skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming/Medicine is a little different, you get a good deal of exposure as to what the job basically is even before you start your education is.

Other professions not so much. It would be hard to imagine for most people that a good deal of work in law wouldn't even happen in courts. Stuff like documentation and range of other things are hard to see while you are picking the course.
> It was a genuine question

Sorry for the snark then, I've edited my comment.

> that employers will refuse to hire anyone who hasn't attained them

FWIW I think that's different from what you asked -- refusing to hire people without degrees is different from hiring people with degrees, and is also different from hiring people because they have degrees.

It's possible that an employer hires only people with degrees and also doesn't discriminate on the basis of the degree. In fact, I'd say that's more likely than not for most technical positions. The mere fact pf the matter is that most people learn technical skills in tertiary educational programs.

> that simply means that the employers have outsourced a large portion of their on-the-job training to public education

This is unavoidable. Learning to read, write, do basic mat, basic science, etc. are all crucial skills that job readiness programs need to build on top of.

Mind you, there are also a lot of other reasons we as a society might want to subsidize education and even particular types of education. E.g., a lot of people argue that health care costs should be addressed on the supply side as well as the demand side.

> And if the above is true, the signalling theory also holds

You go astray here because you assume that education doesn't actually impart real and useful skills that directly benefit the employer. In most cases, the degree is more than a mere signal.

edit: apologies for typos; commuting.
Here is the text of the Fourth Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

You believe that your property is being searched and/or seized when the government regulates your cottage business?
I don't think the word "deserve" has to factor into it, but there's an ROI function not only for your major, but for the college you choose to pursue that major at.
Forty three years after Stairway and they can still sue over it? I am so glad that LZ won but still this is just annoying. I can see a suit over copyright infringement being filed if someone copied the Taurus rift today and made real money, but to be able to sue over events forty plus years ago? Simply because the target has money?
Great job on hitting 1.0. Teleport looks amazing! I'm especially interested in the centralized key management, two-factor auth, and session recording and replay.
I can't find pricing on your website. There's a page called 'pricing' that says I can find pricing on the home page. When I click the link, I find a lot of marketing text, but no pricing.
A Building Boom in Boston?
Given that basically everyone should be blocking ads (if for no reason other than that they are a vector for malware), native ad blocking is really an energy saving mode, a user experience improvement, and a crucial security measure all rolled up into one feature.

If the focus of this test is meant to be on the user experience, as the tone of the Microsoft blog post seems to suggest, then said native ad blocker is a killer feature that really might mean Opera users can "stay productive longer".

If not, then sure, Edge's underlying implementation is probably faster. It would be interesting to see a comparable benchmark of Edge with the best available ad blocking turned on.
I love the fast movement and large enemy hordes in open-but-not-too-open-spaces mechanics of the new Doom.

I absolutely hate the platformer aspect. Seriously, guys, just because you have taught Doomguy to jump, doesn't mean that I want to have a series of random platforms that have to be jumped on in precise sequence to get anywhere.

At first I thought it's just a gimmick that they were showcasing in one map, and it'd even out... instead, I found that I'm spending more and more time doing this, and it's getting harder and harder, with the addition of moving platforms etc. The first Hell map was the last straw.

If I wanted to play Super Mario, I'd buy that, not something called "Doom".
Wow I thought I was the only one who does this. I find Alan Watts lectures to be a pretty good fit.
Well he did apparently feel they'd ripped him off, although he didn't take legal action over it.
I think you are unaware how marketing works (the whole power saving competition from both Microsoft and Opera is just marketing).

Essentially they did some power saving improvements and want to create a bit of noise about it to increase their popularity.

It's kind of same as how Apple, Google etc announce new features/products before you even can use them.
> MSYS is a kind of "non-user-serviceable area" that you wouldn't deal with unless you were hacking on MinGW itself

If so, why did they actually create MSYS(2)? Why not just compile MinGW executables using gcc under Cygwin?
I suspect the problem is not entirely with the reporter. The reporter is probably paraphrasing a press release describing a really minimal effort to apply Watson to a something that would grab some publicity. IBM and the Raptors' PR people probably put in more work than was done on the implementation. Which is why it sounds like something you could whip up in a spreadsheet. It probably does "display a comparison of their stats on shooting, assists, and rebounds" on a Web page with the Watson logo on it, and the reporter faithfully reported what he saw.

Watson is more of IBM's tool for creating the impression that IBM is a technology company and not just a systems integration shop than it is a serious deep learning project. Eventually it will become another tragic chapter among many in the decline of technology at IBM.

