skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well democracy is supposed to be citizens participating directly in the political process. What we have is a very watered down version of democracy - we elect officials every few years, but don't really participate in law making or ratification.
Are you legitimately suggesting intelligence agencies should be permitted unfettered realtime full-take access to arbitrary private companies' registration systems?
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I couldn't get past the introduction of "The Master Algorithm", is the rest of the book a bit more grounded?
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And coming from the WSJ I'm even more surprised: you can argue that the US has a porous border system, given you can get a ferry from New Jersey to New York City, talking about citizens with regular American passports and with the right to travel freely.
I actually think that's where flatness works best.

Rather than being whoever can kiss the most ass and not upset the boss (the usual system), a flat system ends up being a battle for leadership which puts the smart and commanding at the top. "Rock star dev who's also a jerk" is who should be the boss.
For their graduates. What's the attrition rate from people initially in the program to people graduating? I've heard of other local programs that kick people out of the program and refund the prorated difference if you can't keep up or fail tests. For reference, the program I'm talking about boasts of a 100% placement rate for graduates.
What is the point of the sand-microwave analogy? I really don't get it.

It can't be about microprocessors, since we've had those for decades and don't have murderous AI yet.
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Another issue with flat structure is that once implicit management roles arise, other people tend to hold those individuals responsible for results even as they lack official support for the role. It builds resentment towards them and puts them in a difficult position.
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I can see the possible benefit for small vineyards & farms, but at 4ha/hr it would take more than a week to cover a single paddock (field) of ours. Although I'd assume the controlling software would have good route planning, probably driven by drones doing weed spotting and NDVI/biomass analysis

I'd also like to know more about the kind of infrastructure you'd need to support autonomous operations, because if they're not autonomous they still a step behind current farm equipment.

Interesting how the WSJ and BBC articles contradict each other, one claiming plans are inexpensive while the other claiming they are. We use planes to complement our machinery, and they definitely aren't prohibitively expensive, and have far more use than just spraying chemical.
John Ralston Saul argues it was the age of Reason that did this in the book Voltaire's Bastards going all the way back to the Jesuit schools.

http://www.johnralstonsaul.com/non-fiction-books/voltaires_b...
Zainab is a female name.
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> at the metastudies on narcissism, which talk about how the selection process for surgeons (brain surgeons especially) tends to select for egomaniacs and results in a very politically charged industry

Are there any surprising findings there, or is it just what you could reasonably expect after putting people through 10+ years of life-sucking training, deep in debt, to work on the most complicated thing humans ever had to deal with - but under time pressure and tremendous emotional load?
The real complexity of the discussion comes from the unknown number of attacks that would be prevented with very mild pre-9/11 security measures.

Earlier this year, I read The Looming Towers, an overview of various historical factors that led to the 9/11 attacks. Its focus is really more on the origins on Islamic extremism, not logistical planning of the 9/11 attacks, but it did cover several aspects of 9/11 specifically that were very interesting. Importantly, the FBI and CIA - between them - had enough information to stop the attacks but did not collaborate well enough, mostly due to the differing goals between the CIA and the FBI. To the CIA, a potential terrorist is an asset - they hope that person, if left on the street, will attempt to contact someone higher up in (say) al Qaeda and therefore generate more data for the agency. To the FBI, such a person is a suspect, and really needs to be taken off the street as soon as enough evidence has been gathered to build a criminal case against him. During the summer of 2001, the FBI was blocked form getting the full CIA info on several important 9/11 figures because the CIA knew they'd be immediately arrested with that information.

(that is, of course, a broad overview, but the main point is more or less correct)

It's frustrating to see so many people embracing their lack of freedom as a security blanket. We don't need to use terror to grant our governments more control over our lives, we need just need to hold those who claim to be keeping us safe accountable.
I had the same thought. Seems like Chef would be a better fit?
The problem is supposedly with people getting into Europe, via the poorly resourced Greek islands, using false passports. Once they're in they can travel across the Shengen area.

For your US example to work you'd need terrorists to travel from Mexico through a poor and overworked US border town.
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Seriously? Do you have any sources for this?
I'm not sure how much freedom I actually have considering how much of my life has to be sold to someone else so I don't starve to death in the cold and rain.
> the defeat of our freedom and the victory of terrorists

I think by terrorists here, you mean the oligarchs within the regime who are either complicit by standing down or plotting outright against the citizenry or completely incompetent by not catching criminals before they wreck havoc, and not those scruffy bearded nutjobs in the desert?
"Suitably" doesn't mean "arbitrarily". In this case it probably means something like "relative to the number of variables, N".
By the time Rome was sacked, the center of the Roman empire was for several hundred years already in the east.

