skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In collaboration with: movements.org" - in Assange's article[1] about his meeting with Eric Schmidt he mentions:

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Gen Next also backs an NGO, launched by Cohen toward the end of his State Department tenure, for bringing internet-based global “pro-democracy activists” into the US foreign relations patronage network. The group originated as the “Alliance of Youth Movements” with an inaugural summit in New York City in 2008 funded by the State Department and encrusted with the logos of corporate sponsors.

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In 2011, the Alliance of Youth Movements rebranded as “Movements.org.” In 2012 Movements.org became a division of “Advancing Human Rights,” a new NGO set up by Robert L. Bernstein after he resigned from Human Rights Watch (which he had originally founded) because he felt it should not cover Israeli and US human rights abuses. Advancing Human Rights aims to right Human Rights Watch’s wrong by focusing exclusively on “dictatorships.” Cohen stated that the merger of his Movements.org outfit with Advancing Human Rights was “irresistible,” pointing to the latter’s “phenomenal network of cyberactivists in the Middle East and North Africa.” He then joined the Advancing Human Rights board, which also includes Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in occupied Afghanistan. In its present guise, Movements.org continues to receive funding from Gen Next, as well as from Google, MSNBC, and PR giant Edelman, which represents General Electric, Boeing, and Shell, among others.

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Fascinating stuff - a glimpse into the murky world of international politics for someone like me who generally has no idea.

[1] https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
People probably read too much into your comment, hence the down votes. Reason would dictate from the very small amount of info provided that AngelList merely made the email out to look like it was from OP. To say they spoofed them email headers would've gotten 3x the number of up-votes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wUdetAAlY
Wondering how big this is compare to Netherlands :)
Marijuana has been legal there for long time.
As a counterpoint, I've emailed/responded to emails from AL on a few occasions and received non-automated responses in a reasonable timeframe. I reported a company for posting false salary ranges and previously had some questions about a "top n% of profiles" thing I was apparently bucketed into.
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I've heard it before and it's not their wild guess but a seriously discussed idea. It's just that it's hard to set up experiments to test these sort of ideas.
Nope, if you've got a cable like this it will fit without any problem:

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> I sometimes think there's a built in pomposity in the whole attitude of hiring...

Of course there is. At a basic level, that's what hiring is.

With this now-popular attitude that "1 bad hire is worse then 100 good ones" or something like that, how could it be anything else?

Imagine the pressure that puts on the hiring teams.
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Those sorts of developers exist on every platform. The trendy platforms are simply too new for non-adaptable developers to have yet made themselves visible.
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This particular incident? No. It's the fact that they're doing this kind of thing at all is the problem. People have been worrying for years about the filter bubble that Google put you in; could you imagine if they tried to skew the US election? This document provides some evidence that they've certainly been thinking along those lines.
my impression has been that node.js reached the top of its hip curve a few years ago, same with golang. not that they're disused, they're just not obsessive-compulsive topics. this is mostly based on what i (don't) see and hear at work and here.

again, based on what i see on hn, github is actually falling out of favor (we'll see if they can reverse the trend [sic] with the newly released features; the search removal inspires little confidence).

twitter has been around for too long to be trending upwards, it's like facebook. the populace split into users and abstinents has ossified. it's even more pronounced with linkedin which has been around much longer.

i have no idea what's supposed to be trending in programming instead though. recently it's felt to me like a plateau of sorts.
It probably varies by geography, but the .Net scene I was in really didn't have a bias toward CI at all (or testing, or almost any decent development practices).

I wont argue about it, our experiences differ, and that's cool :)
I'm not saying the machines attacking you aren't violating the law. I'm saying that publishing an IP address of someone's router, along with step by step directions of how to log into it, along with screenshots of you logging into it, is a violation of the computer fraud and abuse act. The law doesn't care where you got the address. And the reality is that that router's owner probably has no idea they are part of a botnet attacking other machines. I suggest you go back to university and take a few computer ethics courses before you wind up with a criminal record from your next project.
How exactly they are shocking to climate scientists?

