skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My kid loves the Imperial March too for some reason. I thought I was a bad parent. Strange we came to the same conclusion. There must be something to this. /s (n=2)
Thanks for sharing! I recall reading his Surface reviews previously. I appreciate his honesty, and Microsoft's willingness to tap into him for advice on their products.
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No no, the reason why you aren't getting hits on online dating is because your profile writeup isn't interesting, it has nothing to do with the fact that you aren't physically attractive!
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I'm curious why this field hasn't been "privatized" to some degree. Why doesn't division of labor apply? Why not have scientists go off and do their research and rely on a team that is skilled at hoarding grants or publishing works from raw data? I imagine it's probably due to some institutional barriers (e.g. you can't get funding outside of a university context).

I imagine the reason is as always - our leaders are two-faced in their support of science. They claim that it's a national issue but fail to make professorship even remotely competitive in the hard sciences. This kind of thing raises the most righteous indignation in me. We have a nation of know-nothing politicians claiming "We need more kids in STEM!" without doing anything to address the quagmire academia has become, largely because of over-competition for resources.

For all of this myopia around STEM it's largely a misnomer. No one in industry cares about climate science, geology, theoretical physics, abstract algebra, topology, combinatorics or number theory - at least not in the dollars and cents view. They may care insofar as there's a cash benefit, but not to the degree that they care about building better oil pipelines, faster algorithms and more efficient fabrics. So what we end up with is a world where Nike, Facebook and Exxon Mobil attract the best talent - a world where PhD's are basically forced to quit their jobs in order to go make money for the bourgeois.
So, politicians have trouble influencing people through social media, search engines and decided to openly demand influence there. It's good, it means they were not able to persuade them privately.
I agree with what you're saying here, but the argument isn't about the the value of ideas with regards to our species's success, but rather about the value of ideas with regards to a given businesses's success.
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This was 6 months ago and she hasn't spoken to me since.

So she's even more quiet than requested. Sounds like a win. :-)
* Actian Vectorwise, for example, who has a huge library of amazing papers*

Any chance you could sure a link? I couldn't find this on Google. Thanks!
Yes and no. In some fields, such as mathematics (applied & pure), one can squeak by without a grant, and many do. This has to do with the funding model in different fields -- math departments tend to have enough TA positions to support all their grad students, which lightens the pressure to secure funding. Of course the trade-off is time spent teaching lower-division courses vs actually doing research.

As for tenure, it qualifies one for all kinds of service. So job security is nice, no questions about it, but one has even less time for serious work (unless you are willing to say no to requests to serve -- and some of these committees do matter).
Bye Bye Vine
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't government positions paid the same across the board? Financial compensation is companies (particularly in tech) isn't standard across the board for a particular position, each employee can garner a different salary.

There's a complex social dynamic related to that feature in companies.
This is cool, although the real trick is knowing when and how to employ methods that will mitigate the problems caused by cognitive bias to accurately identify and resolve conflicts and facilitate clear decision-making. This is the purpose of courts, the purpose of peer review, the purpose of debate.

Generally, it is not necessary to understand every single type of cognitive bias in a nuanced way to mitigate the problems. Indeed, sometimes cognitive biases overlap to the extent that trying to mitigate one, you'll wind up affected by another. What's important is that your behavior and social rules be oriented towards uncovering truth through dialectic methods.

Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist, recently posted a terrific video on the the issue viewpoint diversity on college campuses-- specifically, the lack of it. Problems of confirmation bias are exaggerated, especially in social sciences, when there's a lack of viewpoint diversity on campus. When everyone likes the conclusions put forth by a paper, no one is motivated to find the flaws. Thus the flaws are not found, the flawed papers get cited by other papers, and you wind up with a knowledge base that is increasingly divorced from reality. Whether you know the name for that bias or not is less relevant than actually addressing the structural problems.
It was terrible under Firefox on my Surface Book, so out of curiosity I then tried it on Edge: scrolling doesn’t work at all on the touchpad or touchscreen (the arrow keys, Space, Shift+Space, Home and End don’t work in any browser). The scrollbar is the only thing that allows you to navigate down the page.
>...hoping, jumping, dancing buffoon

Wasn't this too much?
Hey, we used bci2000 as undergraduates to run a little DIY BCI club - thanks for all of the work on it!

