skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not discussed in the paper, but another important point is line between lies and bullshit, and the reality distorting effects of BS:

"For the bullshitter, however, all bets are off. … He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of truth than lies are."

https://newrepublic.com/article/124803/donald-trump-not-liar
Let's say the market will pay $1000 for a ticket. The show would like to see the tickets be $100, so that people who only have $100 can see it.

Tickets go on sale for $100, and 100 are bought by a single scalper for $10000. The scalper now needs to sell only 10 tickets at the market rate to break even. Since he only needs to sell 10, he starts by trying to sell them for $1500, knowing he'll initially have few sales, but that he can lower his price later if he needs to.

Now what you have is tickets being sold for $1500, and likely empty seats in the theater. The show is making 1/10 the income it might have made and won't be able to run as long, so even fewer people can see it.

The larger the margin between market rate and actual rate, the fewer people who will see it, the shorter the show will run, and the more expensive tickets will be for normal people.

The smart move is for the theatre to sell all tickets at a falling price: every day, tickets for the show on day X are cheaper than they were yesterday by an amount determined by how many tickets were sold. All seats will be sold at the market rate and scalpers have little margin to take.
Another important point is that people in Japan are much more able (and likely) to travel by train for the kind of long journeys where refuelling/recharging would be important. So comprehensive charging station infrastructure is less of a prerequisite for most people to consider an electric vehicle.
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If we pick the political group "professionals" then Jeff Schmidt's book 'Disciplined Minds' may offer some insights. (It's not really about bullshit, but it is an excellent read).
Of the 14 male Cabinet ministers (excluding the PM) only 3 went to Oxford; of whom only Gove and Osbourne attended at the same time as Cameron.
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I'm sure the countless hours of homework in every subject that I was never interested in (of which that number was a majority) has helped me in my current career in not-any-of-those-subjects. /sarc

I feel like the most important things in school at that age are:

- Exposing people to a broad range of subjects that they might be interested in (and thus curious enough about such that they end up learning by themselves)

- Having teachers that can teach their subjects with enthusiasm, so that other people can see what the teacher finds exciting so that they too can (potentially) share in that enthusiasm and curiosity.
It's annoyed me periodically as well, in part because it's a bit of a stretch to call it a "technical term" (its precise definition is quite slippery between authors), and in part because to the extent there is well-defined content, it's mostly just PR trying to oversell more narrow results, which would be better called by some more accurate term.

Imo the slang did work okay in its original formulation, where it was mostly just an attention-grabbing headline used by Harry Frankfurt as the title of his book On Bullshit. But that's a joke that works okay the first time, and gets old if you keep repeating it.
That trains you to work outside your agreed working hours and to make you feel bad if you don't do it. Essentially this is how you train slaves.
Outsourcing is just the last step before automation.

In the same period the US lost 4mio jobs to China, the Chinese lost 15mio jobs to the robots.

Globalization is only easing the overarching trend ever so slightly until it's cheaper to do it automated.
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It's mostly that I got 'stuck' with iOS. Once you specialise it's hard to get out. If I change jobs now for anything other then iOS, I have to take a pay cut and I need to find someone that will hire me without any previous experience in... embedded, for example.

There are also a lot more of this 'poking' jobs when compared to first principle coding jobs. Specially for someone like me who never worked for huge corporations.
That accessibility thing: we are failing to build accessible digital products
Didn't read the article but this could be a very good thing. It could mean that health care is extremely good at saving lives so the only thing left is error.
> If scientists weren't so arrogant, they might realize that if we're spending years studying something it might be a bit more complex than a shovel.

If some programmers weren't so arrogant, they might realize that terrible code that doesn't follow any best practices and is completely unmaintainable solves a lot of day-to-day problems in many many fields/businesses.

The beauty of programming and the spread of knowledge today is that you absolutely need not be an expert to make something that works and automates real work in the real world, every day.

Again, "some programmers" (not all) seem to be overzealous in defending some kind of exclusive right to develop software the right way, as opposed to the wrong amateur way.

This irks me a little bit, not meant to be a caustic comment =) sorry if it sounds a bit like one.
Ugh.

Check the second result of [0] (entitled "What is Signal Desktop? How can I sign up?").

[0] https://encrypted.google.com/#q=%22signal+desktop+ios%22
The original source for the pseudo-profound bullshit seems to be http://wisdomofchopra.com/
qmail has already been pointed to elsewhere in this discussion. One of the qmail security principles, which are fast approaching 20 years old, is the maxim: Don't parse. This is directly applicable here.

