skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a chilling effect because the current view in the US is that something as seemingly innocuous as peaceably assembling (virtually in this case) and exercising your right to free speech would possibly result in more data being added to "your permanent record" which, it is believed, has the potential to be used against you in unpredictable ways.

To be more specific, this (let's say) metaphorical file could have entries in it as a result of you signing a petition to pardon Snowden. While such entries could be myriad and varied in detail, I'll pick two hypothetical variations.

1) "Subject exercised right to free speech online."

2) At 1820Z, Subject did willfully and intentionally announce their position against the protection of national security, the lives of US Armed Forces soldiers, the lives of US Intelligence operatives, and the lawmaking authority of the legislative branch of the US Government by supporting an individual charged with espionage. Furthermore, by doing so, Subject did willfully and intentionally foment rebellion within the US general population by the "social proof" of his anti-authoritarian position.

Not knowing if, or which, entry might be made by the mass surveillance of even public forums, where there is no expectation of privacy, is the concern. Not that the speech is public, but that the speech isn't expected to be used in unknowable ways against the speaker.
> None of these great minds existed in an apolitical, unbiased vacuum, where they could devote themselves to nothing but free thought.

If that is the claim, then I agree that it is wrong. The most common criticism of Marx that I have heard is not that he is political, but that he is wrong (and perhaps incoherent). Similarly, I think that any curriculum that wants to replace the highly influential writings of Plato with another philosopher should make a case for why we should do this... an argument beyond the "inclusion" of additional points of view. I can sit at my desk and come up with a dozen different points of view. I don't think that each of those should be included in a philosophy class, in place of Plato.
No kidding! I feel like my wife & I get somewhere between 1-2hr/day of discretionary time, and it's not in large blocks most days... and it includes things like calling the utility provider to figure out a billing problem, vacation & event planning, chatting with neighbors/friends, and anything else that isn't a natural part of the "committed parent + homeowner" categories.
it was implied that that was the insurance co-pay. her own out of pocket expense was only $100, but the overall cost of the medication was still $3000, thus $100/dose x 30 days per month = $3000/mo.
> I don't see why information trade-offs are somehow different.

Because it is about power. We, as humanity, have plenty of experience with power trade-offs. We have so much experience with it that we have names for structures with centralized power, like "monarchy" and "dictatorship". Our experience with those trade-offs hasn't been particularly good. Maybe we should learn something from that.
Google Play Music has the most frustrating UI as well. It takes 4 taps to start playing the playlist I want to every time (most recently added).
Nice angle. Yes - motivations, consequences and the apparent and underlying connections between them often confound. Especially if you take things at face value!
Even if we're talking private companies, many hiring managers prefer to not hire someone who'd be underpaid -- increased turnover is one issue, and there are others.
if you succeed, great. if you raise, fail, and decide that it isn't the life for you - you aren't left with a lot of options.
It's the economic freedom index, not personal liberties index.
That "grit" is entirely within an academic context and does not necessarily translate outside of that context. It's also debatable whether a PhD absolutely implies an above average IQ (or even whether that is a meaningful trait).

As for correlation with success, I wonder if you could elaborate? What measures "success"? What studies are you referring to? What confounding issues (if any) are accounted for?
Neural Network Zoo
Tracking the progress of your work with GitHub Projects
As another not a Ph.D. i'm not convinced from what I know about Ph.D's that a higher than average IQ is actually required.

However, I do agree that "grit"/"will-power" is definitely required.
This comment still makes me chuckle and its pretty much true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=287767

So, you're gonna code the whole thing, do the servers and work for sweat equity...

anamax 8 years ago comments

If they don't have the money to pay you, you're not an employee, you're a founder and you get the same deal that they get.

If they balk, suggest that they find another code monkey while you find another biz monkey and let the market decide who ends up with the bananas.
The GIF shows "Start Review" button and "Finish your review" buttons (and a "Pending" flag), which makes me think this is more geared to the complaints that every comment sent an individual email instead of being batched when the reviewer was ready to send them out.

Edit: Indeed, from the github blog post - "You can also leave a review summary and delete, edit, or bundle comments before you submit them."
The calculator won't let you enter an Estimated Ending Price lower than the Current Home Price.
my thoughts exactly. Reading this made me thing of the song "is that all there is".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAf7HcK10d0

I don't want to do more, I want to do less. Not more with less either, just less. ps Dominos is soul destroying!
Curious where you grew up, because I've noticed lately (since we stopped wearing shoes in the house), that almost all our visitors -- no matter what their ethnicity or place of origin -- tend to either volunteer to remove theirs or tell us they also don't wear shoes indoors.
"There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and in this case Point’s lunch comes in the form of capital appreciation..."

