answer the question of "do I need a PhD", my view is that it depends on which 'part' of HCI you want to do.

Do you want to work on Project Soli at ATAP? Which part, the actual hardware / Radio antenna design? Then a PhD in analog design might be required to be qualified. Do you want to do the signal interpretation / analysis to detect gestures? Maybe a strong background in signals, filtering or even machine learning may be required.

HCI work can involve a lot of specific specialization which often requires these research / industry giants to demand a strong testament of your qualifications. Although not required, a PhD is often an easy way for them to see that.

If it is the more 'high-level' stuff, I'm not sure, as sometime a 'PhD in HCI' itself may be required (although I don't know too much what a 'PhD in HCI' entails)

Source: Experiences with HCI PhD's at UC Berkeley
The U.S. Supreme Court reconciles it by allowing "time, place, and manner" restrictions.

There are many times, places and manners available to speak, other than billboards.
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Yeah! Excellent points about those details. My not very artistic mind missed them altogether. But like you hint at, that could be a good thing when the art here serves more as a medium than the end product.

TheSkimm is solving a really interesting problem and taking a note from the Daily Show. Package the news into bite size segments and leverage comedy + everyday vernacular + cultural references to inform and hopefully educate people.

I don't use them (my girlfriend does). I wonder if they've explored a visual delivery mechanism like this article. Could be an interesting project either way.
This is a very detailed article, and I appreciate it and will need to study it carefully.

But I think that the major argument it is making is "systemd is a mediocre service manager; similar tools existed before systemd, and were better." That is a very different argument from "we would be better off with sysvinit," which seems to be the primary argument I see in practice: if you're arguing things like "do one thing and do it well," "shell scripts are great and debuggable," "init should reap children and nothing else," "there's too much code in pid1," "I don't want to learn something new," etc., you're making that form of argument.

If there is general consensus from studied opponents of systemd that something systemd-like is an obviously good idea, great. Let's move on, acknowledge the network effects of systemd, and build something that can feasibly be the shinier, newer, better, securer systemd. Which might even be based on an existing system like s6. But then the path forward has to be either improving systemd or replacing it, not continuing with sysvinit.

I am in practice a pro-systemd person, but that's only because my realistic alternatives, for my use case, are sysvinit and Upstart. I have no idea how I'd start to build a system that used something like s6. I would happily admit there is extensive room for improvement in systemd, but we UNIX folks have been working with worse-is-better and rough-consensus-and-running-code for decades.

If the general consensus is that a systemd-style service manager is great, but it should not be pid 1, that's an argument worth making, but I don't see much focus in this article on that.

If the general consensus is that everything can be done with sysvinit, this article doesn't make that case at all. (But I suspect that's not the general consensus.)
We've known this for a while, it boils down to: barbies.

Fixing this problem is really, really hard. Assuming I gave my daughters equal access to both barbies and chemistry kits, which would they choose? Kids want to fit in with their friends. Boy nerds get beaten up, girl nerds get ostracised. What does that lead to? The child choosing their gender stereotype (applies both ways) so that they can fit in. It's what the herd is doing and results in girls avoiding engineering and boys avoiding, say, nursing.

It's a systemic disease and is highly contagious. One possible solution is an elementary school where the entrance requirement is determined by the parents: girls get barbies AND chemistry kits. Boys get toy cars AND sewing kits. Their social group shouldn't be determined by gender, rather interest.
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have ones doubts."
So the salient point to me seem to be:

Girls are put off by how computer culture styles itself in nerdy ways.

Ok, i can kind of get that. On the other hand, i don't like it much because she seems to be saying "hiding positive expressions about things you like could be helpful".

I'm all for increasing diversity, but that should happen by bringing in more things and widening horizons. If that means "Sex and the City", then yes, please.

The article does also kind of lose its red thread when she compares offputting styling with outright attacks against her. Maybe she's trying to be less contentious by not outright calling them out as bullshit that should get people shitcanned by HR. But really, that's what should be said about that, not comparisons with star wars posters.

