skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Really? Are you ashamed of your government's cyber attacks on other nations?

The U.S does minimal hacking and when it does, it's nearly surgical in nature. It's a precise target for a precise reason. This is unlike other countries' hacking (read: China & Russia) where it's indiscriminate and relentless. They hope to steal anything and everything.

The world isn't black & white. It's infinite shades of grey. Believe it or not, one form of hacking can be "less bad" than another form. Regardless, China and Russia's government hacking programs are orders of magnitude larger than the U.S's program.

> I could just replace the word "China" with "USA" in your comment and everything is still true.

No you couldn't. Again, the world isn't black and white and not all crimes are the same. Is a mass murderer and a petty thief the same? They're both criminals, right? If you don't think they're the same, then you begin to understand that the world isn't black and white.
In the poorer parts of big cities it's not uncommon to see prostitutes on the same blocks as you'd find residential housing.

There are some major through-roads in my city where it's common to see prostitutes, and of course there are apartments and houses just off the main roads.
They can grow apples on other land. The world is hardly overpopulated and the rich don't own anything close to every parcel of land. Heck, the rich have no reason to even waste drones defending their surplus landholdings, just as most owners of large tracts of land don't typically defend it against deer.

As long as the non-rich don't interfere with the drones harvesting apples for consumption by the rich, why would the rich care what they do?

Further, you seem to think the rich own most land. They may own most parcels of currently valuable land (e.g. Manhattan) weighted by land value, but that's not remotely the same thing. There are large amounts of land in the world which are currently laying fallow because there is no current use for them. E.g., Detroit is more or less abandoned (but well suited for industry), as are large amounts of flyover country which were formerly used for farming.
I also noticed they vest over six years, not four. Very unusual in my experience and means that they're effectively giving 0.6%, 0.15%/yr.

https://github.com/clef/handbook/blob/master/Hiring%20Docume...
A similar effect can already be done by entirely conventional means.

http://www.stone-ideas.com/2015/01/11/gabions-product-area-g...

Gabion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabion
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> I know I personally value technical organizations that are honest and forthcoming when things go south.

Why? How does the honesty (in this case openness really) change the quality?

Genuine question: Would you rather have an org that's always reliable but private in their tech or one that has issues but open about them?
Joy Butler, an IP lawyer, seems to think that they would be covered by fair use:

http://www.guidethroughthelegaljungleblog.com/2014/07/copyri...

Hasn't been tested in court, though.
Sounds like the real asshole is the person who instead of trying to understand and critique people with different opinions, simply lambasts them as "assholes".

A great example of the author's inability to engage with opposing views is in the intro:

Afterward, one of the event organizers thanked me for coming, even though, she said, “I disagree with almost everything you said.” Seriously? So it’s okay to evict poor people to make room for new rich people? Is that what the SF Chron talked about today with a story called “psychology studies suggest rising wealth means more jerks in SF?”

Note how the author is more interested in psychology studies about people, than what those people would actually say for themselves.
That's the thing, the just system isn't really broken, it's doing exactly what it's designed to do, protect the rich. The poor have never gotten a fair shake nor particularly liked the so called "justice system" nor the police who enforce it. Police are not your friends and the law is designed by and for the benefit of the rich and really always has been.
> this articles makes it appear as if Japan was the outlier but the truth is that the US is.

I think what makes Japan the outlier is their shockingly low violent crime rate, crime rate against children (abductions, etc) and one of the lowest drug use in first world countries.

I remember during the 80s, one of the big things being pushed for by politicians was a low crime rate and low drug use (same time D.A.R.E came into the world). Looks like Japan discovered that utopia. Japan certainly has it's cultural problems (which country doesn't?) but I'd love to have their problems instead of our own. It would be nice to be worrying about working 12 hour days instead of worrying about being shot on my way to work every day (last year, a bullet ricocheted of the concrete near me kicking up a piece or a rock which hit me in my leg, requiring stitches).
>Also, why on earth are people still using FTP in 2015?!

Why are people still using the command line in 2015? Why do we still use HTTP? Because as with FTP, there are use cases for which it still works perfectly well.
Would have been nice if screenshots were included in the post.
And oranges are dyed orange.

(They're really green.)
From what I've seen in a quick 5 minutes of googling, 100+ microseconds of read latency in an SSD is considered good/amazing. They listed the "Memory Channel Storage", a different, though similar tech to the one being introduced, as 3.3 microseconds, which is 2 orders of magnitude BETTER then a good SSD.
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He's spot on
With this type of evidence, it can be easy to justify spending even more hours playing video games. However, everything in moderation. It's very easy to take it too far when it comes to action video games. Now we should ask, which one is better for your well being in the long run? Action video games tend to be significantly more addicting than its counterpart. Is it worth that repercussion for slightly improved brain function?
Ah, thank you. I felt sure we'd had a big thread about it before, but couldn't find it earlier. Citylab is a project of the Atlantic, btw.