I am fascinated by the rhetorical device being deployed here. In the beginning of the sentence, the "lunch" is the money that you save through lower mortgage payments. By the end, the "lunch" is Point's profits, and the tidy transition suggests that everyone wins.
'Edward Snowden did this country a great service. Let him come home'
The paper even admits that it probably exaggerates the effects of grants and loans since their model doesn't incorporate private and public schools with different funding characteristics or competition[1].

[1]: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13711.pdf
This is odd. I was checking socketcluster.io a few hours ago for a side project I'm planning on building. Now I see your comment and Googled you ("because you said 'my first startup', no stalker) and found out you're the main contributor of it. Crazy.
1st party link: https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-ann...
In pinboard.in[0] you can search for via:hn

(Happy user, otherwise unaffiliated.)

[0]:by our (more or less : ) own idlewords
The telling stuff always happens on the margin ;)
Why is that? Censorship is there for a reason, usually because a government wants to protect itself. (When something illegal is removed, it's not censorship.) But unless people who advocate against it accomplish to create consistent arguments, they won't be very successful.
GitHub GraphQL API Explorer
Can I upvote you 100 times? 100 wouldn't be enough, actually. This should be the top response.
I don't think you can simply apply technology to solve something that isn't a technical problem.
> his incessant rambling about Wikipedia. Shocked to see he's found a new corp to hate.

Wikipedia is not a corporation.
there are rumors about spoken push notifications http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/8/12848586/ama...
Any organization relying on a 0.5% return on investment is going to go bankrupt due to inflation, taxes, and expenses. Hoarding money is not a viable business plan.
ACLU blog links to it: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/obama-should-pardon-e...

Also, the FAQ page https://www.pardonsnowden.org/faq mentions, "We've partnered with the nonprofit Center For International Policy (CIP) so that we can offer tax deductibility to donors. Your donation goes to the CIP, they enable tax deductibility, and it is then transferred to us to be used for the campaign."
The alternative to getting on the tenure track is usually getting a commercial role, probably a relatively well paid one. There is literally no worse reason to start a startup than "trying to get tenure is getting more difficult". Because if your end goal is to study phenomenon that particularly fascinate you at your own pace in a collegiate environment, then starting a startup is a big step in the opposite direction. And if it's the difficulty or possibility of failure that's putting you off pursuing a career in academia...

Sure, many PhDs are eminently capable of starting a startup and some will be wildly successful. But that's more likely to be because they have a burning desire to commercialise their research or a great founding team sees their skillset as the missing link than because they couldn't find an alternative
Dear lord, I've started writing all of my mathematics homework in LaTeX, it's not even remotely reasonable.

Though interestingly, having to be more deliberate in my operations do make me have a much more rigorous understanding of what I'm doing.
So, is it better than the Chrome built-in debugger? :D
Which is hopefully motivation to move away from old models of academia, although I really don't think that's feasible in the near future. Elite schools are just as much about pre-selecting smart people for others' benefit as they are about teaching, and this effect stacks: you can get a great job largely because of a prestigious graduate degree, which was easier to get because of your prestigious undergraduate degree, which you got by being an overachiever in high school... until the person you were at 17, despite the clear differences with who you are today, becomes awfully important.
An example from the set of making the world better would be Bill Gates' foundation which is helping eradicate polio [0]. If that is not a good thing I give up.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20080414095646/http://www.polioe...
> My idea of 'hard work' has changed a lot since then.

This. I was just considering this last night, since I was back on my university campus again. While I subconsciously knew the work I was doing in school wasn't real, I still attributed value to it. Looking back, while it had value, it was fundamentally different value than real work. Its value was most temporal, i.e., if I got it done on time, it was valuable. This has little to no direction correlation to real life.

Hard work is valuable when applied to intrinsically valuable work, which will be valuable if you finish it today or tomorrow. And in general, a missed deadline is bad, but doesn't reflect on the intrinsic value of the work (there are exceptions, of course).

Hard work is worthless when applied to intrinsically worthless work, regardless of when or how it is completed.
If you've not written a PhD thesis, you're not in a position to discount the work involved. Mine was a hundred pages, and I had about two weeks to write it from scratch. I'm not saying it was hard work, but it's not easy either.
Writing the 100 page thesis is not the hard work part of a PhD. Doing the research to have the results to write that thesis is the hard work. Unless you are uncommonly lucky, you will fail at some avenues of research and have to slog through lots of painstaking work. I don't (yet) know how that compares to the challenges of a startup, but a PhD is an entirely different animal than an undergrad degree (for better or worse)
Don't you guys think using rockets is a little intense? I think incubators are more gentle.
That's certainly not William Binney's view, but then, as a leaker himself, I suppose he's no longer part of the "intelligence community" as he reached similar conclusions as Snowden did.
Medical tourism, bankruptcy or dying.
Missed opportunity to call the platform forum the "GitHub PlatForum."
Batch review has been my #1 most desired feature for Github for many years now. This is great!
Have you got any credit cards? Get one. Before trying the crappy "secured" cards, try a Discover, they seem lenient if you don't have cards yet. Stuff it in a drawer, add something small to it, such as Netflix, setup autopay, forget about it.