I predict sometime in the near future, when Apple and Google and Microsoft and others build some real businesses on deep learning systems that there will be a mournful article published about how sad and left behind Watson has become.
I think that there is an unwritten rule that people in their 20s and 30s know, that 5 star review is the default unless it was absolute shit. Something which 'olds' don't really get. Which is fair really, because they have the graded option, its just us that perceive it differently.
Maybe AirBnB would benefit from a binary system plus comments?
Awesome idea, couple years ago I dropped the few certs I had with Comodo after all their malpractices.

This should be included as a warning for every website that has their cert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#Controversies
Microsoft's pricey Surface Book is getting stomped by the ancient Surface Pro 3
That's not what I remember hearing on...NPR I think it was? He just thought there was no way he could ever go up against a massive band like Led Zeppelin and win. As far as I remember from the segment, he died wishing they had at least given him credit for the riff.
Why did you have to turn this into a sexist argument? OP was clearly just joking around and not trying to suppress non men
Being open source is killing Android
Yep, realized that after a bit. My school was pretty relaxed and had ~600 students per grade so not too bad. Another one in the same district had large Asian and Hindu populations (maybe because it was close to NASA) and I remember hearing how competitive it got. Same with Houston schools like Bellaire.
Comodo's CEO has responded on their forums: https://forums.comodo.com/general-discussion-off-topic-anyth...
It's because the guy died, the people managing the estate are the ones going after LZ now.
I'm a big fan of Aphex Twin, but I've never been able to listen his Selected Ambient Works II without falling to sleep. It's amazingly beautiful music, but I always just fall asleep and don't remember what kind of music the album has after the fourth track. Maybe this was Richard's original idea...
It is a battery factory. They will definitely have some on-site storage mechanism. :)
People should have asked if they plan on relocating to another country within the week?
It was "Doom clones":

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/File:Doom_clone_vs_first_person_s...

And real-time strategies were "C&C clones".
This is a fundamental aspect of introductory economics.

In fact, many professors use Facebook as an example of monopolies due to the network effect.
Coming from the embedded world, I have always concern about CPU loading which translates to how much power you are sucking.

I can't not understand why minimal CPU load is not on top of design requirement of many software products, totally ignored if on a desktop system.
Is it common to skip nginx or insert-your-reverse-proxy-of-choice-here?

I'm working on a Phoenix app, getting close to being ready for a beta deployment, and I was just looking for best practices as far as putting it in production.
probably depends what you're doing, right? e.g., if i'm just sitting here reading hacker news i can't tell the difference between 60 fps or 30 fps repainting, right?
Yup, it's a bit like trying to build a static HTML page with the full AWS stack.

There's this incredibly high cost curve for assets. Back about 6 years ago the dev:art ratio was about 1:10 and I'm going to guess it's even higher these days.

That's partially also why you see pixel art style thrive in the indie game space. It's the right combination of low production overhead that can still convey a large amount of information/style.
Glad I'm not the only one that thought that. This sounds to me like comparing kitchen cabinets based on "which one might work best when your house is on fire".
The "native" English speakers are actually some of the worst offenders.

I want to strangle "reporters" who write articles for the NYT, Washington Post, etc. who get this wrong all the time.
Why does it work in the UK and not France?
According to Wikipedia the song's past royalties are estimated at over $550 million in total, but the lawsuit was for a share of future profits.
That's all well and good, but where can I get the code?
Where can I play with this?

How can Apple be shipping it (?) when LLVM is an open source project and it's not in the SVN head yet?

Is there a special branch you need to use?
A different repository perhaps?
And now one wonders who gets to sue the lawyers for bringing this stupid lawsuit in the first place. Pretty much every IP lawyer I've talked to thought the case had no merit, so at the end of the day the estate is that much poorer after paying this legal firm to pursue a case that was (in the folks I've polled) unwinnable. Seems like a case of the law firm trying to get more money out of the estate and denying it to the heirs.
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"a college education is being priced out of the reach of middle-class and even upper-middle-class families."

If this were true, we would see one of two things: (1) colleges would be empty and closing their doors, or (2) we'd have an enormous debt bubble.

(1) is obviously false.

(2) is more interesting and, indeed, debt levels may be high. However, in a development that most pieces like this ignore, the federal government now has significant loan repayment forgiveness programs, along with income-sensitive repayment plans.

So no, with huge programs that will wipe student debt clean, I laugh in the face of a headline that asserts that college is "unaffordable even in higher income brackets."

Look here:

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...

"Most federal student loans are eligible for at least one income-driven repayment plan. If your income is low enough, your payment could be as low as $0 per month."