To be more precise in Nova Roma or Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) and this since the 11th May 330.

It remained the center of the Roman empire until 1453, this was long after the Roman culture in the west was almost completely destroyed. (and with it western Christianity turned into a tool of oppression)

So while the West during these times faced oppression and feudalism, the Roman empire certainly did not.
Or it is part of their job to book events? But indeed, it's hard to justify not having also a modern browser available, even if you "need" an old environment for other reasons.
I'm commenting on specifics within the posted article. This is very common behavior on HN.
For an investigative piece on why Hack Reactor is an anomaly you should read this:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3023456/become-an-ios-developer-i...

> The schools that tout six-figure salaries, such as Hack Reactor, tend to set a higher bar for admission, seeking candidates that already have some experience with code.

Another quote to take note of:

> "There's no world in which somebody who's been programming for a few months will be competitive with someone coding for 10 to 15 years."
My Pebble Time came with an application on it that is literally exactly this.

https://developer.getpebble.com/blog/2015/05/17/timeline-cha...
Can you create a Caesar Cipher in elixir that can beat 114 characters?
Actually, 105k but it's not that hard to believe in the bay area.

http://www.hackreactor.com/
nothing? did I post this in the wrong place?
My previous comments on flat structures (related to holacracy, but works for any flat org theory):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8270601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9513604

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9367390
Source on Github: https://github.com/atduskgreg/chesscomputer
Coding bootcamps screen for prior experience and/or aptitude
It might be worth pointing out that there is a Macintosh II emulator built solely for the purpose of running A/UX.

https://github.com/pruten/Shoebill

A mirror of the well-known A/UX software repository, Jagubox, has been published at the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/25_12_2009_jagubox
> ... Yet they cannot stop terrorists ..

The 'incompetence theories' are getting thinner by day. Analog to this is the "Muslim" terrorist du jour group's 'oil production' in plain sight of God knows how many intelligence platforms are in use in air and space over the area.

Possible that they don't want to stop these attacks?

Possible that they actually create these events?

Is is possible? Or is the narrative that the Western civilization managed to get to their pinnacle of achievement in spite of being governed and guided by "incompetent" leaders, systems, and institutions?
Yeah this is a huge differentiation. Knowing how programming even works -- e.g. the editing of text files, running an interpreter, etc -- is a huge step beyond what the average non-technical person knows.

Having taught grad students who are otherwise smart but have had no programming experience whatsoever...I'm constantly astounded at what I have to explain. Such as the concept of a prompt from an interactive shell, and how nothing "happens" until you hit Enter. This is pre-basic and yet I can understand why the confusion happens...there is virtually no other modern software in which the paradigm is that nothing happens until you hit Enter...even a web browser, you're already sending off data to have your query be predicted as soon as you type in a couple of letters.

It can take some time to learn the basic mechanics of programming. If you've toyed with it for a couple of years, you're probably well past that stage.
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That's cool, but it seems to be based upon a database of radios, Wifi, etc. How hard would it be to make something that picks up on the actual wireless networks and plots something similar? I imagine some movement for telemetry would have to be involved.
> Many will argue the Roman Empire just shifted to the East where it continued to have an impressive, long-lived empire.

It is a historic fact that Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire in 330 to Constantinople, where it remained the center of the Empire for the next 1100 years.
Unfortunately this relies on PMTU discovery working, which is frequently broken by misconfigured firewalls by eg blocking all ICMP traffic. Now that GCE has a more exotic broken firewall that also breaks traffic with PMTU disabled, you have a lose-lose situation.
As I was walking by a pile of Dell laptops for sale today, I just had to wonder if the timing of this problem is just coincidence? Regardless, this kind of thing really helps out the FBI/CIA/NSA/etc get around encryption when targeting an individual. Malice intended or not.
> getting thinner by day

Source? Any proof at all that they aren't just incompetent? Its not a stretch to believe gov agencies are just incompetent, considering how useless they are in general when it comes to technology.
If you haven't seen it yet, Deathbed Vigil is a documentary of the last days of Commodore based on contemporary video footage. It is pretty harrowing, and plenty of the people onscreen seem quite bitter with the management.
Beautiful. I just spent two weeks wandering around trying to figure out the name of accelerated MD, and suddenly you've got the boldness to educate HN about it.