* http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html

* http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf

The GNKSOA-MUA comes to mind, too. The other vulnerabilities (there being five -- see the mailing list message) are related to the idea of allowing input data files to contain embedded actions and commands to be executed by the data processing tool. In the world of mail there were many variations on this theme. Clifton T. Sharp Jr's Usenet signature was "Here, Outlook Express, run this program." "Okay, stranger.".

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Propos...
> Remarks like this are really counterproductive and frankly bizarre.

I think that's both untrue and unfair. Typical tort reform discussion focus on how doctors can have their lives ruined without ever mentioning how patients can have their lives ruined. You cannot make a fair cost benefit comparison without understanding both sides. Most people don't understand both sides.

Judging by your point about unlikable plaintiffs, perhaps you misread me. I'm not trying to argue that anecdotal experiences should replace facts in our cost benefit calculation. What I see in this area, though, is that people intuitively know what it means to lose a business, but have no intuitive grasp of what the consequence of a common medical error is (perhaps because there's no typical medical error).

I'm essentially just saying that "People should know more about the details of this issue, they commonly misunderstand the harms involved," which is just how careful decisions should work.

> per-capita, Americans file fewer law cases now than in the 1840s.

Exactly so, and another reason the need for tort reform is overstated.

> Gross negligence is literally the problem in the medical industry. The Johns Hopkins study found "medical errors account for more than 9.5% of all fatalities in the US."

Gross negligence is a term of art, it's not literally equivalent to any fatal mistake. Though I was saying, metaphorically, that we should treat it that way in this industry.

I think we actually agree on most of these points... just in the most heated way possible.
Good teachers teach, great teachers inspire.
It is a grey area, all web applications I work on have syncing, caching, local storage and offline support. I can also think of many mobile apps that do not.

To assume otherwise is a bit of a generalization.
> Although this statement may seem to convey some sort of potentially profound meaning, it is merely a collection of buzzwords put together randomly in a sentence that retains syntactic structure.

That also describes accurately the pitch of some startups that I was in contact with recently. Blockchain, big data and cloud and 15 more in various permutations.
"I'm a reasonable and intelligent person. I believe x. If you don't believe x, you're either stupid or unreasonable."
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What title would you use instead?
I too fall victim to 4.

Put these in a nice image macro and I can imagine my facebook friends sharing on them their walls.

10, especially.
Isn't only the decryption keys encrypted to the public keys?
Maybe a "web" designer really needs to know their medium.

A sculptor needs to know about clay and ovens, a clothes designer needs to know how to sew, the strengths and weaknesses of different fabrics and so on (even if Gaultier or Lagerfeld didn't do any sewing and stitching when they made it big, you bet they learned to when they were apprentice designers). Knowing your medium makes you aware of the limitations and possibilities and a better designer.

Why do we insist on coddling designers with tools like Photoshop? What's wrong with making them learn CSS and HTML?
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Seems 2008 didn't happen in your reality. The small people have to suffer because if what the banking industry did. Always been that way. How brainwashed you must be to defend this whole industry which has more blood on its hand than any other. Greed seems to get even the smartest people...

Not to mention how banks now push European Countries to get rid of cash so they can earn more by bank accounts/transfer fees.
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Yep, languages are like religion. But you can't hotdeploy any other language properly.
It's almost like this is working!
Homework can be a good bridge to university studies imo. I would certainly have benefited from learning self-disciplined study earlier on rather than coasting through the Swedish equivalent of high school and then swapping straight into university.

For under 12s or so I dont see a reason for homework. For 12-18 year olds I think gradually moving to a more self-driven study environment would be a good thing given that most people will end up going to university by now where that is the norm.
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It's clearly not a random sample of the population.
Somebody got a little lazy when it came time to smooth the biotech graph, huh?

http://i.imgur.com/3zdXwTN.png
If it's any consolation, all the studies examined in that meta-analysis show improvements in outcomes, they just vary on how much.

When they say "The effect of mandatory checklist implementation is unclear" they really mean that the magnitude of the effect is still unclear.

Also, the metaanalysis describes which studies have gotten the same profound results:

"Only studies including team training or a more comprehensive safety system that includes multiple checklists have shown effectiveness similar to that seen in the WHO study."

Maybe the benefits are overhyped, but there appear to be reductions in mortality during hospital stays, and the studies suggest ways hospitals can improve results (ie, team training and systems with multiple checklists).
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> Do you know of a bank that has robbed from the small
> people? I work in finance

There was that whole subprime crisis thing.

Now you could split hairs here, and say that rather than technically robbing their clients, the banks involved merely cheated them, but as you follow with:

> there's tremendous protection for the small people
> in everything we do

I'm guessing you're not going to do that.

