skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how the most essential work in society is under constant pressure of debasement. Feeding people is considered an ignominious job. Teaching people too is constantly debased. Now it's affecting higher education. The neoliberal transformation of capitalism decouples the value of goods and services from their value to humanity and instead pegs them against markets. Markets no longer merely transmit information about value. They are the definition of value. This is the ideological difference between liberal free market capitalism and neoliberalism; at least the former paid lip service to the idea that truth and value are ours to define. Not so. Capital determines value.

Universities are capitalist entities. They are trying to compete and appreciate in value for their shareholders. The market has replaced whatever value systems justified universities in the past.
Perhaps it's better to say that Twitter has sucked up most of the attention of those same people.

I suspect the cause and effect relationship runs the other way: Most likely, people are going to Twitter because HN does not have the same quality of atmosphere it had when I joined.
I'm Sindre. I actually spent more time on open source when I did work. Some people cook or bicycle as a hobby. I code. I'm totally addicted to making things on the computer. I used to spend work lunches coding on open source projects. I lived in a remote place (Lillehammer, Norway) with few people around and not much happening, so I had a lot of free time after work. It definitely is tough working up energy to code after doing it all day at work, but it's different. Open source coding is the most exciting thing I've ever done. I'm so glad I accidentally got into doing open source. It changed my life.
Will Middleman project add a CoC?
It stopped helping me, so I switched to Extra Strength Placebo. Thankfully, that did the trick!
Someone hacked my Amazon account once. I'm surprised they don't have 2-step verification.
It's worth noting that 'Detroit' didn't necessarily make this decision as much as the state-appointed emergency manager there did.. It's ugly times for many nearly-bankrupt cities as they look for new revenue sources from desperately poor populations. These EMs have wide mandates to cut costs and raise revenue without any real oversight, it's an absolute crises of democracy.
The Bielefeld Conspiracy
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I read this as a guy who has serious amnesia.
I've wanted to put together a website that highlights bad science and resulting journalism (both when journalism exposes bad science, and when journalism furthers bad science).

Would anyone be interested in seeing something like that?
...and then there's the part about Vice being yet another component of that same CIA apparatus, although not specifically related to the GWoT.

If that's not absurdly obvious to anyone by now, keeping lapping up your Vice articles with all the same subversive glee of a purported guilty pleasure, as ever, and remain blissfully deluded.
I doubt it, as the buggy code wasn't nonsense in the usual sense.
I measure my coding time in hours I'm truly concentrated and that's about four hours a day. My main focus is to use these hours as effective as possible and fill the rest with easy tasks. This way my mind stays fresh every day.

And exercise, best way to clear your head!
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Because logic programming wasn't the goal of erlang?
Well, this is basically what types are :)
China's drastic growth and where economic growth comes from
A) Some of them do that until their body gives out and they suffer burn out.

B) Look to your health. If you want to be more productive without "paying for it" later, you fundamentally need to increase your ability to produce. Eat right, exercise, practice good sleep hygiene, etc.
I think hengheng is talking about the 50-megapixel 5DS, released in June 2015:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-5ds-sr
Presenting things that are not peer reviewed is generally considered bad science, is it not?

This kind of "science" happens here on HN every day and nobody bats an eye.

"We used XYZ framework and it's the best thing ever!"

Then tons of people use XYZ framework.

Blog posts.

Videos.

Fad happens.

Fad is over because "Why I'm switching to ABC framework."

With tons of benchmarks of course.

My point is that this happens all over the place. Someone makes a "discovery", markets the hell out of it with great speeches, bravado, etc. It gets coverage. It "grows legs" if you will. People repeat it and spread it.

The "science" part I was referring to was the part where someone else attempts and fails to repeat the initial findings.
Is there any reason to use this over https://www.nuget.org/packages/Tesseract/ ?
Hi Sindre. You have me blocked on GitHub and I'm not sure why. As far as I'm aware I've never interacted with you directly. I tried to submit a bug fix to one of your projects, but I wasn't allowed to even fork it. I also tried emailing you but I got no response.

I hope that if I said something offensive in some other context that gave you cause to block me, you'll give me another chance.

-andrewrk
https://github.com/andrewrk/
Why sign off with cynical? I came to this country a few decades ago and it was nothing like this.

We are witnessing social engineering in action. It has been quite effective.
I'm faculty at a regional university in the U.S. Our enrollment is dropping by 5% a year, and short term positions are becoming the norm. Tenure track positions are risky in that once you've got somebody with tenure, it's difficult to get rid of them (intentionally). Short term positions give universities flexibility. We are not a Harvard or Yale with billions of dollars in endowments. Tuition is 80% of revenue, and our existence in 20 years is in no way guaranteed.