I'm kind of surprised to hear that being a quant is less stressful than being a research professor, though. I've heard that biology especially is a very "publish or perish"-y environment, but I guess I assumed that once people had a few prominent papers under their belts they might be trusted to work on something longer-term.
I don't think Facebook is waning.
The writing is on the wall. Traditional services just won't cut it for mobile and IoT. Who is willing to wait for 2-3 seconds for each service call to respond and be parsed per mobile event. I think this is also driven by SPA style programming where micro data segments need to be served almost at realtime vs. loading the entire service data. Microservices are the clear winner

Question is what is the migration path for enterprises from SOA to Microservices? And how much heavy lifting in terms of rewrite is needed.
"Spam" is also a nebulous term. A million actual humans having a genuine conversation about their Nazi ideology isn't spam, in most people's definitions. But a million actual humans having that genuine conversation while at-mentioning me unequivocally makes it impossible for me to productively use Twitter the product - which is really the reason spam is bad.

And that applies to traditional spam too: if a bunch of fake Nigerian princes emailed each other and only each other, we wouldn't have a reason to get rid of it, as long as there was technical capacity to deliver those messages. The spam part is that it makes it hard for me to get the emails I want.

I might have a disagreement with Twitter's priorities if there are a million actual humans quietly discussing their Nazi ideologies in a corner and not bothering the rest of us, and Twitter prioritizes their quality of service over the rest of our quality of service. Other people might not, and that's fair. Other people might have a problem with it regardless of whether it impacts other people's service, and that's fair. But I think that such a scenario isn't what is commonly meant by "abuse".
> I also think adblockers are a terrible idea. All we have done with ad blockers is started an arms race where the ads now come in the form of sponsored content so you have no idea what's an ad and what isn't. We need to just accept that advertising will exist and the premium for non advertising content is just too high to afford by the vast majority of users.

This is just not true. It's not like advertisers would have said "Ya know, everyone is allowing our ads. Guess that means we no longer need to try different delivery methods. All good here, lets go get a drink guys!"

We'd still have sponsored content without adblocking. Now, instead of seeing sponsored content and banner ads, I only have to filter out sponsored content.
I barely use Windows these days, mostly Mac and Linux both at work and at home. I'm interested in the Linux subsystem in Windows 10 but haven't had time to look at it. I'd like to believe that Microsoft is now a cuddly Teddy bear, but the strong arm tactics around Windows 10 updates and the International Harvester attitude about my personal data have been very off putting. Sadly, Apple is getting arrogant about updates as well, spamming me constantly about upgrading my phone to iOS 10. If they would both back off on some of that, I'd be a lot happier.

Having said that, the video I watched yesterday of the Surface Studio presentation was really impressive and I'm sure the content creation people will love it. Apple seems to have decided that they no longer care about that market, one they used to own. I'm saddened by that.

Edit: I especially liked the 3:2 aspect of the Studio screen! 16:9 is not the One True Aspect Ratio!
On the contrary, this is a great idea, and one I've considered doing myself (in fact, I think godot and I ran into each other discussing this subject on HN before).

I agree that advertising is useful and important, but it's too hard to make money from, and too easy to block with ABP et al.

My biggest gripe with this setup is that it comes with a built-in adblocker. It shouldn't seen as a tit-for-tat, the publisher should decide whether the user gets pushed ads or not (the user could still block these client-side, and the publisher could still block adblockers if they wanted to). I also don't think we need Yet-Another-Ad-Blocker, probably not a good idea to undertake that.

There should also be some sort of API that allows sites to check if the user is a CoinTent subscriber or not, which would allow the site to offer exclusive content to customers who actually pay.

People should get used to paying for things again, and a "cable subscription" model is the right type of thing here. A world where everything is free is unsustainable.
I've been eyeing Pop[1], which is a data-mapper/ORMish library wrapping around sqlx[2]; and it happens to contain a new DSL called Fizz[3] that allows for database-independent migrations.

To be honest, I have always tried to avoid Go ORMs after a bad experience with gorm, but the whole package is looking very interesting for reducing the boilerplate involved in Go CRUD applications without having to buy into a complexity risk. It's worth a look.

[1] https://github.com/markbates/pop

[2] https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx

[3] https://github.com/markbates/pop/tree/master/fizz
my 2c:

I know I'll get a lot of flack for this...but this is definitely not an end all, be all solution for services that depend on ads.

That said, this tool does have a place - to be the platform that provides content producers/publishers a way to fairly charge a subset of consumers to experience the product adfree.