We've been seeing more of this cross-publishing lately, without links back to originals. I fear it will move the needle towards more dupes on HN (actual dupes, where we've already had a significant thread about the story in the last year or so).
No, I don't think so. I don't see where he said dogs are trained like that. He actually said almost the opposite - dogs are not ignoring weak smells.
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religion, language, political ideology a reason to separate?

Are you against immigrants too, since they dont align with the 3 of those characteristics? Diversity is good, learn to accept it, it's your inevitable future whether you like it or not (as long as you plan to live in Canada)
Do you really?

See, I don't agree with this - it's like saying as a site-owner, you need to cater to people who disable JavaScript, or who use Ghostery.

Sure, you can cater to them if you like (or if you think they're a sizeable portion of your audience). But if I was using one of those two, I certainly wouldn't go whine to a site owner and say "Your site doesn't work for me!". It's my choice to use those products.

Likewise for ad-blockers - sure, I use ad-blockers. But if a site breaks for me, I don't go whine to that site owner. I just choose to either disable the ad-blocker for that site (if the site has content I want), or I just don't frequent that site (if it doesn't).

Disabling JavaScript, or using an ad-blocker is an elective thing that some people choose to do (whether for paranoia, or because ads annoy them). It's not like say, accessibility for colour-blind people or people using a screen-reader, who can't really choose their disabilities. I have sympathy for people with disabilities (I myself am hard-of-hearing), however, I have less sympathy for people who disable JavaScript or use ad-blockers (Note that I myself use one - but if it breaks something, I debug it myself).
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My partner is going to be testing software I've written. He handles the business side of things and isn't a programmer.

Can anyone suggest some resources for him to read to how to best touch our software?
A bit frightening to think about: SHA hexdigests (as used in, e.g., cache-busting) can contain the two-character-sequence "ad".
We emigrated to the US when I was 6, and I started school a few days after our arrival. My parents were graduate students and we lived in a housing complex for foreign graduate students with families, but it would be more apt to call it a commune of sorts; it was extremely safe, collective, elaborately enclosed, and geographically separate both from campus and the rest of the town. I honestly can't imagine a safer place for kids. Every one of the 100+ residents had children, and there were lots of stay-at-home moms out in the backyard at pretty much all times.

The one thing that all foreigners could agree on, from dozens of nationalities around the globe, was that it was completely normal for a school-aged child to get home from school by themselves and spend the afternoon and/or early evening alone, calling on neighbours or others on hand if they needed help. Practically, many of these graduate students struggled to survive on tiny stipends, and took (sometimes not so legal) jobs to make ends meet. They also had to work harder than any American to try to have a chance of staying in America after their studies were complete.

Indiana state law and campus law enforcement did not take kindly to this. I was probably the only child of ex-Soviet extraction that was not at some point kidnapped by the university's security and turned over to an American foster family for two or three days while they sabre-rattled the parents with child neglect charges. These poor students had no money, no understanding of the US legal system, and they were helpless and scared. Many of them had to go through the "welcome to America, here's your middle finger!" experience. It was almost an established hazing ritual to be harassed by CPS/social services.

This harassment was a routine occurrence, and after a while, I learned that university security were not our friends, subconsciously souring me on police for life when I otherwise had no traumatic experiences on which to base that. They were always watching us, profiling us, trying to identify patterns such as seeing a child out after dark (which is like 4:30 PM in the winter in northern Indiana) routinely. Did they not have anything better to do? It was absolutely bewildering for almost all of the residents to learn that US state law considered it child neglect to leave a child unattended until age twelve; this would be unthinkable in most places around the globe.
You may have more against Quebec than the average Quebecer has with the ROC. The population here isn't as homogeneous as your broad strokes have painted it to be. I'd probably agree with you on a number of your criticisms of things that happen here, particularly in the political realm, but I can't get on board with the generalizations that you make.
We as a civilisation are evolving from human labour to automated labour, these are the growing pains of that transition.

It is reasonable to expect that within a century, human physical labour for reward will be considered such a backward practice. Humans are capable of so much more than completing repetitive physical tasks, why not give such work to machines?