I don't know how many universities are flush with cash and are just being stingy by using adjuncts, but where I work (small regional university), we have intense budget pressure. We'd have to raise tuition a lot to cover the cost of converting adjust to tenure-track positions.

I don't like how adjuncts are treated, but seeing the problem from our administration's point of view, I know why we have so many adjuncts.
Could you might address some of the points raised in the article? They seem to be at odds with what you wrote.

For example, you wrote "adjunct professor is supposed to be a fun side gig", while the article suggests that these position were originally for '“the housewives of higher education” (eg, the wife of a man that the university wanted to recruit), or for female instructors where the university did not allow female professors. These were low status positions, quite different from the "fun side gig" you says it was meant for.

You point to Northwestern's law school as if it were the appropriate model for how adjunct teaching should be, and comment that many if not most made millions per year. However, the article says "31 percent of part-time faculty are living near or below the federal poverty line". What percentage of the 250+ adjunct professors in Northwestern's law school department live at or near the federal poverty line? Why you think your experience at a graduate program Northwestern can be generalized to undergraduate teaching and is applicable to most other schools in the US?

You write 'But these adjuncts are also taking advantage of themselves willingly.' The article also addresses that point rather extensively, starting with "But apart from feeling sorry for the underpaid faculty, why should we care that college professors have the same job conditions as day laborers, fast-food workers, cashiers, taxi drivers, or home-care aides? They did, after all, choose to pursue a career in higher ed." and ending some eight paragraphs later.

Moreover, they are not all "willingly" doing so. Many are trying to unionize, but 'While some schools like Georgetown have accepted unions without too much fuss, others have adopted the tactics long used by anti-labor businesses: falsely accusing labor officials of earning exorbitant salaries, hiring law firms that specialize in union busting, and firing those involved in the campaign.' Instead, they are "willing" to stay for the short term, because in the long term they help themselves, others like them, the students they teach, and the humanist values that a college is suppose to embrace. (All points that the article touches on.)

These differences between your comment and the article suggest that your understanding of the adjunct teaching issue is not well aligned with what most people mean when they talk about this topic.
This comment reinforces my perception that erlang is less popular than it should be because engineers are not as strong as they should be.

The advantages of erlang, over basically every other language, make the "cost" of learning the syntax very low relative to the value of the erlang language.

If you think of yourself as a good engineer, you shouldn't be following the crowd of blubs who use languages simply because they don't tax their brain to learn them.
Thank your for your input and time. I totally agree with your points on "the basic work". I believe having a foundation is essential for learning and being able to build off things to adapt methods and strategies.
This could be also the reason or at least be connected to a behavior I experienced when using Apple Maps on the iPhone:

Apple Maps lacks support for bicycles, so when I cycle I usually use the pedestrian mode, as this fits closer to the tracks and routes available for bicycle drivers than the car mode.

But when you cycle to fast, Maps thinks you changed over to a car and tells you to turn around, as the current route does not fit for cars... How common is it see a bicycle in 1 Infinite Loop?
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/archaeology/early/indone...
Two sides to every story.

What is not beautiful is that:

- the people who conceived the original idea of the 'Actor model' were not appreciated enough, and their work had to languish in obscurity, during the OO (object-oriented) hype era, before it was rediscovered and later the dots were connected.

- 'reinvention of wheels' is bad because it's inefficient.

- Not to mention original OO idea by Alan Kay, in Smalltalk, was actually the 'Actor model' but it ended up being very misunderstood when implemented in C++, Java, etc, with the term OO being hijacked.
Study: No clinical or economic benefit from digital health monitoring
Here is my go-to motivator for getting in at least 30 minutes of exercise per day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurobiological_effects_of_phy...

It takes a few months for the flashy effects to kick in but you get a grab bag of other goodies in the meantime. I know some people who schedule morning time because they feel energized during the day, and another who does it after work to unwind.

Me? I just like having an excuse to take hot showers at lunchtime :)
One trick you can do is get a part time job or a consulting job where you can work fewer than 40 hours per week. Then you'll have time where you're not exhausted to work on open source stuff.

Exercising is for sure a net gain in time. It makes you feel healthier, happier about yourself, and helps you think more clearly.