All that said, i like the bit she mentions at the end, about introducing computing earlier. If done emphatically it can have a real chance of leveling the playing field.
Spot on!

I wonder if the developers had set their mind on building a city builder game before SimCity's non-success or did they realize the market gap and go for it reactively.

They already had a pretty decent city and traffic simulation engine in their earlier Cities in Motion games (which I didn't like nearly as much, perhaps because I was really bad at it). So it's feasible (but still awe-inspiring) if they put Skylines together in that timeframe.
You'll be wanting the first one, volume 1, and also Volume 2 for data structures. These are classics, still relevant, and will give you a good grounding to pursue the more recent offerings suggested by other answerers here.

Fascicles is a new effort by Knuth and is more hardware oriented.
You can work at MSR as a research engineer (basically, you make software to help the researchers). You're a support role, but can still do some of the research under the direction of someone with a Ph.D.
So, we should only have jobs that build things that people who make $40K can afford? That is a pretty short-sighted way to make economic decisions.

Well, Americans should have sympathy for the workers who spent lifetimes learning crafts that just disappeared at the stroke of a politicians pen.
Apparently I was the first person ever to attempt using dnsmasq to block ads (Fri, Oct 27, 2006). In 2006 I reported a bug named "reading /etc/hosts takes 6 minutes" :-)

http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/200...

Before every new dns entry was naively compared sequentially with current dataset, the fix was probably a hashtable.
Better don't tell people on medication to stop taking them for a week or two, and if it doesn't work go to a professional.
Seems to be with your standard of posting. I gave up with you. No point trying to teach a leftie where they are going wrong. The PDF by the way uses words like "cost saving" and "efficiency" quite liberally.
https://vimeo.com/115154289
So only the ultra-rich can advertise through them?
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Bossrat, you're speaking in platitudes, and being vague. No there are not many explanations for multi day long psychosis. In fact, psychosis from Adderal and all those other things you mentioned is a more rare side-effect than the percentage of people who will get Schizophrenia to begin with. So please, fully understand a topic before you interject.

Please realize Schizophrenia affects 1.1% of the American population, and that's just the general form, and that which is diagnosed. The real number is likely higher. It is neither an 'extreme diagnosis' nor is it that rare.
if they are shown a classroom (whether virtual or real) decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-fiction books, computer parts and tech magazines, but with a more neutral décor — art and nature posters, coffee makers, plants and general-interest magazines

This would seem to be a bit of a bait-and-switch... If you aren't interested in "computer parts and tech magazines" then what exactly is it about computing that makes you want to do it?

"For the money" is a valid answer of course, a job's a job for most people, but let's call a spade a spade.
Please direct these questions to a psychiatrist. I doubt many of us here replying are qualified to provide guidance on what you are experiencing and why. And ignore the name dropping of various mental illnesses and speculations by others; getting in contact with qualified people and calmly explaining your situation and providing evidence of what you saw / feel is the best option.
Go talk to a doctor. Strangers on the internet with anecdotes are not qualified for this.

Never be embarrassed if you think you might be having a temporary psychotic break or experiencing heretofore unknown symptoms of schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder. It will do no good sitting around and wondering.

Getting help is the only thing that will help you regain confidence in yourself. And maybe it's nothing and you were right all along.
I suspect vertical integration is more efficient and wins out, so long as you accurately read the market and don't throw your advantage away.

IBM didn't bring the personal computer to market early enough, which left the door open to Apple, Commodore and others. Then they signed the MS-DOS licensing deal... and the rest is history.

In other words, until apple makes a stupid mistake, they're unstoppable.
If you want to know what such a world is like, go to Cuba. It's a beautiful thing.
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I call BS on the ground that things being around longer doesn't necessarily make them harder to remove.

At a minimum it takes $20 worth of paint and an hour to make a passive billboard less obnoxious. This objection is silly.
A new version of the ARRL Handbook is published every year. It's a staple book to have on your shelf if you do any radio electronics work.