Every time we choose to buy a hand-made garment instead of one produced by a machine, because our conscious tells us that people need jobs, not machines, we're only treating the symptoms and not the cause. It's an inevitable process that automation will begin taking jobs, it already has as we already know. It starts at the bottom, working its way towards ever increasingly difficult-to-automate tasks. The only one safe is the programmer, he who works to put himself out of a job.

The only question is, what do all the jobless people do?

For a good read, I recommend:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
"NPR is a standard mainstream news organization, with a higher journalistic standard than most."

Besides being a contradictory statement, I'd like to see an unbiased, reputable source regarding the second half of your comment.
In all fairness, this is likely a structural data anomaly. ie, it is driven by the number of majors at the school, and their level of abstraction. Here are some historical data points.

Notice the arbitary abstraction of, eg

Bio Sciences
Human Biology

1955
1. History
2. Economics
3. Psychology
4. Political Science
5. Bio Sciences

1965
1. History
2. Political Science
3. English
4. Psychology
5. Economics

1975
1. Psychology
2. Bio Sciences
3. Economics
4. History
5. English

1985
1. Economics
2. Human Biology
3. Bio Sciences
4. Electrical Engr
5. English

1995
1. Bio Sciences
2. Human Biology
3. Economics
4. Psychology
5. English

and now we look at 2010 (from quora)

Biological Sciences (1.32%) but
Human Biology (12.58%)
Biology (5.74%)

=~20% of Standford majors in 2010 are "biology majors" in plain language usage.

Based on data on Bachelor's Degrees conferred in the 2009-2010 school year[1], the top majors are:

Human Biology (12.58%)
Economics (8.10%)
International Relations (6.20%)
Biology (5.74%)
Computer Science (4.94%)
Engineering (4.71%)
Psychology (4.54%)
Political Science (4.25%)
English (3.96%)
History (3.62%)
Management Science and Engineering (3.39%)
Mechanical Engineering (3.10%)
Science, Technology, and Society (2.30%)
Communication (2.18%)
Electrical Engineering (2.07%)
Mathematics (2.01%)
Earth Systems (1.84%)
Physics (1.84%)
Sociology (1.49%)
Biological Sciences (1.32%)*
Not at all. The first thing people think of when they first learn the idea of gerrymandering is "draw districts that my party will never lose". In fact, the opposite is true. You want to concentrate the opposing party in a small number of districts, which then become overwhelmingly safe. But the seeming benefit of overwhelmingly safe seats is outweighed by the benefit of having a small advantage in a larger number of seats.
Unfortunately finding a contrary result is a career limiting move. Consider Robert Putnam, who suppressed his research (showing that diversity harms social cohesion) for 6 years while trying to "develop proposals to compensate for the negative effects of diversity".

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007....
Intel not mentioning price means this tech will be out of consumer reach for years. RAM is $5/gb while SSD is at .30 - .60. Would I pay $2/gb for something that isn't going to affect perceivable performance on my machine?

But if your dataset fits in an NVDIMM of xpoint maybe you might want it and take the simplicity of developing against persistent memory thats good enough for your access patterns.
Right. I was giving another example that might make it more clear : P
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This is not true. I'm tired of people confusing correlation with causation. The famous studies that people cite shows a correlation between women in senior management and profitability. It is entirely possible that the most competent women are attracted to the most profitable companies.
You can't inadvertently shill if you keep your mouth shut, you can't be misconstrued as consenting if you don't hashtag.

Maybe it's time to think about how unnatural it is for us to be sharing this much of our lives online, instead of complaining about corporations doing what corporations do, which is overstep the bounds of good taste and sanity in the name of making another buck.
University CS programs are kinda shitty for teaching people how to actually write code. It's not really more than that, it's math and theory and proofs instead of that. University faculty, if they ever worked in a professional environment, did it years and years ago before they got tenure.

The worst course I took in my CS department was the algorithms and data structures course. Didn't write a line of code. Wrote a ton of induction proofs. Learned a lot of esoteric algorithms that have very good big O profiles, but suck bogwater because of cache coherency when they are implemented on non-imaginary hardware, or have high constant factors that got hand-waved away. I'd sign up for that course in a hot second, if it covered the same material, but instead of scrawling on a chalkboard, it was structured around writing the same algorithms in C, segfaults and all. I don't think most CS majors could hack that kind of course, however.
Those who are interested in some discussion about games may find extra credits youtube channel interesting.

This particular episode mentions the previous study on violent video games, and talks about how maybe video games actually help make people more empathetic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fftjo1CepQE
very very impressive.
> religion, language, political ideology a reason to separate?

I'd think so; those differences are why we have different nations in the first place. Otherwise we'd all be living under some global government, no?

