skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be far more focus on software apprenticeships, which is why I welcome the flurry of development bootcamps that have been springing up over the last couple of years. The best of them know that they're only really getting people to a minimum level, and work hard to place their graduates with companies that are able to commit to spending a year or two continuing to train them, rather than just throwing people with 12 weeks development experience in at the deep end.
Sorry, but in what universe is it considered rude to not talk to random strangers who interrupt you in the street?

I certainly don't think you should hold this experience against him. Hopefully he doesn't hold it against you.
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I don't think that's an issue, they have enough data that as soon as you can find one person they can probably extrapolate the rest of them. It's kind of creepy but whatever.
Imagine if someone were able to fund a service to provide financial benefits based on inverting the scoring....

More realistically: It provides a (though presumably risky) means of identifying who the Chinese government is concerned about, which would potentially be of interest to dissidents as well... (risky because I presume they'll be keeping a close eye on accesses to this system, and because it of course would be trivial for them to ensure there's plenty of "plants" there to cause problems if dissidents were to use it to find likeminded people)
> Tearing down homes immediately destroys value

Decreasing the zoning on land so less housing can be built immediately destroys value. That land can now house 10% of the people it previously was able to house.
What was your issue?
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> and software in particular is much more of a craft in practice than engineering or science.

Definitely agree. I have some experience (8 years) and most of the software development jobs I've seen aren't "engineering" at all, and shouldn't require higher education.
For all the articles waffling about the possibility of trans-atlantic trade you really need to read far into the article to find the most likely source. tldr ....

> Are there any plant sources known to have been available to the Ancient Egyptians between 1070BC - 395AD containing nicotine, cocaine, or THC?

> SB: It is known that cocaine is the principal alkaloid of the leaves of Erythroxylum coca. Cocaine is present also in other Erythroxylum species native to South Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius in amounts less than those found in Erythroxylum coca. However, it is possible that in antiquity a way to concentrate cocaine was known....

Not nearly as interesting as the two major pyramid building civilizations trading, but far more likely.

A list of plants containing cocaine:

http://sun.ars-grin.gov:8080/npgspub/xsql/duke/chemdisp.xsql...

If the article is true, those ancients must have been eating shit loads of Erythroxylum leaves to have the same cocaine levels in their bodies as modern day addicts (which makes me wonder if they are measuring the levels incorrectly).
The one book I saw in her list of publications[0], Universal linear algebra for students of mathematics and physics, seems to be awaiting publication, supposedly from Birkhäuser (a division of Springer), although I was unable to locate any reference to it on their site (possibly because the site sucks). It seems to be currently used, in pdf form, as a text for a course or two. I'd love to get my hands on a copy.

[0] https://math.berkeley.edu/~harrison/Publications.html
here they compare stoic virtues with Hindu notions of dharma. The author speculates that Stoics were somehow influenced by Hindu thought. Maybe a new interest in Stoicism is partly inspired by exposure to Hinduist beliefs.

http://www.studiesincomparativereligion.com/public/articles/...
I'm 100% on the side of Berkeley's math department here. In my opinion, the way AC has gone about things reflects upon his personality and why he is (probably) disliked by members of the math department. Read through what he calls his "evidence" to support his claims and you will see that there is more than enough reason to doubt his claims.

All the comments about Berkeley not caring about undergraduate math education are far from reality. Sure there are a number of professors who don't take teaching seriously. But there are a large number of them who do, and are very good at it. Among them are Ogus, Hald, Christ, Evans, and Rezakhanlou, all named by AC as people having to do with his dismissal.
You could also get the other edge of the sword like with the social popularity ratings satirized in the TV show Community's "MeowMeowBeenz" app episode -- of which the real-life example, the recently released app "Peeple", was lambasted in the media recently.
> This is exactly what the speaker seems to be missing. Building homes required significant money in the first place; there's no such thing as a free house.

You do realize the speaker is advocating for developers, who have the money (typically through financing, which is fairly straightforward to get if you are a competent developer), to be allowed to build the projects they propose. Not for housing to magically appear out of the ether.
could be a way for loan shark sand payday lone companies to work out who to target - a government provided sucker list if you like.
Great points Denny. Btw, have you thought about soliciting gun research on experiment.com?
Northumbria Uni has 'HTML, XHTML & CSS for dummies' and 'PHP & MySQL for dummies' on the reading list of their Computing and Information Technology MSc.

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/courses/c...

One of the programming modules in the same degree is titled 'Programme Design & Implementation'.