Your credit score will slowly increase. And at no cost to you (other than the time to setup this, which can be minimal if you can get approvals online).

You can (and should) live within your means and that's fine. What creditors want to see is that you have access to credit and you use it responsibly (eg, paying on time). You don't actually need to use any of your available credit.
This works because in general, most bullies are giant pussies. When they find out their target won't just accept their mis-guided aggressions but fight back, they just find a new target that won't.
I'll be curious to see if they've made API granularity more sane.

We haven't been able to use any third party tools because our security people don't feel great about giving third parties write access to everything (including our source) for tools that don't need it. In the past, GitHub hasn't differentiated write access to issues (which many tools need) and write access to the source itself (which basically nothing should need).
Seems like there are two smaller galaxies in the bottom right. Does anybody know what those are?
Can we get this updated to this? defunkt didn't post this blog post before TechCrunch talked about it. I'd much rather had linked to it.
Have you considered that state funding has been lowered due to the fact that federal loans to students have increased?

We aren't frivolously spending money. We raise tuition because the bills have to be paid.

The ballooning of the 'administration' staff at my wife's university over the last 20 or so years is the same type of staff explosion seen at larger public companies. Except that those companies are responsible to share holders, and thus constrict when profits cannot be maintained. Whereas the University can forgo layoffs by increasing tuition, and know that the federal (and private) loan system will fill the gap. I cannot remember there ever being even a 2% layoff of staff at the university, let alone something you'd see from MS/IBM/etc.
Impressive. I have to think that this is all competition fostered by Gitlab - all those features were present in Gitlab. Competition at work :)
I sent this to support, but the "Files changed" tab in Pull Requests now has an announcement "We've made some change to reviewing code"

The "Learn more" button on that banner is a broken link…

(It's a good thing this HN post later directed me to the blog post, as now I've learned from that.)
Not to the same extent, it seems - although probably that's because people have been drilled into neutering their pets for decades. Some places do have feral dog problems. The Scottish Wildcat is also threatened by interbreeding with domestic cats - an unusual form of extinction where it simply becomes indistinguishable as a species.
Brakeman is really high quality. If you are doing anything appsec related with ruby or are not an appsec person with a ruby codebase, brakeman is very helpful.
Unregulated markets never stay unregulated for long. It's an unstable system. The biggest players in the market have incentives to create regulatory capture mechanism through influence on policymakers.
> Why are so many hackers unwilling to learn the basics of civics?

ahem

The two probably-most-famous pardons in American history - Ford's pardon of Nixon and Carter's pardon of draft dodgers - affected unindicted individuals (Carter's included people who had been convicted, but also included plenty of individuals where no action had been taken). And those are not the only two examples.

It is legally possible for President Obama to pardon Snowden. You are simply factually incorrect as it comes to American governance.

Many of us did pay attention in school (and many of us researched carefully afterwards).
In 1999 I had an old (at the time) Pentium-133 that wouldn't let me reinstall windows when the network card was plugged in. If I did that the mouse, the graphics card, the network card, and the secondary harddrive wouldn't work.

If i unplugged the networking card when i installed there were no issues.
The title doesn't match the body: "A FlexJobs survey of 3,100 professionals found that only seven percent reported they were most productive when working in the office."
That's something the community will simply have to deal with. Transpiling already creates issues when you're debugging code since what you debug is different than what you wrote. Honestly this is one of the biggest issues I have with transpiling everything; you don't have to transpile even though our industry seems to be standardizing on it.
I attended both state school and community college. The federal money available to me while attending both places was considerably different, e.g. while I was at state school easily double the money was available.
I grant that "coolness" is tricky to define, but (if you're not restricting the domain of discourse to a particular group or subculture), I think it has to include either popularity or "outsider-ness". i.e., you can be cool either by being popular or by being controversial enough to get everyone talking about you, even in a negative way.

I don't think South Park meets either of these criteria anymore. It's not a pop culture locus like it used to be, and even their controversial episodes are ignored. Part of this isn't their fault- it's probably the continued fractalization of culture where we have ever-fewer shared experiences- but I also think it's hard to keep anything fresh for 20 years, especially something trying to be "edgy".