There is a fruitful space of combining good priors about the pattern of folding expected out of a given protein with MD simulations. I dream that it revolutionizes how we determine the structure of proteins.
A lot of people are going to suggest either going back to school to get a CS degree, or slowly building a portfolio while you teach yourself how to code.

I'm going to suggest a third option. If you have the money, you should attend a high profile coding bootcamp. There's no doubt in my mind that it's the fastest way to go from "intelligent non-programmer" to "salaried programmer."

Graduates from bootcamps have statistically excellent outcomes - the majority of top bootcamps have 6 figure average starting salaries. Assuming you could teach yourself everything in a hyper-accelerated fashion, your first job would still likely not net you that much because the employer is taking a large risk on you. A bootcamp serves as both a school and a vetting agency - I'm willing to bet that attending a bootcamp will allow you to command 20-30k more than the amount you would have earned teaching yourself.

In addition, after landing your job you'll still have time to do side projects and continue learning whatever you'd like - it's not an either-or proposition. The difference here is that you'll be making enough money to support yourself and potentially save for further education.

I have multiple friends who have gone through coding bootcamps and it's been an utterly lifechanging experience in every case. If you're smart and driven, it almost seems like a no brainer.
> The number of women in the software industry when they join it might be roughly equal to the number of men, and their salaries might well be higher, but after a few years a lot of the women have left.

Note: we've just shifted the goalpost from "women don't join the industry because its misogynist and elitist" - as it used to be for the past year or two with those discussions - to "women join the industry about just as men do, but later (5-20 years!) leave because industry is misogynist and elitist".

Also note: women are being paid more on average.

Ok, so feminists have won, right? Can we stop with the gender threads before people realize that:

> I doubt they're being paid more because they're better - developer quality isn't related to gender as far as I know.

literally means men are being victims of sexism in the field?
> It's wildly irrational

I'm not completely disagreeing with you, I know that the probability of dying in a terror attack is small.

But I have a Muslim colleague that went to Mecca last year. He came back transformed, not smiling anymore, refusing to shake hands with female colleagues and has been surprised praying in the toilets and in a bus (he's a bus driver) and made a big scandal about having to take of his woolly hat (which apparently he attached religious significance to).

So now I wonder if one morning he'll decide to come at work with an AK-47. And living in France, I'm sure you would agree it's not irrational to think that.
Please explain, I can't even imagine what you could be referring to.
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You need to look up "freedom." It doesn't mean "other people are required to meet all of your needs."
Yeah. But the author seems to have gotten some good money from amd you write about them rather than go out and say that, amd is also dying much like the others.

I highly doubt if arm will ever become a serious contender in the desktop computing market, let alone the hpc market which is even more difficult with what Intel can guarantee.
Really, you guys believe technology sufficiently advanced to be indistinguishable from magic (h/t to Arthur C. Clarke) will be festooned with the alien tech equivalent of pop-up ads and banners easily detectable by puny earthlings? Allow me to disagree.
If every single one of the plots you noted (including the ones that were actually reverse stings organized by the FBI) was wildly successful, terrorism would kill about as many Americans as accidental gun discharges do. And that's not realistic.

Terrorism is bullshit. Sadly, we can't do the right thing because the country is full of cowardly morons who think that the solution is toppling more governments, killing more people, and hoping that somehow this time will be different.
> This will probably be the last release. I won't be able to work on Shoebill going forward (by contractual obligation), so I wanted to race out one last release.

Really sad that companies put these kinds of restrictions on their employees...
Genuinly curious: why would they hide their successes? It would change public perception about the surveillance, and it would also act as a deterrent to potential terrorists. I get that they don't want to reveal their methods, but I can't see any issues with sharing their successes.
The problem is that smart people (setting a low bar to include anybody who doesnt have deep-seated prejudice or inviolable beliefs rooted in ancient superstitions) who don't think critically are subject to propaganda. They'll be told that opposing Hitler is simply being intolerant of intolerance, and that makes them no better than the Nazis. If they don't think about it critically, they'll agree, but if they do think about it critically, they'll realize that one side is being intolerant of oppression and violence, while the other is being intolerant of regular people being allowed to peacefully exist. During Hitler's rise, there were many prominent Nazi sympathizers in the US, and this was solved not by a pandemic of critical thinking but by instituting war propaganda in the opposite direction.