It's my understanding that climate change is advancing pretty much just like climate models predict and there is no surprise here. Variations from year to year can be large.
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If you don't have 3-5 years experience in language/framework X, no jobs in language/framework X will be forthcoming. People hire based on what you know, not your ability to learn. A new hire who can "hit the ground running" is an asset; one who can't is a liability.
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> He seemed to me to be criticizing people who want to make changes to the code without reasoning about the system, assuming that if they mess something up the existing tests will catch it and tell them.

I think where tests really help is when it's not possible to sensibly reason about the system because [looks at current codebase] e.g. it's horrifying interwoven ball of mud that's never heard the word "no" or met a Perl module or methodology it didn't want to halfheartedly adopt in the last 10+ years.
What's such a bad idea about Dropbox? A single folder that automatically syncs your files across devices.

Even for less technical people it makes sense and it is easily explained. Put the files in this folder and they are safe.
Alongside the 12" Macbook, there are a few ultrabooks that use it, notably the Google Chromebook Pixel and the Dell XPS 13.
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That's no different than any other TS code having to interact with regular JS.
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The first way is wrong. To show you clearly way: If you apply 1000 tests to a sample in which everyone is ill, there is 0 percent of false positives because a false positive requires the person to be sane.

So to detect false positives in a mathematical way, you should apply the test only to sane people and now the proportion positive/total is an estimation of the false positive rate.
>Hard to see how it's much different to tobacco really.

For one, you don't have to smoke it (where the majority of negative health effects come from). You can eat it, steep it, drink it.

Comparing it to tobacco is ridiculous.
Before CPAP, How many times do you actually remember waking up in middle of night?
You could find eyes in the video and alter them so that they look like user looks directly towards camera.
Indeed there were lots of competing standards and technologies, but C was still the kind of "lingua franca" among most (professional?) programmers. Many people used to write really intricate programs in it without relying on anything but standard library functions. It was about raw talent and people used to take pride in the way a program was written and not just what its effect is.

And yes, it all started to change in the mid 90's with the advent of Windows and the web.
The changes are architectural but also ethical. I particularly don't like Firefox switching to a walled garden for extensions, adding digital rights management black boxes, baking in commercial software like Pocket, intending to abandon XUL for better security of non-technical users. But there's also much more (https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5).

Your implication that he's calling it a unique new browser is either intentionally disengenous or confused. A "browser product" is a product made from an existing browser: Firefox. There's nothing in the linked post that presents it how you do.

Pale Moon's fork fixes some important ethical (and aesthetic) issues I have with Firefox's current direction. I'm glad that both (and icecat, iceweasel, etc) can coexist because they're open source. Re-forking from a later version seems reasonable to me since not that many people think the above issues are important. As the post said, there aren't enough contributors to keep up with the evolving web. Re-baseing from an acceptable later Firefox version would give me another few years of breathing room.

The only part of this I don't agree with is the existing Firefox extension ecosystem not being compatible with the new Pale Moon. But I guess as Firefox abandons them the value of the old ecosystem dimishes.
Bullshit. Each one of us is different and copes with ones own sets of constraints and conditions of different severity. We are not even a homogeneous group, you fucking cosplaying idiots. That's why the term spectrum has been used.
I stand corrected. Thanks :)
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> are you serious? thc and nicotine are two different drugs. they are different. they do different things. and the sky is blue and 2 plus 2 equals 4.

They are different, but they have many similarities. They're used under similar circumstances. The business model around them is very similar. I would expect the industry that forms around it to ultimately behave very much like the tobacco/alcohol/etc. industries, and so it is weird to treat one differently from the other. Or do you think there are important differences?
I see wonderful symmetry here. There are TrendyCos (hot startup unicorns), BigCos (established companies like google or amazon or microsoft) and UnknownCos (not in the limelight so there is not much information about them). Likewise there are TrendyDevs (hotshots who produce one heavily github-starred framework after another), BigCoDevs (multiple years of experience at one of the BigCos, probably were responsible for some important part of one of their numerous services) and UnknownDevs (been there done that, hard to say).