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/courses/c...
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Protip: Always get a referral if you want to meet busy people!
> How can I evaluate my mental condition objectively?

You can't. You need a third party (such as a psychologist) to definitively tell you what's what. It's super easy to fool and mislead ones self.

I once thought my girlfriend hacked into my computer and corrupted it somehow; I lost everything. In hindsight, that was a crazy thing to think, but at the time it made sense given who she was and what was technically capable and all that.

What one must do, is separate what is possible (being hacked) from what is likely (computer crash) from what is absurd (girlfriend did it). This is not always easy, and not always straightforward, and not always something you can and should do by yourself.

Also... stress is a biggie. aderall likely won't help things either. People have lapses, behave irrationally or quite insanely as result of temporary outside factors. So, Its not something to worry about in that sense, but its certainly something to identify the cause of and take action against and monitor.

best of luck!
That was my guess too. Calculus is actually really simple, and any reasonable test is going to be easy if you were taught well.
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Every bank teller is accessing this system. At the moment when they face the person whose score they see. An ideal moment for conversion if you ask me.

Having said that, dissidents usually don't have problems with finding their ilk, neither they're looking to assemble a rank-and-file army.
Computer Science isn't a massively useful degree in the real world. It's a shame there isn't a more vocational 'Software Engineering' course similar to Civil / Mechanical engineering which is geared towards teaching immediately useful skills in addition to the academic theory.
> Hinduist thought

Nitpicking, but "Hindu thought" will do! Thanks for the link.
A relative of a friend of mine uses a pseudonym to escape harassment they suffered due to being gay. They're Facebook friend of their parents, their sibs, and other relatives.
I remember waiting for two years for this book to come to the US in paperback.

Worth every minute of the wait. The road to hell really is paved with good intentions.
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Good, I'm glad this is getting traction. Seems like every week I read about another trans person or someone who uses a psuedonym in day-to-day life getting "reported" by some asshole and getting locked out of their Facebook, and Facebook seems uninterested in fixing the issue.

Honestly, it's heartbreaking, as someone who uses many Facebook open source projects, to talk to engineers at Facebook and find out how many don't know this is even an issue. It's certainly kept me from responding to FB recruitment emails.
You have to understand in SF it's somewhat common for scammers, homeless people, or very aggressive Israeli sales people to butt into conversation and try to talk to you on the street. It's very likely he has been conditioned to this or thought you were one of the above.
You don't want a body lying around for a few days spreading whatever they died off.
Apparently plague victims were often buried in haste.
"Seminar" (i.e., lots of quite learned but accessible blog posts by smart people, including replies by Francis Spufford himself) on the book at Crooked Timber (collaborative academic-ish blog): http://crookedtimber.org/category/red-plenty-seminar/. I particularly liked Cosma Shalizi's post at the start of the second page.
Taiwan is HTC country. iPhone is a foreign status symbol. A scooter is just "something everyone has". There are more registered scooters in Taiwan than people!

I showed my friends here (Kaohsiung) the Gogoro scooter a few months ago, and they said they would never buy it. Their reasoning was exactly as the grandparent comment said: there are cheaper alternatives. They said it's also ingrained into the culture to go for the best deal even if something which costs slightly more is much better.
Xiaomi is eating a lot of Apple's marketshare. And a smartphone is almost a requirement, while having some nice e-scooter would be _nice_ but probably not on everyone's affordable list.

But even so, Apple is Apple, which has spent a lot of money into marketing/advertising their product and has a huge loyal following.

I too am interested in trying this out when I visit Taiwan next, but I just don't see a lot of people who want to line up and pay 2x the cost for an e-scooter. Also while their hardware/software integration are well beyond what gas scooters can do, but its look isn't that much better.

(Personally I am also wary of their vendor lock-in with the chargestations)
You are misreading the article, that cost overrun is from a previous nuke project (supplied by Areva, started in 2005 and not yet finished).

Regarding what the price guarantees are worth (and it's not an estimate, it's in contract), there are some interesting scenarios for sure if they can't hold up their promises. For example the joint company is being bankrolled with a large slice from Rosatom, one wonders what happens to their capital in case of a bankruptcy!
First, the most common use of a "chosen name" policy would be to let you find someone by the name they actually use - stage name, pen name, drag name, or unofficially changed name.

Second, the less common but equally important use of a chosen name policy would be to make it hard to find someone who doesn't want to be found eg: by an abusive, dangerous ex.
I didn't say it was rude, though. I would have hoped he could've just said "sorry, but I'm too busy to talk right now."