> Are you against immigrants too, since they dont align with the 3 of those characteristics?

Only if they started making up their own unconstitutional laws governing their ethnic enclaves. Eg. "Chinese signs must be bigger than English signs or you go to jail!"

Edit: btw there's nothing about supporting Quebecois sovereignty that makes me "against" Quebeckers. I'm not "against" the French or Italians but it wouldn't make any sense for them to be a part of Canada either.
Show me a society that is pure anything. Capitalism is an idea among many ideas that influence society -- pure capitalism doesn't exist in the real world.
The intent of the boards is not to protect against international compeition, but rather to create a floor price for agricultural goods.
Here's the abstract from your link. A bit more complicated than your summary.

Ethnic diversity is increasing in most advanced countries, driven mostly by sharp increases in immigration. In the long run immigration and diversity are likely to have important cultural, economic, fiscal, and developmental benefits. In the short run, however, immigration and ethnic diversity tend to reduce social solidarity and social capital. New evidence from the US suggests that in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down’. Trust (even of one's own race) is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friends fewer. In the long run, however, successful immigrant societies have overcome such fragmentation by creating new, cross-cutting forms of social solidarity and more encompassing identities. Illustrations of becoming comfortable with diversity are drawn from the US military, religious institutions, and earlier waves of American immigration.
How did you recruit those people?
Would be interesting to see some side by side comparisons of the content written by the minorities versus white male teen suburbanite (ideally evaluated objectively by someone who doesn't know who wrote it) to see what the tangible results are of a diverse writing staff.
The RNN was trained on classical guitar music, but the resulting MIDI is being "played" by a string section, which highlights the separate voices.

No write-up here, as this is part of ongoing research, but I hadn't seen anyone trying to do polyphonic music with char-rnn yet, and I'm once again blown away by the power of this library and these techniques.
That's definitely a danger, and it's not an either-or thing, of course, as well.

I think the point of that advice is to remind that for an astounding amount of people empathy is not at all a priority! It may be even seen as a weakness, in an unspoken way. Humanity and empathy should be a core value on a company's banner precisely because it's fairly explicitly discouraged by default in personal and work culture at large.
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Sometimes it's better to be weird in just one way than several. So if you're going to be the guy who doesn't shower, it's best not to also be the guy who doesn't get haircuts, wears pants which are the wrong size, et cetera.
It might have to do with where you're located, but no. The several that I applied for wouldn't even interview me because I apparently wasn't well versed in their stack (despite being well educated, solid experience, proven track-record, and a strong will).

I would totally attribute it to being just me, but in the last month I've received offers from Amazon, the DoD, Intel, and a few smaller shops in my area.

It's funny too, because I see the same companies continually posting the same ads month after month in the "Who's Hiring" posts, so they must have a fairly strong bias against false positives.
When my wife asks me why I enjoy FPSs (Titanfall, Call of Duty, Halo, etc), I try to explain to her that its like the fastest game of chess imaginable. The difference being that you can only see a couple of the pieces on the board and you have to try to keep track of where you think the remaining pieces are in your mind.
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>"[Juries] are even willing to go a step further and say, 'We'll convict on the basis of DNA, even in the face of evidence — non-DNA evidence — that this isn't the perpetrator," Murphy says.

Juries are largely representative of the general population. As such, most have been conditioned by television crime dramas such as Law & Order, CSI and NCIS to view DNA evidence as infallible techno-wizardry that always catches the bad guys.

Ever see a mainstream crime drama end with the arrest and conviction of someone totally innocent, the credits roll, and that's it? Neither have I.

Instead, we have the stereotype of law enforcement being completely incorruptible, with the evidence technicians themselves cast as well-meaning nerds who are equally infallible, because gosh, they're just super geeky scientists who are super smart.

"When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty." - Norm Crosby

Sadly that quote is even more relevant today.
Dairy farmers are hardly a bunch of rich fat cats oppressing the poor.
I wonder how much of the underrepresentation of women in this field is due to it being low prestige relative to other formerly male-dominated fields such as medicine or law into which women have made substantial inroads, because women seem much less willing to enter male dominated fields, however well-paying, if they lack prestige (electricians would be an example).

If I'm correct, then the very same media outlets lamenting the lack of women in CS are actually partly to blame for it for their ongoing denigration and belittling of those already in the field. For example, someone in this thread cited an NPR article titled "When Women Stopped Coding." Does "coding" sound like a prestigious job activity to you? How many news articles have you seen lately that casually refer to psychiatrists or psychologists as "shrinks," and how many have you seen that refer to us as "coders," "geeks," or "nerds?"
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