skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's also the case that you lose the code review if you force push to a PR's branch after adding in a typo fix and squashing locally, right?

Not as far as I can tell; I've force-pushed pull request branches many times, and the code reviews seem to stick around. (Perhaps they wouldn't if the code changed more drastically, like files disappearing; I haven't tried that.)
Remove the nice dorms, cafeteria, and fitness centers.

You know the dorms and dining halls at these schools were pretty much the same 20 years ago (before tuition costs started mushrooming as insanely as they have) as they are now, right? So perhaps one should look elsewhere as to where the rising costs have been coming from.

(Fitness centers being an optional expense at many schools, and something from a different animal than the subject of basic operational + living expense costs).
Valuations are ultimately determined by buyers and sellers. If nobody is buying or selling stock, then any valuation doesn't hold much weight.
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The traditional wisdom was to always build A-quality housing, so people from B could upgrade to A, people in C to the recently vacated B etc. Building the possible quality increased the quality of housing available for everyone, whereas building as cheaply as possible gave us "the projects".

Unfortunately the demand for A-quality housing is now global, and building luxury condos doesn't mean an upgrade for the doctor down the street, it means more investment opportunity for foreign capital. The modern A-quality housing is firmly out of the reach of your traditional upper middle class, at least in world-class cities.
As an informal observation, one of the best parts about older professors was that they avoid the extreme nuance that some of the younger professors and TAs get into. Although that can be interesting also, I feel as if it sometimes misses the bigger picture.

Older lecturers have had a lifetime to think about their problem domain and are often able to convey things very clearly and un-confrontationally. They aim to challenge you rather than defeat you. They are also less concerned with proving themselves and thus are generally more willing to lecture about things that are more in line with their true beliefs and aren't just designed to make them look smart. It's hard to put into words I suppose what makes talks like these so great.

On another note: this was basically a philosophy lecture which I think is great.
I was reading more about it and found 2 Erlang Factory videos where authors talk about deploying and using NixOS in production:

Susan Potter - "From Zero To Production" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vVZzu6HMaQ

Eric Merritt -"Managing And Releasing Erlang Systems In The Cloud With A Fully Declarative Package Manager" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSFJH3Lw6I
Sure, just saying stuff pops up in that price range if you're patient. This is better location and has a pool! https://www.openlistings.com/p/257-justin-dr-san-francisco-c...

Peninsula sorted by price: https://www.openlistings.com/z/94134?focus_params_id=172-swe...
30 minutes doesn't seem that bad. If you commute to Manhattan, you're looking at least 45 minutes door to door from most directions.

Not to worry, within another 30 years technology will solve the problem and mass transit will achieve great speeds, like 100 mph. The average commuter train/subway now has to be less than 50 mph.

Get on a train in Mountain View and arrive in San Francisco in 15 minutes.
You mean hacking has gone main stream? I must admit I've been living under a rock, but if that's the case please tell me where can I see it? I would agree that computer nerds have become more acceptable, but popular culture having positive references to it and most people owning computers do not constitute the main-streaming of hacker culture.
I really like the concepts brought by Nix. Guix is also a nice derivative, which uses Scheme as a DSL to describe packages and its own Scheme-implemented init system.

Explicit package definitions bring 2 great advantages. First, one can easily modify them programatically (to e.g. enable or disable options) and build the resulting custom package from source. Like Gentoo on steroids. Second, one can build packages from source and compare them bitwise with binaries offered by mirrors. This is incredibly important to avoid malicious attacks. See guix challenge command.

I dislike a bit that some Nix packages are very non-minimal, built with every possible optional dependency baked in. I consider this a security threat. Not so long ago, Firefox came with Flash by default. Getting seemingly innocent CLI packages like Mutt ended up pulling a lot of stuff like Python I don't need via GPG. I would love to have something more minimal, like what Arch gives.
You can interpret it that way, but Orwell really did become more cynical as to the feasibility and even desirability of revolutions as time went on. INGSOC was Newspeak for "English Socialism" after all.
The evolution of whales
I'm not affiliated with this company at all, but I think it's worth pointing out that Open Whisper Systems is the nonprofit responsible for Signal, the "Snowden-approved crypto app."[1] No idea what it'd be like to work there, but they're solving important modern problems regarding privacy online and it's only kind of alluded to in the listing itself. Could be really cool.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/11/signals-snowden-approved-phone-...
Another interesting side effect of Apple DOS is the extraordinary fertile ground it created for software companies to copy-protect their applications.

Piracy was already a big deal back then and pretty much every single software publisher on the Apple ][ had developed their own copy protection mechanism by simply hijacking the low-level vectors of Apple DOS.