Like I said, it was likely wrong place/wrong time. First impression doesn't mean all subsequent impressions.

Anyway, I hope I do get the chance to meet him eventually when it's the right time.
A lot of UK MSc courses are "conversion courses" for people with degrees in others subjects and who want to get into computing.

In my experience the level the MSc courses are taught at can be a good bit lower than the undergraduate courses in the same department.

NB This doesn't apply to all UK masters degrees, obviously. Some of the 5 year courses are really good.
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The state of client side authentication is abysmal, and has been since the 90s, for a number of reasons. The UI is bad, there's no way to log out, and the server has no control of how and when dialogs pop up.

Things started to go sideways when web developers wanted to exercise control over login form presentation, which just makes it very hard to prevent scripts to tamper with them, and the heavyweights that control web browser development simply has had no interest.

I'd like to see the above implemented, it's also time to get SRP in there, and an opportunity for servers to serve pre-filled CSRs, just like the article describes. I just don't know how to get there. Perhaps the bigger institutions such as CERN (they certainly have the respect required) can take a more active part in web browser development.

In the mean time, we still have Kerberos (and HTTP Negotiate). It works well for always online internal applications, and you don't have to mess about with revocations.
Offtopic. But still: Thanks. Nice.
100% agree. Others posting regarding this issue have no idea about any facts in this issue. The much more plausible reality is, this guy didn't get an extension as a lecturer and is butthurt and attacking the math department which he believes to be hiding evidence about his "amazing teaching prowess" and is getting rid of him because everyone wants to take his class instead of from full time faculty. Seems to me like he is disillusioned. Maybe his teaching is effective and maybe he is a good lecturer, I can't argue for or against that. But he didn't do his job in a way that the department expected and was let go. Live with it. It is completely over the top to become suicidally depressed because your boss told you that you have to assign homework and tell your TAs what to do. Sorry, but this really takes away from his credibility as a person.
> Nobody cares that there is serious (intentional) gender imbalance among e.g. shop clerks or bank tellers. Those are not sexy jobs.

On the contrary, most of those who are interested in addressing gender imbalances in fields like computer science are simultaneously interested in addressing the gender imbalances in "unsexy" jobs, since these are just two sides of the same coin. Since higher paying jobs in fields like computer science tend to be had by men, the individuals who tend to hold the "unsexy" low-wage jobs tend to be women. The fact that people don't explicitly name the unsexy occupations does not entail that nobody cares about their gender imbalances.

The reason that high-wage positions are usually the positions of focus may simply be a product of our tendency to be more interested in leveling up rather than down when it comes to addressing distributive injustices.
I've also been playing with Scaleway's ARM servers for a scraping project and to learn more about distributed computing. (details here in other HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10371316)

I've been able to scale my scraping to over almost 100 requests per second in aggregate across 1.8MM domains. And these little Atom quad core machines are great.

I just got my account upgraded to "developer" which mean I can spin up 100 machine (400 cores!), so I'm going to be experimenting with that.
I had a similar thought, though my original exposure to the concept was in Jack Vance's "To Live Forever".
VICE is awesome ... I don't care how they make money, as long as they bring news to the people.

It's my personal unicorn!
I would guess the main factors are a) the huge range in prestige or quality between universities and b) the large number of media and business degrees that are classified as computer science.

On the first point, look at the difference between the numbers at the top and bottom of this table:

http://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2015/may...

These rankings are nonsensical in many ways, but some universities consistently appear towards the top and some towards the bottom and the employment stats plummet towards the bottom of the table.

On the second point, click on a university name in the link above and you will see a list of degrees. You can a) see that "Computer Science" can mean all sorts of different things and b) you can click on the degree name to see the actual course contents, which may not match what you think of as computer science:

* Business Information Technology BSc (Hons) http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/courses/course-finder/business-informa...

* Computer Graphics Technology BSc(Hons) http://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate-course/computer-grap...
People who need payday loans rarely dissent, they're too busy for that.
What other people need and what is a lot and a little are not matters to be decided or judged by you. Get your nose back on to your plate.

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Of course, the price and power consumption of those quad core Xeon boxes probably has a lot to do with Intel wanting to kill the ARM server market.
Even less than that, as price is monthly capped: https://scaleway.com/faq/billing/#-How-do-I-take-advantage-o...
I am using probably 5% of what ES is capable of, and now I feel even further behind. But, it's amazing to see some of these things get polished and improved on an already powerful system.