Matt Taibbi sums it up nicely, so rather than paraphrase him, I'll just quote him:

> > about two-thirds of all subprime loans between
> > 2000 and 2007 were made to people who already
> > owned their homes. The targets were often
> > elderly, in particular men and women of color.
> > Visiting loan officers convinced these borrowers
> > to use the homes they'd poured their savings into
> > their whole lives as ATM machines.

> > The pitch was: refinance your home, and get a
> > little extra spending money each month! Lots of
> > people went for it. But there was mischief hidden
> > in the fine print of many of these "refi" deals,
> > which often quickly exploded. Before long, the
> > now-departed agent's promises would evaporate into
> > a toxic quicksand of debt, unforeseen penalties
> > and foreclosure.

As the same article goes to point on, Wells Fargo paid a $175,000,000 settlement for this shit. From the Baltimore Sun[1]:

> > "80-year-old African-American resident of the
> > Baltimore area with a 714 credit score and a
> > rock-solid credit file who received a subprime
> > loan instead of a prime loan, and who was not told
> > that she may have qualified for a prime loan with
> > better terms."
> > "By the time she realized she had an
> > adjustable-rate mortgage, and not the fixed rate
> > she thought, it was too late,"

Does it get worse? Of course it gets worse, we're talking about a bank! Not content with merely going after vulnerable people with predatory lending practices, they made to sure to refer to the POC they lent to as "mud people"[2]

Tell me again about those protections for the small people? They sound great.

[0] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-line-that-may-...

[1] http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-we...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/07baltimore.html
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I've only ever had two kinds of jobs. In the first I was paid hourly and only ever worked the shift agreed upon. In the second I was paid a salary and there was never any agreement about what my normal working hours would be.
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Getting a representative sample in social science is really hard.

"The median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000, based on estimates derived from exit polls and Census Bureau data. That’s lower than the $91,000 median for Kasich voters. But it’s well above the national median household income of about $56,000. It’s also higher than the median income for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters, which is around $61,000 for both"[0]

How many richer people are spending their days on Mechanical Turk? The authors don't seem to have collected any income, educational or other data that might help us ascertain how representative their sample is. Even when completely random 196 people is a fairly small sample in social science although it's much larger than many psychology studies, which seems to be the background of the authors. Other discussion[1] seems to suggest the people using the service are not very representative of the population at large.

[0]http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-...

[1] http://themonkeycage.org/2012/12/how-representative-are-amaz...
These are hard to read, and I'm assuming people often "give up" and assume they're missing something and defer to apparent authority. That said, I could imagine an insufferable bit of waffle preceding some of these sentences that might make them at least coherent in that context, and it perhaps this feeling of reserving judgement that lets these examples slip through people's radar.

It is also worth noting that just because these were generated randomly does not necessarily mean they are nonsense! (Unsound arguments can lead to true conclusions and all that).
I think you're getting angry about something I never said.

I'm well aware that terrible code solves many problems out there. Yes, it's great that people are able to use code to solve problems without being experts. It's also true that their code could be even better if they learned a bit more.

Just because people can do the basic level of something (it's great that they can!) doesn't mean the field is easy or useless. It's especially irksome that the primary reason physicists can hack together dirty scripts easily is thanks to the pioneering work of actual computer scientists.
Nassim N. Taleb touched on this in Black Swan and even more aggressively in Antifragile[1].

[...]

Overtreatment of illness or physical problems, he suggests, can lead to medical error, much the way that American support of dictatorial regimes “for the sake of stability” abroad can lead to “chaos after a revolution.”

[...]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/books/antifragile-by-nassi...
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10 is very Zen.
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You're absolutely right! I can be quite stubborn when I set my mind on things though :)
He said he would go through YC "like a bowling ball through a python" ... sometimes you look at an organization that, overall, you like and appreciate, and yet still think it needs a massive dose of fiber.

I genuinely wanted to see what would happen with a YC/Maciej arrangement, and not just for entertainment purposes. I think they might have been good for eachother.
Well ... go to everydayfeminism/reason/(whatever the favorite watering hole for anarchists is). Extract the most common in group lingo words. Mash them together and check.

The tribal nature of the internet means there is lots of bullshit content generated as in group signaling/pandering (warning, this statement may also be bullshit)
Well, MIT's intro calculus classes are overwhelmingly for people who have studied calculus before. Making it an actual requirement wouldn't change much.
We have also the red queen problem of responding to increased capabilities by adding additional complexities. For example: faster processors and more memory haven't made computing incredibly fast because we add more features or simply more bloat. See also legal contracts, which before the days of word processing, were no more than a couple of pages, and now even simple contracts can be tens of pages and complex agreements can be hundreds of pages long.
I concur with your perspective. If students aren't opening their text-book outside school-hours then that indicates a lack of inspiration being imparted.