And here is the rub. There are certainly many undervalued gems among UnknownCos and UnknownDevs but also many abysmally bad workplaces and programmers. So you either have some inside knowledge about them (a referral, an acquaintance working at UnknownCo), have some magic method for separating the gems (like tptacek claims to possess) or it is just too risky to consider them.
The old perception of .NET devs is that they're provincial in their approach to tech outside of Microsoft. Stacks are always top to bottom straight from MSDN or P&P: jQuery, razor, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, EF, MSSQL, TFS. Part of this is MS fault: the silver/gold partner licenses provide financial incentive for businesses to stay in the fold by being MS stack proficient. I've seen Biztalk shoe-horned into a product mostly because it was included in the quarterly MSDN mailout CD package and hey, it's free!

To some degree, it's true. Many of my colleagues never touched node.js til Microsoft started using it. Or Linux til Azure supported it. Or functional programming til F#, or git etc.

Java developers seem more comfortable searching online and piecing together a solution from oracle, apache common, other 3rd parties. It feels like they're better at critically inspecting packages for performance, applicability, adoption since they don't have a mother corp creating or blessing every product. nuget has helped a lot of .NET devs come out of their cave and explore the great unknown that is open source.

Hopefully Microsoft's recent reinvention of itself changes both this perception of .NET devs and whatever reality is behind it.
What I'm getting at is how is Ethereum immune to the social factors currently plaguing Bitcoin? I don't see anything except "trust us".
How many Ruby on Rails Rockstars and Node.js Ninjas really, truly know computer science? My guess is "way fewer than is touted".
I don't mean to be hurtful, but you sound like you've exactly the same biases the original post is about, and you're rationalizing. Seriously, not all good hackers fit any cookie-cutter definition of a hacker.
Since I'm currently trying to convince myself not to buy a pinball table that was one of my first initial thoughts as well. They should probably get in contact with an engineer from Stern.
I can only disagree and that thread gave me an excellent impression of the TS team[0]. They cleanly noted that this was expected behaviour, the reasoning behind it (which calls back to one of the underlying roles of typescript) and how to mitigate it. Can't say the same of your vote-spamming of every comment though.

[0] as someone mostly uninterested in TS
>The entire model is predicated on not paying in each year exactly how much you take out in benefits. That would completely defeat the purpose. So, of course young people pay more than they take out, while they are young

and here's the gist of the scam. It's a pyramid scheme where the new entrants i.e. the young people pay for the old people's costs.

The young people would be far better off investing the money they are paying for old people's healthcare and then using that money for themselves when they are old.

And how much have the old people paid into ACA? They couldn't have possibly paid any because the ACA didnt exist when they were working. So where does the money to pay for their healthcare come from if not from the young people.

So yes they are being ripped off. Young people are having their hard earned money taken to keep old people on life support so they live longer to take more money from young people.
IIRC, marijuana is not legal in the Netherlands, but is 'tolerated'.
Yes, that's what I meant -- not sufficient.

Whitelisting seems to be working out well for Apple. It's a big part of why they're the most secure smartphone platform.
consider adjusting your resume. could just be presentation. :)

Specifically, if it doesn't say AWS in the first sentence, you're doing it wrong.
> Well, with the last release, typescriot supposedly can compile plain js.

How does the ability to compile plain JS alter its goal of being a JS superset?
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On point 1 - you have to pay at or above market or you don't get the H1B. So part of the game that companies play is defining the role properly to overpay the title but underpay the experience you are getting. (And defining the job description in a way that is tough to find locally) There was a time on Wall Street that you could identify the false postings based on where the resumes were to be sent.
Funny how the conclusion is basically "Don't use `var`, use `let` instead" - even though almost all documentation/examples exclusively use the `var` keyword!
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So the magnets are essentially programmable and "3d printable"? I know nothing about magnets...can you "wipe" them and reprint with a different pattern? If so and the 3d printer can be reasonably miniaturized I'm envisioning a robot with an attached mini 3d printer that can print task specific magnet tools :D
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That "convenient way" has been incredibly damaging to the internet. The primary benefit of the internet was that every peer can publish without needing permission of a 3rd party. IP Masquerading / NAT removes that ability, and has cause a massive amount of centralization. These gatekeepers are necessary to workaround the limitations of every host having to share a party line. Regular use of RFC 1918 for most hosts has prevented the development of real network software.