I never did HAM radio, but when I was in school I ran a pirate radio station (with a transmitter I designed), and I pulled that book out pretty often.
It may be harmful to stop abruptly. Talk to your doctor.
"Boys get toy cars AND sewing kits."

So to fix problems you would screw Boys aka male gender ?

How much retard are you ?
Checking the game's subreddit totally sold it to me https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/top/ it's amazing how advanced the game is. Basically, it doesn't impose any limits. Just like in Democracy3 you can build and test your politic ideas, here you can do the same with urban planning, etc.
Patiently waited (if you add a game to steam wishlist, you get an email when it goes on sale, great marketing idea, win-win for all parties involved) for a sale and grabbed it the last weekend :)
The real question is what keeps men out of women? Sites like nytimes.
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I was just thinking about this today. My proposal was to replace them with behavioral nudges[0]. Things like "Traveling the speed limit saves X lives and gets you home faster[1]." Basically, they'd be gentle ways of making people more conscious and aware of the road and themselves.

But of course, who gets to pick what the billboards say? And I'm sure nobody would go for it if it were slogans from the State Dept. of Nudges...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book)

[1] Real data of course. Citations needed.
Isn't the first step to see how you feel if you get plenty of sleep and stop taking Adderall for a week? Horses, not zebras?
Yeah, if we're to be allowing advertising like this then at least smaller businesses should be able to capitalize on it.
A page fault is going to cost way way more then 1000 cycles, it's going to be, at bare minimum(for major faults), your storage medium's read latency, so 100 microseconds or more. I'd think in many circumstances hitting a 3.3 microsecond latency to avoid a 100 microsecond latency is def. a good trade. There might be an issue if you have to repeatedly pay that 3.3 microsecond vs. one time the 100 microsecond, but that's getting into things that we can't really know without knowing more specs about the stuff.

And I was more speaking about using it as a blazing fast non-volatile "ram" drive. I know a standard ram drive is simple, but it'd be neat to install os and programs and such onto a drive with 2 order of magnitude better performance then a high-end SSD.
I can't really imagine Tokyo without the billboards. It's too wrapped up in the aesthetic for me. (Not that I think that should override the preferences of whatever people in tokyo want to do.)
I know I am in a great work place when I don't know all the characters in Star Wars but still feel included.
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Thanks for the tip (and I think I might actually have it written down in a file somewhere), but this is missing the point. I shouldn't have to do this -- it should be automatic. Why? Because it's required for so many different tasks. For example: Source maps in the web world.

EDIT: ... and it's actually possibly(!) even worse in the web world where you often have a ridiculous number of levels to your "transformation". Personally, I have never got "bower (source) -> grunt -> ts/(scala.js+closure) -> babel -> es5" (with source maps) to ever work even semi-reliably.

(I know we have too many things in this pipeline, but it's what we have to deal with.)
Their desire to not work in technology keeps them out of tech.
Everyone emphasizes the privacy/tracking reasons for ad blocking and mentions the annoyance/performance reasons in passing.

I think it's important to point out that, when you ask people they mention two other defenses of ad blocking:

1. They hate advertising in general. They would block it everywhere if they could. They know it's engineered to manipulate them, often with lifestyle advertising it's engineered to manipulate them into feeling worse and promising to sell them the cure, but it's always engineered to manipulate them in some way. The psychological techniques are very good, better to just block it than falsely assume you can be exposed and then will it into having no effect.

2. It's their computer so it will do whatever they want it to. Remove ads, remove other parts of your site, remix your site, redesign it, remove all your branding completely, etc. These are the more technical uses with a lot of plugins/userscripts but when you show it off to less technical users they want it too, although it's not available to them yet.

It has become a good litmus tests to see who mentions the problems with advertising in general and who sticks with the constructed narrative of "Is it OK to steal content to protect your private information?".

I agree, I would have expected Mozilla (even though I know they are ad supported) to not fail this particular test.
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Downvoted, that's more like it. :)