I used to sit and read my Ecce Romani! text-books at the weekends because my Latin teacher was such a wonderfully eccentric and inspiring person that I wanted to learn more for myself and to please her. I don't remember her giving us homework other than 'learn the conjugation of this verb'.

I didn't open anything else unless forced to by homework.
Not a terrible idea, but the timeline seems aggressive: "Starting June 1, 2016 all apps submitted to the App Store must support IPv6-only networking"

There are, for example, hosting providers that don't support ipv6. Including big names, like Amazon's EC2. That means either a pretty hasty move, or using some kind of tunnel.

Apple doesn't say when they would switch to "IPv6 only" for runtime, but it seems likely that would come with little lead time as well.
"I can't think of a single reason why Apple would want to delete the files from the user's computer..."

Well, to save precious local storage space of course. Apple's just being helpful here.

But seriously, sounds like a "good idea" gone wrong - "I know! Let's save the user some space by serving all their music from the cloud!" The moment that file deletion came up in the design, the option to opt-in should have been added. Unless someone at Apple did indeed intend lock-in ...
Let me paraphrase it - if there's a dozen of streaming services, and one of them does misbehaves, it gives you a reason to pirate? That's a really poor excuse (or if that's a joke, then it's a poor one too).
My feelings now are that there really shouldn't be any mandatory homework.

- If you do it badly, you may as well not do it. Who else remembers flipping through "The Catcher in the Rye" so fast they don't actually remember any other character than Holden Caulfield?

- It's an easy way for teachers to not teach, yet gives them an alibi. "Look I'm teaching, they have loads of books to read. Can't help it if they don't."

- If you already understand it, you don't benefit from solving more quadratic equations. You benefit from doing whatever the next step is. You just burn time plugging things into (-b +- sqrt (b2-4ac)) / 2a. And you learn the wrong lesson, which is that you have to get it exactly right, rather than why that's the equation in the first place.

- You end up testing which kids have peaceful homes, and parents who care. Some kids just can't do any homework with the home environment they're given. School should be such that it doesn't matter if your parents are drunks or academics.

- Totally fine with doing like in University: here's a mega list of interesting things related to the subject, go and browse around, get a feel for what the landscape is like. Come back more interested.
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> Isn't only the decryption keys encrypted to the public keys?

from the readme, it appears (to me at least), that chunks are encrypted using public-keys. concretely, the following lines :

"Every time rdedup saves a new chunk file, it's data is encrypted using public key so it can only be decrypted using the corresponding secret key. "
You seem to be implying that you think Maciej is a troll. Have you read much of his writing? He is a jester: he tends to couch the things he's serious about in a lot of humor.
I am a little surprised not to get into the top 20 as my submission got more votes and comments (and I thought they were quality ones) than AutoMicroFarm but their product sounds awesome so I wish them the best.

I'm also thankful to YC for doing this and to the people who took the time to read and comment on my business. That extra runway and the YC advice would have been a nice bonus though.
Homework is essential when it is well thought out and helps you understand the material better, like problems that require you to apply multiple concepts in math or science to arrive at a solution. Or language essays that require new constructs or vocabulary, essentially anything that requires you to apply your mind in new ways.

Sometimes rote memory is also required (spellings, formulae, handwriting anyone?)

If anything, the education system in general and homework in particular makes learning very systematic and structured, glossing over broader issues of exploring topics on one's own, seeking out new resources and creating one's own structure and areas of interest. It conceals the deeper questions of education, handing the students only the low-hanging fruits of tests and homeworks.

The education system is so effective, once the pupil is out, learning anything significant becomes a daunting process. The inability to plan and structure one's own learning can lead many to give up early in the process.
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Not saying that this is what you're arguing, but - I wish it wasn't assumed that children are only able to understand simple concepts. Younger kids might find it hard to get through dense prose, buy that doesn't mean that the ideas therein couldn't be understood with appropriate presentation.

If you've a child with a deep interest in an area, you get to the point where you've devoured the children's literature on the subject and are left grasping for new material that will satisfy their thirst for new knowledge in a form they can read themselves.
Funny you should mention that, as I believe it's covered in the author's follow-on research paper "Misperceiving Bullshit as Profoud is Associated with Peer-Reviewers of Politically-Oriented plosOne Articles"