If you want the internet to continue to degrade into something closer to cable TV, then continue requiring central gatekeepers. If, instead, you care about the future of the internet, then please use globally routable addresses instead of the imprimatur we call NAT.
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Recently I learned a good trick for turning of your internal editor while writing, which is one of the things discussed in the essay. Try turning the screen of your laptop off so that you can't see what you are typing, and just type away for a set period of time. This helps you "allow for error" and not worry over every word or phrase you are putting down. I can usually get hundreds of words out of this trick in just 20 minutes or so, after which you can turn the screen back on and have something to edit, revise, and polish.
You'd be surprised. There's a lot of shops out there who have never heard of CI/CD/Automated Tests/etc.
We pay you peanuts but you have stock options so you're part of the company success

The tricker one for me, personally, was a slight variation on this:

- We pay you decently enough - below market rate but enough - and since you have stock options...

Due solely to my own stupidity, it took nearly a decade of hard work before I realised that gambling on other peoples' success wasn't the best long-term option for me.
Someone needs to give this company a marketing budget...

Is there a catch i'm really not getting, because these seem WAY too good to be true, and i'm really surprised that they aren't being used literally everywhere already.
Yes, and I think lowering the "stakes" of the paragraph is important. Sometimes switching to longhand on a legal pad helps me, because then I know that I'm not working on the final, final version, and I can allow the paragraph to be, temporarily at least, imperfect.
Jared Cohen is a director of Google Ideas, now called Jigsaw under Alphabet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(company)

The email is lacking context, but it appears that they gather data from open sources, not from some sinister surveillance program. And they use this data in open partnership with Al Jazeera. And the company itself is not the main "Google" that is tied to search an ads, but was launched, at inception, as "global technology think-tank".

So I see no relationship between what's discussed in these emails and hypothetical scenarios you're describing.
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The current situation is that 2.1 (currently in beta) is finished with Mike on the board, and after that Mike is "out".
I don't like it but I do understand it from the employers perspective. Most hiring is done to avoid risk. Went to a top school, working at a popular company and already using the tech we use? Come in for an interview. Missing one of the three? We'll phone screen. Missing two out of the three? Not worth my time.
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You mean that on top of its closed firmware this is closed software as well?
</sarcastic tone>

Forget the shiny stuff they ship with their TVs with and use an external hardware instead. It's not ideal but you'd be amazed by the things a Raspberry Pi2 can do when wired to a TV.
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NaN tagging exists since the dawn of time. CDC 6600 had reserved NaN mantissa bits... in 1963! The IEEE floating point standard just carried on these features. Many lisp implementation used NaN for packing data in the 80's/90's. Google for: lisp nan tagged data.
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A lot of companies founded by young people, hire other young people and believe the best tech is what they learned in college: Command-line python, javascript. They don't realize that teachers teach python because it's easy to teach, rather than because it's the best language for the real world, or that tools make people more productive in the real world (where they can be afforded).
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The quote sounds right to me. If the act of impersonating someone is indeed a criminal offense, you can not smooth that over with a contract.

Voting by proxy is not impersonation, you give someone the right to act (vote in this case) in your name. Thus, no criminal offense.

The other cases:
Assisted suicide is a criminal offense in many countries. For example (similar, but not the same), there has been some legal struggle over "Sterbehilfe" here in Germany which garnered quite some media attention.

Boxing – I might be mistaken, but perhaps "beating someone" is not a criminal offense as long as it is not against the other persons will?

All these things hinge on very subtle differences in wording. For example the terms might say: "AngelList reserves the right to send mails on your behalf" which grants them the right to send mails to third parties in your name, but I'd be surprised if law would allow them to state "AngelList reserves the right to claim your identity".
Irrelevant to your main point - I am surprised you didn't have at least an intro to probability and statistics, and later a statistical mechanics course as part of a physics undergrad curriculum.

Relevant to your main point - I have worked with many clinicians. Most of them have had a fairly tenuous grasp of the statistics they were working with, which matches your experience in training I think. A couple had much better understanding, but had driven that education themselves.