So $0 a month is unaffordable??
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This just isn't true. Compared to most of the U.S. I make a lot of money (Software Engineer in Silicon Valley). I have kids a few years from college, so this topic weighs on me. I ran my financials through Stanford's cost calculator (Stanford is among the most expensive schools), and my expected contribution would be under $10K / year. Yes, it costs $65K+ / year for tuition, housing, etc., but the reality is that those costs are not nearly as terrifying when you factor in financial aid programs that are available.

I remember how terrified I was of my student loans in my day. I also remember how awesome it felt when they got paid off. This has turned into a political topic and whenever that happens logic and facts go out the window in favor of emotion triggering pseudo-statistics.
Ok, how about a straight undergrad budget at a public university.

https://www.admission.ucla.edu/prospect/budget.htm

Depending on circumstances $25k to $52k for next year with a 10% increase over the next three to four years...

http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-table...
Why 'unfortunate'? What is 'unfortunate' is developers having prejudice against any OS / IDE / language / etc; it restricts your creation of solutions for the problems that need to be solved. Keeping up with developments across all platforms - like the fact these days you can use C# for non-Windows targets- helps us be well-rounded and capable developers.
That's really weird perspective. Because the moment you are making a listing in the marketplace (Airbnb in this case). You are selling a good or service. And denying that good or service based on someone's race is definitely unlawful as it should be.
Related:

"The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See"

(it's an old youtube obviously click-bait-style title, but it's a video of a lecture worth watching, see the description):

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25458.htm
That talk was super interesting. Thanks!

https://haslab.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/version-vectors-are-... - are you sure what you described is a version clock, and not a version vector? I'll readily admit to not having a thorough enough grasp of both to feel confident in making that call.
Speeding up Media Consumption
Tor devs wrote a short Q&A about this project: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/selfrando-q-and-georg-koppe...
How does this compare with approaches used by other governments to limit freedom?
Assuming that 囍事 in that passage refers to "a wedding", first I'd admit that that passes pretty much any test of "linguistic use in running text".

Having said that, I note that 喜事 appears in my dictionaries with the gloss "wedding" (well, "any occasion meriting joy, particularly a wedding"), 囍事 does not, and since 囍 is a symbol of weddings which is generally assumed by the Chinese to have the same pronunciation as 喜 it makes for very natural wordplay to substitute it into the word for wedding. I would draw a pretty close analogy with the $ of "Micro$oft" -- it's use in running text, but it shouldn't be taken as evidence that $ is a letter in English.
I've been thinking that it might be nice to use chaining (though I didn't know it had a name) in ordinary mathematical notation too, writing "x f g" instead of "g(f(x))".
Ding, ding, ding and to be fair this is the problem in both methodologies. The only way to accurately perform this test is to spider a bunch of sites, save the contents to a locally hosted HTTPD and ensure all third-party JS calls are resolved locally and test both against the exact same sites as they were spidered at a point in time. You can simply not account for changes which may happen to the markup, ad network beacons, ads, metrics code, or even network routing, all of which could influence the test in one way or the other if not run from an identical static cache in a controlled environment. If I were doing this test I'd then skip the whole scripting automation part and simply add a meta-refresh to every page in the cache to sequentially take the browser through the content, giving each page something like 10 seconds to load and render. Simple, simple, and far more accurate.
Python lambda is somewhat limited, compared to lambda in some other languages. Guido isn't overly fond of lambda or other functional building blocks (and even planned to remove it from Python, before there was a sufficient outpouring of support for keeping it). http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196

As I understand it, the primary limitation is that Python lambda only works with a single expression (I think it also has some weirdness regarding scope when calling functions?). I haven't poked seriously at Python since around about the time they were talking about removing it, so I probably have no idea what I'm talking about.

The idea is that generators and list comprehensions do the things most people do with lambdas in a more Pythonic way.
Where do you see these spreadsheets?
Falling from a tree is a type of gravitational teleporting.
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Thanks for the link, powerful footage.
Hi,

As I comment on the original post you may want to give www.paymoapp.com a try, since there is no standard workflow it can help you with project management, time tracking and reporting.

Please let me know what you think
This is a leading article of the Economist's special issue on AI.

Their take on the impact of AI on job markets is that welfare systems will have to be updated, but people should also adjust. They can take on new roles in society through lifelong learning and use of online learning, perhaps with the help of AI itself and video-game-style simulations. Character and social skills may become more important as these are unlikely to be fully substituted by machines in the foreseeable future.