Some of these copy protections were quite frankly amazing in ingenuity.
Don Worth and Pieter Lechner were idols of mine at the time. I would never have been able to crack a single floppy back then without this wonderful book.

D5 AA 96 forever.
Only Mac and Linux coders; Windows coders can't wear jumpsuits to work ;)

Seriously, money trails are easier to suss out nowadays contrary to popular belief. At least in the past you needed to make lots of phone calls, write letters or get out of your seat to have F2Fs with potential leads or leaders. Only thing easier nowadays if you have cash, you can obfuscate with stubborn deniability and lots of lawyers. With all of the supposed anonymity with bitcoin they got to the bottom of Silk Road, didnt they? Family of the PM of Malaysia should be easy. I live in SE Asia, and this is par for the course in some more than other countries here.
You are wrong.

First, historically, race was only firmly established as a legacy of the colonial era. For example, in the colonial era, how was it decided in Louisiana if one man was black or not? The answer is, less than 1/32 of his ancestry must be of "black blood"[0]. This sort of thinking and arbitrary ruling is how race was established as a social construct.

Science at the time, based on the physiology of skull shapes and other body features, was shaped in order to draw a line between the "superior" race and the "inferior" race; this is a belief we sometimes still carry. In modern science we know that there is enough variation in people that it is basically impossible to concretely associate certain genes with certain races[1]. So in fact, race IS a social construct; race is the generalizations we unfairly make.

[As a bonus, any two humans average 99.5% the same DNA]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics
It's true that the comment that can no longer be deleted is still subject to downvoting. If that turns out to be a problem, there are things we can do to fix it, so do let us know if you see signs of that.
Yes, but the page in question is arguing that approval/rank voting is better because it doesn't always elect the majority's first choice.
Definitely a subfield thing in part. Highly theoretical CS PhDs (complexity theory, algorithms, etc - the folks who are mathematicians in computer scientist's clothing) almost always require postdocs, both because they tend to be less heavily recruited by industry, and because the vast majority of departments are shying away from theory in favor of things that bring in more grant money and industry partnerships.

Departments aren't stupid, though. They realize that grabbing star grad students with highly marketable skills in industry as they are walking out of their dissertation defense is probably the only shot they'll have at getting them. They will often "try out" industry or take a job at Google or MSR on the advice of their PI, noting that it's just as good as a postdoc but pays four or five times as much. Problem is, they then have to walk away from their $180k/year to take a faculty position that might not pay half that and could very well dead-end in a few years if the department leadership changes (or any of a dozen other precipitating factors) and they don't get tenure.

All that said, I personally know of tenure-track professors at two of the schools you mentioned, plus ones at quite a few other top-flight CS departments (Cornell, Toronto, Washington, Cal), who were hired straight out of grad school.
A very cool sonification of income inequality along the New York subway:
https://datadrivendj.com/tracks/subway
We're using price per square foot. We are a member of the MLS, so we have every home and condo for sale.

You know what looks crazy? Not factoring in size. We did it and it looked really goofy.

(I'm the founder of Estately)
There's a sort of "feedback loop inversion" effect in play where transit caters to extremes of poverty and wealth and not the middle. For example, Palo Alto's Caltrain stops are not high-end real estate because transit runs through it - they're high-end because they have become a major destination for tech workers over the course of a few decades. On the other hand, West Oakland BART is within easy reach of many major destinations but it's been heavily resistant to gentrification: major firms do not have a presence there, and it's historically a working-class community, not a wealthy suburb. BART's deployment there is effectively transit as a "handout" policy, a way to make sure low-income workers get to their low-income jobs.

But places that are a bit outlying and don't have a big job market, like much of Marin, sit in a nebulous zone in between: they aren't really "in demand" right now, and that gives the community leverage to stomp out anything that would change that.
I would switch to Brave immediately except for extensions like Lastpass and Vimium are simply too integral to abandon, however that may change [0].

Ultimately, advertising is a form of inefficiency both for the end-users and producers. Perfect world, user's are aware of products and services they do/could/would want without annoying grabs for their attention while producer's can either reduce prices or focus capital elsewhere. Finding models that successfully reduce advertising inefficiencies is better for everyone. Consider how much better the internet is than television and print newspapers/magazines where you actually pay to consume what contains a substantial amount of advertisement (over 1/4 for television).

Because advertisement is a necessary efficiency I don't think just blocking advertisements is really a solution. For now, some model of efficient advertisement is better than the growing number of bloated and data gathering websites out there. I don't see any of the other browser vendors making efforts to move this forward.

Yes, a new browser is annoying and then again perhaps we wouldn't need one if Mozilla hadn't fired Eich for his political contributions?

[0] https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/253
"One thing has changed: nowadays you can be even more reclusive and asocial than in the early, diskette-swapping, meatspace-meeting days..."