They were even kind enough to make an upgrade plugin: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-migration
ok, but even if you did full time hands on study of computing then you're still starting from a 0-basis foundation of knowledge on entering since there is no formal education before that.

and a little like hub networking we can only operate at the rate of the slowest peer. We can't "negotiate up" the curriculum.

so it's a waste of time and resources for many people. - like another poster said though there is a lot of mathematics involved so it's not like I'm saying it's useless, just that it's certainly not necessary and that we should be (and are) putting computers into the hands of children rather than teaching people -only once they arrive at university- about how computers function.
Even today, what makes Lego superior to their competitors (to the extent that e.g. eBay sellers take pains to guarantee their packs of random bricks contains nothing but genuine Lego...) is that the pieces are manufactured with surprising precision and have a lot of little details that most people aren't even aware of.

E.g. wonder why Lego Technic sets and similar uses a mix of black and grey connecting studs instead of just sticking to one? The grey ones will rotate more easily, so depending on whether you want to lock something in place or enable it to rotate more freely (e.g. wheel, rotor) you'll use different ones. If you look at them up close, this is achieved by tiny little ridges (fractions of a mm tall and fractions of a mm wide) on the black ones. There's also a slit in he black ones, not sure what if anything that makes a difference to.

Most non-Lego bricks lack a lot of those details, and that makes them less flexible to use.
Building a 9GAG clone over the weekend: PixPit.com
I just which that they would focus on adding basic features rather than adding the more complex ones first.
In a cubicle only you shall program!

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Apprenticeships <> Bootcamps

And for a "professional" Job its debatable if using such a low status term is a good idea - in the UK Apprenticeships are seen as blue collar low status jobs at best.

Ask most people in the UK about Apprentices and they will think of the lusers on that ghastly TV Show.

Oh And I say this having followed the vocational track into IT
I went to Cal and I took Math 1A and I agree that the professors there don't give a fuck about engaging and motivating you. Math 1A is a weeder class and is meant to discourage dumb people from the sciences and push them into easier majors like Communications or PoliSci, etc.
I agree with the original post, however the question here is something to the tune of: "do women not like it or are they being pushed away (passively) by social factors?"

If it's the former, then everything is fine, if it's the latter then there is room for improvement.
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If that money sits there in U.S. dollars or any other central-bank issued paper money then "sitting" money is a non-issue. Central bank can increase money supply and direct it through government or banking system to holes digging efforts to keep current employment levels (aka monetary easing). The hard part is to unwind it when that money which was sitting there starts moving. Then we will probably see some inflation. Easing is easy, tightening hard.
"there is no formal education before that."

I don't know about the rest of the UK but Computing Science is on the curriculum at schools in Scotland - I studied computing at school in the early 80s and had projects doing 6502 assembler on an Apple (NB and I did not go to a fancy school).

Here is a SQA Advanced Higher paper - looks pretty good to me:

http://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/ComputingScienceSQPAH.pdf
Exactly you don't get to start A Physics or Chemistry Degree without doing it at GCSE and A Level.
Ads are impersonal and unsolicited. I think the last point is key.

Someone flogging their site here is a grey area, of course, but HN is a community and there are guidelines and policies and ultimately it still feels like it belongs to the people who use it.

There are many places in my daily life where I have to go that feel more and more like they belong to advertisers (commerce) instead of the people who live there. At least on the web you can block the ads.
TL;DR: It's ok, but expansion is tricky, as the initial installation (which was substantial) can only power the existing facilities. Also the dependability of the power grid is a concern as well.
The problem is it's 3D. It'd have to check from every angle, or all you achieve is that people get "creative" about arranging layers at different distances that'll line up when you approach it from the right direction.
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Naval is an unbelievable investor, entrepreneur, and friend. He's completely founder aligned in a way that is almost unheard of in silicon valley. Someone you don't have to watch what you say and can simply be direct with. I've only recently gotten to know Naval. But, immediately, he's risen to the top as my favorite person to work with hands down.

Truly a unique founder ally amidst the staunch traditionalism of silicon valley investing. Can't wait to see AngelList continue to change/democratize fundraising.
I think these servers can be interesting for increased privacy. You can use them as a low-cost, low energy dedicated server where noone can snoop on you undetected (unlike a VPS).
The professors in the UC system are not paid well, but the administrators are all $100K+ with pensions
I concur: it is a new trend and DigitalOcean or Backblaze are not the only one playing this game. I work for a start-up in this market. We also design our own hardware and software, all packaged under an IaaS offering: https://scaleway.com/faq/#-What-is-Scaleway