Note that that doesn't make it "bad", and it doesn't mean you can't still like it. But I think "coolness" can only be defined in terms of broad opinion.
> Writing a 100 page thesis is not hard work either.

Maybe don't belittle things you've never done?

Doing a PhD is not just sitting down and writing a thesis, and it's also not just taking a few classes that occasionally require late nights. A PhD student is typically teaching one or more classes, learning as much as possible about his/her field, reading papers at the forefront of research in his/her field, conducting original research, writing papers on one's research, preparing and giving talks at conferences and seminars, along with writing the thesis and (at least in the first year or two) taking classes.

My thesis was in fact just over 100 pages. It also required a lot intense studying (on top of my basic undergrad and graduate education) before I understood the topic well enough to begin to do research on the topic, and quite a lot more work before I started to find worthwhile original results to write about. Here "a lot of work" doesn't mean a few late nights, it means years of working as much time as possible every week.

As someone who was in the working world for almost 10 years before returning to school, I assure you my thesis represents a lot more hard work than anything I ever did in "the real world."

All that said, this article is nuts. Very few PhDs are in a good position to launch a startup. But not because PhDs "know nothing about life or work," and not because they are unfamiliar with hard work.
Do you use some tools to help you remember or you've a memory of an elephant :) Also, how do you choose between text or email?
That's really awesome. I really like Elm. (I use Angular 1.5 and CoffeeScript all day.) One of the things that's kept me from really trying to use it though was the breaking changes 0.17 upgrade. It made me feel like it's not production ready yet. So I kinda put it on the side burner.

I would really like to know what a 1.0 Elm looks like.

sidenote - I love that you guys are using Elm-Phoenix-GraphQL.
Tuition is rising at San Jose State to: get us "great partnership deals" on new equipment like expensive teleconference TVs or smartboards that are rarely used.

I have had CS professors who struggle to get their computers on the projector because of old worn-out bulbs while math professors get rooms with smartboards they don't even use, and similar.

Tuition rises because of bogus costs and needs that aren't needs at all or because of overspending on poorly used/misused equipment that is sorely mismanaged.

I could ramble on and on about problems I've seen first-hand, but rising tuition is a serious issue not only because of costs being higher but also because schools are just plain casually misusing/abusing the money in the first place, some even carelessly.
Show HN: Who runs this – A Chrome extension that shows who runs a site
If we end up with a bubble in this case, it will be due to the nature of hard science contrasted against the prevailing Theranosian assumption that R&D can be brute forced by entrepreneurs.
I'm sure it's different in different markets, different countries, etc.

That said, I know several people who own multiple homes and lease them out. They often barely break even with mortgage payments, maintenance, dealing with deadbeat tenants, etc. Sure, once a house is paid off, they have a nice source of income, but they're taking a decent amount of risk having so much of their money tied up in such a limited number of investments. Some of them are still under water on rental property mortgages after the 2008 crash.

They're not skimming labour off of their tenants. They're providing a service for a fee.

And if you're talking about large apartment complexes, that's not some landlord "rentier" class. That's a corporation, just like any other.

You don't have to pay to exist; just ask any homeless person. If you want to live in a home or any type of shelter, you have to make it yourself or obtain access to one that has been built. It has always been so. There are various ways to obtain access: squat, pay rent, perform services in exchange, couchsurf, join a commune, convince friends or family to accept you, buy, etc.
I would argue that the point of Lord of the Flies is that savagery is how people naturally act when taken outside society.

The fact that it's natural means nothing. It's natural for small groups of humans to make war on their neighbors, to kill their men, rape their women, and enslave their children. But we don't put up with that kind of thing now, for the most part.

I agree with your last sentence, but my question is: why aren't they working hard to prevent it? Of course children have to learn this stuff, it's clearly not innate, but if they're going through their school years being bullied then clearly they're not learning the lesson.
Slack introduces a new way to catch up your messages
It's amazing that it is still watchable after twenty years, and how very few real stinker episodes it has produced.

It's also turning into a pretty good IP to mine. I'm really looking forward to the sequel to The Stick of Truth this Christmas.
GraphQL increases speed: "Using GraphQL on the frontend and backend eliminates the gap between what we release and what you can consume"
I fail to see what bearing paragraphs 3-6 have on the possibility or probability of AGI.

AGI beliefs don't compare to religious beliefs just because you say so. You simply don't have the same knowledge background as people who think AGI is realistic or even likely. Maybe you have more or better knowledge, or maybe they do... but just saying they're wrong is pointless.

The boundary for systems-level consideration of intelligence is often placed around the brain because that's most convenient, not because nothing interesting happens at larger (sociology, ecology) or smaller (Drosophila, Portia) scales.