This is the same problem that plagued abolitionists in the 19th century, women's suffrage at the turn of the last century, civil rights in the 60s, apartheid in the 80s, and gay rights and refugees today, some of which had to be solved by counter-propaganda by those in power, and some of which had to be solved the hard way by those with little power loudly promoting critical thinking.
Palestinian currency is the Israeli Shekel. Palestinian capital is the Israeli city of Jerusalem. Palestinian infrastructure is provided by Israel.

Palestine is a non-entity state. Its people are governed by Hamas, an Islamist protest organisation whose written charter includes the annihilation of Israel.

If Palestinians stopped their terrorist attacks on Israel there would be peace. If Israel stopped defending itself militarily, it would cease to exist.
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What is switch tracking and how does it affect negotiations?
In the ideal world, the people with the clearest and most honest understanding of the world win. Within a society, those are the people who get elected. Between societies, those are the ones that survive.

There is a very real distinction to be made between people who require proof for belief and those who don't. In this case, people believe that their security is proportional the the privacy they give up. That unfounded assertion, tacit in all conversations on this (even tacit in liberal conversations about it), needs to be clearly labelled as wrong and evil, and those who willfully promulgate it (like virtually all politicians in the US and Europe) need to be told: you are saying something that is wrong and evil, as bad as anything Hitler asserted about race and national power.

This isn't a joke, or a goof, or a HN thread thing. This is a very real, globe-spanning conflict that will define this Age. Governments by their control of violence can do anything they want, it is up to the people to ensure it's self-restraint--and if it stops restraining itself, it is the people's right to replace that government entirely. We are now transitioning from a government hiding behind secrecy and Byzantine legal structures to government boldly asserting it's right to know everything about everyone within it's borders. It was always going to be about security. And it was always a lie.
I'd say that's a far more reasonable default assumption than that a business does make a profit.
> We should not stratify programmers into classes. A flood of newcomers into many related yet very different programming careers should be welcomed and encouraged. Code is a medium to solve problems, and we should applaud when we see so many novices eager to find tools to solve problems.

Why can't we do both? Applaud when people reach a new level of skill (including entry level) and recognize that there are still levels beyond that which we can encourage them to strive for?
There's probably a joke in the name but being not a native speaker can someone explain it to me please ?
Why is this even anything big? I mean, at almost ~2 GB/s, isn't this like snails pace for enterprise systems.
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I had a similar frustrating experience on iOS this morning. Clicking a YouTube link in Mobile Safari prompted opening the native app. I wanted to watch in the browser, so tapped "cancel," which cancelled the entire page load. There was no way to follow the YouTube link without uninstalling the native app. Firefox for iOS ignored the prompt, and I could watch the video.
That's exactly what disgusts me. I listen to politician's speech that takes advantage of those attacks to push for more censorship, for more sniffing, for a ban on encryptions. It's a tragedy yet the actions of politicians after that makes it even more tragic by destroying our freedom.

It's at times like this that I am ashamed of being French but then I realize that it would be the same in any other country and I become ashamed at the irrationality of my fellow human beings.
I think these two paragraphs are the most important words of our times, the century we were alive in.
Whenever I see these sort of topics discussed, I rhetorically think: why is there no initiatives to make careers like HR, veterinary work and other areas more inclusive.

Both genders have strengths and weaknesses due to their biological and genetic differences, so it's only natural for one side to dominate certain fields.

Pushing equality to the point of progressive politics is just going to harm people. They won't be able to get into careers that they are naturally good at, for example, because it's no longer fashionable to hire them.
In my experience, the thing that I've seen kill the motivation and productivity of any team, is the feeling – true or not – that the team isn't being listened to. From what I've seen, most people seem to be able to cope with most any structure, but if feedback goes (seemingly, at least) unnoticed then that more than anything will kill their motivation. No amount of flat, or structure, or holymoly organization voodoo will fix a team that's lost trust in their ability to do anything because they aren't being listened to.
I think you didn't read the article, conflate Gaza with the West Banks and are far too agitated.

FTA: "Israel did not extend 3G frequencies to the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Islamic militant group Hamas."
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Visual Studio Online can do hosted builds of iOS apps (XCode and Xamarin). That must be running on OSX. The good thing is you don't have to mess with OSX VM's or Hackintoshes as it's fully managed.
There's also sample deployment scripts in github for HockeyApp that can be used in your build processes.
In securing your "freedom" in your own eyes, you clearly require the product of someone else's labor to consume.

Why what virtue are you worthy of such freedom and by what vice should someone else be required to provide for you? Or do you not realize that you require a worse oppression for someone else... that they should spend much of their life sold to someone else and for their own benefit.