...or in the even earlier days when all the hackers hung out together in a terminal room. I learned a lot about Unix in the early '80s by sitting side by side with some accomplished Unix hackers, to the point where the powers that be gave me the root password on the system (a PDP 11/45 running Seventh Edition Unix).
OK, he got me. He just sounds too much like people who say similar things on days other than April 1.
...which they do in most other western countries. Trained in de-escalation I mean.
Voice is good for South East Asia region.
How much is the difference between academia and industry? Can you share some numbers or ranges?
Tesla Model 3 Orders Surge Even Before Its Unveiling
Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388418 .
>The external reality is that there are real, physical differences between people that correlate at least somewhat with what we perceive as "race".

This doesn't seem to contradict what they are saying here though.

From the article:

>Here’s what they mean: if you were to travel across the Eurasian continent from Portugal to Japan, say, there would be no river, forest or discrete boundary where people suddenly started looking “Asian” (or “European” if you traveled from east to west). Instead, changes in physical appearance would occur so gradually and imperceptibly that you probably wouldn’t notice. You’d only be aware that, once in Japan, people definitely looked different than in Portugal.

As far as I can tell, saying that race is a social construct just the age-old insight that the way we slice up the world into categories tends to be somewhat arbitrary. Race is a social construct just like species is a social construct. Why are wolves and dogs different species? You can come up with the most precise definition of species you want (which is difficult) to explain "why", but any possible definition you come up with is still somewhat arbitrary. You could have chosen a different definition which would make them the same species, or you could have split the (wolf + dog) category into three categories. This doesn't require anybody to ignore the differences between wolves and dogs. It just suggests that maybe we shouldn't get too attached to thinking of a husky as a dog, maybe it should be thought of as some in between species?
... which would duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388418 .
Agreed. If you ask the person's sex is the shirt sexist? This feels like a reach too far, stoking people's discomfort for clicks.
Yes, and lists [not necessarily linked lists] could have a Monad instance too. Does this make lists a “functional concept”?
In a previous career I was a Park Ranger, working in Yellowstone National Park.

During my final tour in the park (this is early 2000s), at one point I had some time off coming that wasn't for other uses. Normally on my days off I would drive the 1.5 hours into Jackson, Wyoming to do some grocery shopping and hit the library. Check out a few books and borrow a computer for a little bit to check my email or browse the Internet. The ranger station only had dialup that could only be used in the evenings.

Anyways, this time, I was blessed with two days off back to back with nothing planned, so I booked a backcountry campsite clear on the other side of the park in the Cache Creek area. If you look at a map of Yellowstone, it's in the far upper right corner.

I got up early before dawn and drove the ~3 hours up to the trailhead. It wasn't a bad hike. Beautiful day, clear and sunny. I seem to recall it was about 5 miles in to the campsite, a bit strenuous near the beginning but easier once you got into the valley. I took my time. Set up camp about dinner time, made some mac and cheese and enjoyed nature. Didn't say a word. Just ate in silence.

The sun set, and the illumination I had was provided by my flashlight and a small battery powered lantern. I read some by lantern. It was chilly - yes, even in the summer Yellowstone gets a bit cold after sunset. Before going to bed, I turned the lantern off and just sat. Not doing anything but just sitting, looking and listening.

Stars.

So many stars.

One of the few times in my life I was ever able to see the band of the Milky Way was that night in Cache Creek. It was beautiful, but that wasn't the most amazing part.

The absolute quiet of the area allowed you to hear every single little sound and the darkness seemed to amplify them. You could hear even a slight breeze rustle everything around you.

And I could swear I heard wolves howling.

Sitting there beneath that huge blanket of stars surrounded by nothing more than the sounds of nature, I couldn't help but think that I'm looking at the same things, hearing the same things, that the Native Americans and early trappers in the area heard and saw, unspoiled by the modern world.

That hike gave me a deep appreciation for the need to protect these spaces. Not just as parks for everyone to visit, although that is important, but the importance of preserving the backcountry experience in as pristine and natural a condition as possible. At one point while I was working at YNP one of the other rangers told me that 90% of the visitors to YNP never venture more than 200 yards from the road. But for those who can make the hike out into the backcountry, the experience is more than worth it.

Also, as a side note, if you're interested in the National Parks and the (incredible) story of how we're protecting these places, I highly recommend Ken Burns' The National Parks: America's Best Idea. [0]

[0] http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/
Maybe it's that more side-projects are being bootstrapped rather than VC funded? It doesn't seem Fred Wilson has thought about that.
Merged discussions are at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388418 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11390545 .
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On finding a programming job
He wasn't fired. He quit after industry pressure (boycott from OkCupid and others) showed Mozilla would suffer greatly if he didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Mozilla
I would be interested in reading about how all of these are detected.