I agree with most of it apart from their dismissive argument against the danger of AI as a very long term problem. Rapid progress in AI has just been demonstrated by deep learning's human-level performance in several tasks, emerged over the span of a few years. There is no guarantee that the upcoming advances will not catch us off-guard.
Most people's headphones aren't nearly that good, not should they be turned up that loud.
Lately, I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks, mainly at bedtime. I've found that using a 30 minute sleep timer is ideal to fall asleep. It doesn't require that the audiobook be boring. The advantage of this is that I'm not wasting the time listening to waves, white noise, a droning voice or whatever. I'm catching up on works of fiction that I don't have time to read otherwise, but wish I did.

The only downside is that out of those 30 minutes, I might remember 30, 10, or nothing. It all depends. So I spend a lot of time seeking backwards trying to figure out if I remember hearing that bit, made more difficult by trying to avoid accidental spoilers.
If you think stuff like this is cool, and you'd like to be a part of the software engineering effort at Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, msg me. ccary@parkerici.org

We are building out our platform for bioinformatics. Some engineering topics:

* Large scale data processing (Cloud & on-prem HPC based)

* Bioinformatics / ML algorithms

* Data storage & retrieval (File systems & databases)
You probably mean statically typed.
Python 101: An Intro to ftplib
In a Deadly Crash, Who Should a Driverless Car Kill – Or Save?
Amazon already showed its hand at maliciousness when it blackballed all chromecasts from stores, including 3rd party sellers. I don't put suddenly blackballing netflix beyond amazon's consideration. Amazon is cutthroat with public customers, corporate customers, and with its own employees. I think netflix is stupid to put more eggs in the vulture's nest.

In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that at the first opportunity where the lawyers agree it is a usable hole, they'll try to kill netflix through denying it service. Taking out netflix for a week or two while the engineers rebuild the backends with a different provider would be excellent for amazon's video division.
From the post:

> One a separate note, since we are talking about protecting intellectual property, there is no law protecting business models. When Lets Encrypt copied Comodo's 90 day free ssl business model, we could not protect it. Lets encrypt could have chosen 57 days, 30 days or any other number for the lifetime of their certificates. But they chose to use Comodo's 90 day Free SSL model that we established in the market place for over 9 years!!! We invented the 90 day free ssl. Why are they copying our business model of 90 day free ssl is the question! Comodo has provided and built a Free SSL model that give SSL for free for 90 days since 2007! Trying to piggy back on our business model and copying our model of giving certificates for 90 days for free is not ethical. They clearly wanted to leverage the market of Free SSL users we had helped create and establish and that's why they created exactly same 90 day free ssl offering. So why did they choose 90 day? That is the question!

I'm not sure if he's delusional, or if he honestly thinks this is a "business model". Following that logic, all CAs are copying each other's business model when they offer one-year certificates. I don't have words for this.
> For example, if the Raptors were measuring college basketball prospects, Watson could quickly crunch the numbers and display a comparison of their stats on shooting, assists, and rebounds. Compare that to drafts of past years, in which the Raptors would use whiteboards with player stats printed on magnets, and call up statisticians each time they wanted new information, recalled Lenchner, who visited the Raptors’ headquarters while IBM was developing the software. In the days before Watson, the whole process was much more laborious and time consuming.

I like Watson and it's not their fault for getting publicity...but as for the reporter, c'mon, there's no way you could write that above paragraph without being ignorant of computers pre-Macintosh (or iPod) days. Perhaps the Raptors are old-fashioned but computers have been used for exponentially reducing laborious and time-consuming activities since the dawn of the airlines for solving scheduling problems. And that was much later than the era of computing used for early censuses and cryptoanalysis during the World Wars. But if you've grown up in the "there's an app for that!" age, I guess it's easy to forget how infinite the use cases for computers.
Looks interesting. How do you tell map what function to use?
Most of these findings would have been discovered during an in depth pentest.

While I applaud Uber (or any company) for having a bug bounty program, it does not replace mandatory application pentests for new features and major modifications. Each bug bounty paid out should result in a meeting to discover not only how the vulnerability was introduced, but how it was missed in QA and SQA.
You can sue over basically anything published since 1923, unless it's been deliberately placed in the public domain.

Edit: Actually scratch that "deliberately", for a 1923 work I think you'd have to have added a copyright notice and subsequently renewed the copyright to keep it out of the public domain.
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I cannot sleep without audiobooks any more. This has been a fact of life for me for 22 years.

My technique is simple. I listen only to things I have already listened to in a fully waking context. No surprises, no excitement.

Spoken word only. Nothing with music or sound effects.

I hope to take a year off sometime and kick this habit.
Blackbird, a car rig that creates photo-real CG cars [video]
Comodo CEO Forum Post on Lets Encrypt Trademark