Here's me: https://github.com/andrewrk
My mother is an adjunct math professor at three universities in the Western NY area. She teaches 7 classes to support the family while she's also going for her PhD (she's got like a 3.98 GPA or something btw).

The thing that gets me is that we look around and the campuses have millions to put up for new buildings and infrastructure and sports, etc. But here they can't give my mother a full time job with benefits.

Education is nothing more than an industry. They don't care if I pass or succeed, as long as they've got a job at the end of the day. I'm convinced of that.
Thanks, that's an insightful comment as on the statically typed side I have experience primarily in Java/c#/c++ etc. which is really what I had in mind when making the comparison. This makes me even more curious to explore Haskell one day.
A very cool alternative! Didn't know it exists. Well, I'm learning about OpenCV within Python's ecosystem so never checked anything besides EmguCV.

Maybe I could write another demo with this Nuget! :)

Regards,
Me to. The compiler would need to output at any optimization passes which handle multiplication factorization, which could be quite lengthy!
> English juries tend not to convict people for rape.

[Citation needed]
You're right.

They say "professor with experience in her field."

Which is what an adjunct provides when done right.

Unfortunately enrollment is a big deal at schools, and sometimes more classes are offered than there are people to teach them.

And some adjuncts are simply just not qualified to teach anything because they have no experience that's relevant. Seen it too often in my time in public higher ed.
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Yes, I've gotten requests for follow up questions, links to other bugs that mine was a duplicate of, and indications of when a particular bug would be fixed. In one case I was "doing it wrong" and I got a pointer on how to do it right.
That would be a change to the principle that sex only is allowed if it can lead to procreation, on which the ban of birth control is based.
Yeah, you are right. It doesn't make sense.
On the other hand, 2FA opens up the "I lost my phone" customer support channel which might be just as weak.

For example, you can turn on 2FA for sending money via Bank of America's webpanel. As in, you log in with username/password and need 2FA for some restricted actions.

Well, phone up customer support and they'll remove your 2FA if you can provide them some secret details... all of which are displayed on the webpanel to anyone that was already able to log in.

It's a joke.
Another thing that is never discussed is that many of the schools relying heavily on adjuncts, including a lot of community colleges, face increasingly tight budgets. This literature (there are enough such articles that it is a literature) tries to give the impression that wealthy schools like Harvard are taking advantage of individuals that have fallen on hard times.

In reality, a lot of adjuncts are, as you point out, professionals that do this on the side. Still others are not looking for full-time work, but want to maintain a connection to the academic world.
They do:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/18/9753888/amazon-two-factor...
I think that prolific devs are the ones who joined a particular community early and were able to ride the wave of success as that particular community grew. They often don't have a day job - Either they have enough savings that they dont need to work or they struggle on a daily basis to make ends meet... Or they are fortunate enough that their employer allows them to work on OSS during office hours.

Being a prolific developer doesn't have as much to do with talent as people might think - Developers become well known by blogging, speaking at multiple conferences or just being in the right place at the right time (whilst making lots of open source contributions).

Also, famous developers tend to own/maintain many (often several hundreds) of different open source projects instead of focusing their energy on just one project. There are rare exceptions like Solomon Hykes of Docker - But if you just made one popular open source project, then that's usually not enough to be known in the community.

Also, where you live makes a difference. Your odds are much better if you live in Silicon Valley. I know a developer who created/maintains about 5 projects each with 2000+ GitHub stars and he is still not well known because he doesn't benefit from network effects like devs who are living in the US.
You can get the main motivation for glProgramBinary right from the horse's mouth (i.e. https://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/get_program_binary... ):

This is a very useful path for applications that wish to remain portable by shipping pure GLSL source shaders, yet would like to avoid the cost of compiling their shaders at runtime.
Think about it like this: when the Senior Research Fellow from DuPont (back from when the fabled Experimental Station was still a thing) who is teaching one really good graduate level course at Penn as adjunct, when this guy walks up to the Chair, saying that his office space shouldn't be cut or he won't be back, the Chair will listen. When the adjunct at Tumbleweed State College who is teaching 3 courses of Gen. Chem. says the same, the chair will laugh.

The ones who get cheated is of course the students. They will get a credential instead of an education because no adjunct is going to get into an argument about teaching, and you can't force anyone to take the credential serious.
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Really? In what way would this happen?
> You can get 460 nanometer LED lights from grow shops online

What about these: http://www.ebay.com/bhp/460nm-led ?
is this still a problem? from personal experience, the last time I needed pain managed the #1 concern was not getting me addicted, #2 was pain management itself. they were very cautious to start anything "strong" (morphine) and very, very eager to end it. from these and other anecdotal experiences I have a hard time accepting that doctors handing out strong painkillers like candy and getting their patients hooked on them is a genuine problem, do you have any data?
You can also just boil your pasta in the kettle.
Pretty nasty that it even has that default value IMO.