I know how some of them are, but not all. I predict others are in this boat, and interested in learning!
That doesn't refute the parent's point. There is more to race than some jackass using it as a means to discriminate. It is not just a "social construct".
That's not very nice, the guy was just trying to help.
...Dayum. And I say that working in AR. That is /solid/ tracking - although the "I'm a competitor" in me feels compelled to point out that this was done in a room specifically set up for it. Your mileage /will/ vary in your own spaces, but still... damn, that's good tracking.
With panopticlick, I consider lots of things very able to fingerprint users. I like that this site says it knows things about you without a previous visit. A site doesn't need to have seen you before and track you all over the web. A site can infer things from what is sent the very first time.

Of course, this isn't the first site to remind of us of that, but the reminders are still good, and interesting to learn about!
You're only getting half the equation. Remember that the other half - the half that's not about the human - is the computer /understanding the space you're in/. This is software that understands there's a wall thing there, for whatever understanding of "wall" it has.
Here's one for DC: http://www.estately.com/washington-dc-real-estate-by-transit...
I'm curious about these workflows where history matters so much, because people using them must be doing very different things than I do. I use 'git blame' every now and then, 'git show' more frequently, 'git bisect' practically never. I think I would spend at least two orders of magnitude more time squashing commits than I ever have to spend dealing with the consequences of a non-squashed history.

I did a rebase once because there was a big mess I was trying to clean up in order to make a merge work. I would be surprised if anyone has ever cared about the details.
And that's the problem with our society.
This shows just how powerful JavaScript can be --- without it, the site shows nothing.

...which is not entirely correct, since your user agent, request headers, and IP are still visible. There's plenty of other sites which will show you those without requiring any client-side scripting. Here's one just from a quick Google search:

http://www.xhaus.com/headers

(Interestingly, you can see GoogleBot's IP and request headers if you view Google's cached version of the page.)
>BART's deployment there is effectively transit as a "handout" policy

Is that really how it's framed?
Seems to be more common in engineers, and "smarter people," of which I argue are a larger-than-average makeup of the HN population:

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/night-owls-creative-intel...
Apple was a partnership when Ronald Wayne was involved. They didn't incorporate until 8 months later, in 1977.

(This leads me to ask "Why?" - corporations are made specifically to shield principles from liability for corporate debts. But maybe it was a bit harder to incorporate in 1976 than it is now.)
Here is your assination plot:

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

The sad state of Malaysian politics is that their politicians play the race card rather heavily; so even an openly corrupt and incompetant leader gets reelected because the ethnic Malays are afraid of loosing their privileges if the Chinese or Indian ethnic groups get bigger say in politics.
I had issues with previous versions due to pre 4 kernel drivers. I'm tempted to try it again.
It is absolutely ridiculous that we make growing humans get out of bed before 8 AM. Pubescent teens should be sleeping 10 hours a night, particularly boys who are in their growth spurts.

When I am emperor dictator, no schools open before 9AM.
I wonder if this kind of reporting is sponsored somehow by a competitor.

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He was essentially saying, Prove that it exists. And if you can’t or won’t prove it, then stop talking about it. Because without proof, the concept of race, as it pertains to variation in the human family, is too dangerous.

Let’s open a conversation about this. I’m curious to hear people’s lived experiences in this arena.

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Well the author already opened the conversation. Next up is probably a storm of Twitter responses casting this comapany as "racist".
I mean, it is a valid reason. My small town (4k~ people) did the same, high school started at 7:45am and each bus had both a high school / middle school route, and immediately after an elementary school route. Not only would you need twice as many busses, you'd need twice as many drivers. The cost difference is massive. That said, that doesn't mean they can't bump the start time of all the schools up an hour or two.
I did not say that this is impossible. It seems you are confused between accidental bugs and deliberate pranks. So, to address your issue: 1) it would not be unreasonable to expect that the "normal update" to their cars/robots should have passed some serious and rigorous testing/verification and the business/physical impact on end-user experience must have been assessed before rolling the "normal" updates; 2) and a serious business entity will not allow any such deliberate/damaging prank to slip through such a process.
I don't think anyone does `git bisect` all that often, but... when you need to do it, you hope the history is clean. Otherwise, figuring out what went wrong and where can be a nightmare.
is there a tipping point?
Of course we shouldn't. What we need is one simple rule: you pay for the damage caused by your indulgence.

If you can, fire away your jets. If you can't, don't. Just like every other aspect of life in a capitalistic society. I mean, can you imagine the chutzpah of hedge fund managers who claim they should be exempt from carbon tax because they are rich? Oh dear.

* Why are we talking about carbon tax here anyway?