Better to error if not set, let the dev explicitly put in some dummy values that's ever desired - that's why I said above "not sure why you're doing this", I assumed it was a setting of yours, not a '[neglect-to-]setting'!
There's a huge difference between those links and showing systemic abuse. When I actually go and read the stories behind your links, what you state is that 13 people in 10 years abusing their position at the NSA to spy on their significant others (and subsequently being fired, resigning or being relieved of their positions[1]) is a stone's throw away from having a federal agent being assigned to watch me personally have intercourse. This says to me that the average American should be about as worried about being spied on by the NSA as they are worried about being struck by lightning on a clear day. The odds might go up slightly if they had a jealous ex working at the NSA.

I have better odds of getting shot by a government agent than being spied on, and I generally manage to get through my day without worrying that I'll die at the hands of the US government. I think that's probably the biggest reason that so few people outside of HN/Reddit/etc. care about Snowden leaks. I can find plenty of people that are upset about police brutality, and there's lots of discussion about implementing body cameras, discrimination in law enforcement, etc. because I can find new, documented evidence of someone getting shot by a cop every other week. It's still not at the level where I worry that I'm going to get shot by a cop. Snowden showed potential for abuse, not actual abuse. That's why "I have nothing to hide" persists.

[1] The source document for the LOVEINT stories (not linked from either of those articles) is https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2013/grassley_let...
2FA is useful if someone knows your password (e.g. you re-use it, and it gets leaked) but it's not useful in this case. I have 2FA setup on my accounts, and when ever contacting customer support I've never had to prove I own the device.
Any recommendation what one (as a customer of Amazon) can do today ?

2FA does not help here as someone goes through support channel which looks like bypasses 2FA

Also concerned if the same trick can be applied to Amazon Cloud services, as there one can also run up a big bill pretty quickly.
They're dropping for various reasons, I'm sure. But first and foremost because a bachelor's degree isn't worth anything anymore. Both my sister and my father have Bachelor's degrees and my dad's a janitor and my sister's a nurse. Granted, a nurse isn't that bad, but cleaning up people's feces on top of everyone in the practice being against her going to school to become a doctor (so she doesn't have to "ask permission" or clean up after people anymore) is a disgrace. And for my dad -- he's working with the lowest of the low. It's just awful that someone can bury themselves in 100k of debt to barely make more than minimum wage and clean up shit.
Diversity of types of loan is worth it (card, installment debt). If you're borrowing $1000 at 7% for a year it's on par with the fees for a secured credit card.
Exactly. All of that, plus basic sleep hygiene. If you are complaining about sleep and energy levels, and yet you haven't been following sleep hygiene rules religiously for at least 6 weeks, then you're just fooling yourself.

These are easy to implement, they are proven medically, and they have tons of other benefits for heart health etc.
Rape, along with paedophilia and drunken driving, has turned into the latest refer madness.

Is it a problem? Yes, of course, just like child pornography, DUIs, etc. are known societal taboos for good reason. But because absolutely no one can come out and speak rationally about these subjects, lest they appear in support of it, the authorities use it to push more and more unjust laws in the name of 'protecting the women and children', keeping us safe from terrorists, etc.

DUI has been used to eviscerate the Bill of Rights, specifically the 4th Amendment. Fishing road-blocks are a common sight in almost all US states, now. I'm no conspiriacy theorist, but I'm starting to wonder if the continued lowering of BAC w/ regard to DUI and also anti-smoking laws are actually being used to limit the plebs ability to congregate together and discuss issues. Instead, we're all being led to isolation at home.

Highest commented article on Slashdot right now relates to Utah's law requiring IT workers to report child porn, and child support laws are now being used to effectively bring back indentured servitude and restrict freedom of travel, almost exclusively for men.

On college campuses, the feds have forced institutions to enforce their own version of SJW law when related to rape, where all common American (from British) forms of jurisprudence have been tossed aside.
Sadly this is a very common message in popular culture. In a race to be "gritty and realistic" there are so many cop and military shows where torture is used by the "good guys" in service to the plot, with positive results. It's a shame how willingly and unthinkingly hollywood puts forth this torture propaganda, most of the time of their own volition.
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