* publishers/producers decide how much to charge / minute of use

* this neutral tool shows that transparently to the user and
the user can decide if he/she would prefer an paid ad-free experience or not. - maybe over time, this price fluctuates based on how users across network use the content etc. (to ensure quality does not fall etc.)

As for publishers/creators that charge exorbitant rates / minute - the market will take care of them - users would just adblock and they'd just loose $ (basically their loss - either they have a fair compensation or not at all).

BUT this tool is NOT the only way for producers to make money. Ads does have a place but this tool just helps those who want to pay and help producers and avoid ads at the same time.
Valid point. I agree.
And people not knowing how Git actually works is in my experience where most people's problems with Git stems from.
Great find! Doctors are famous for lousy financial decisions, which I think proves the point.
But don't most governments have pretty rigid definitions of what your salary will be based on role and experience? This open salary implementation seems to have a lot more wiggle room for change, variance and dispute than a typical governmental role.
Mirai was appropriately named
I'm in the same boat as you. What do you think is still missing in their Linux subsystem? I haven't gotten to play around with it yet, but my list of demands is pretty small:

- tmux works

- vim works

- bash works like on a Mac
thanks for the input, will update :)
The market set a cost in payoff in terms of quality of life and remuneration for both roles. He made the rational choice for himself and his family. Also, there are former financial engineers like David Shaw that have taken their earnings to literally try to cure cancer.
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His book is really interesting and an easy read. I guess it pays off to write things as simple as possible.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-eboo...

The one thing to take away from this election is that persuasion trumps everything else. It's scary and crazy!
This statement is not provably true. With a DNSSEC signed root anyone can host their own copy of the root zone, and we can all cryptographically verify that it is the same root. If someone were to sign a different root with the same key we would no longer be sure which was the right one. An attacker could redirect traffic away from TLD nameservers to their own nameservers.

I think you understand this. What I don't understand is why you think this scenario would not be a problem.
Gaetan Dugas actually died in March 1984 before the retrovirus now known as HIV was supposedly isolated. At the time AIDS was a clinical syndrome whose cause was unknown.

The cluster study that fingered Dugas as Patient Zero was used to argue that AIDS was a sexually transmitted disease rather than, for example, the results of cumulative toxic effects of drug abuse among the victims, notably the use of "poppers" by large fraction if not all of the original victims.

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

The study traced sexual contacts and was interpreted to show a sexually transmitted disease that resulted in death in about 10 to 18 months after transmission.

Dugas was said, not just in Shilts book, to have continued having unprotected sex with other men despite having been warned by the researchers that he was carrying an as yet unidentified super-killer sexually transmitted disease.

How true is this? Who knows, but it was widely repeated in documentaries and other sources well before Shilts book. It seems to have been promoted by the CDC.

In the subsequent three decades, the purported latent period between infection and death of AIDS/HIV has been lengthened to at least ten years. The modern theory of the disease, to the extent that one can pin it down, is grossly inconsistent with the early studies and claims by the CDC.

In the mid 1980's, after HIV was proposed as the cause of AIDS, the government did what one would expect. They infected about two hundred chimpanzees, thought to be man's closest animal relative, with HIV, or more accurately fluids thought to contain HIV. Of these, two have died of symptoms said to be similar to AIDS.

http://discovermagazine.com/2002/may/featchimp

One, known as Jerom, apparently came down with the symptoms spontaneously.

http://www.releasechimps.org/chimpanzees/their-stories/jerom

The second was supposedly infected with Jerom's blood or fluids from him and so is not a spontaneous case.

One out of two-hundred is 0.5 percent, about the incidence of AIDS in the general human population.

Here is another article about the remarkable immunity of chimpanzees to HIV.

http://www.mareonline.nl/artikel/1011/17/1401/
Just to be clear, Google Fiber in Austin is more marketing than reality. A small area of town has it--most do not. And while the other players have now introduced fiber, their coverage is also limited to select neighborhoods.

So, I don't agree that it's nice for Austin. This removes the incentive for the other providers to continue expanding coverage, and the core of the city will likely be stuck on the old cable lines for much, much longer.
Also Vine is getting shut down: https://medium.com/@vine/important-news-about-vine-909c5f4ae...
I hope that low power usage remains a key priority. Surprisingly, I don't see any mention of it in this article.
You are pretty much spot-on with matching up to my statement. Implicit in your claim is that science has an expectation, which is a gross conceptual error. The down-votes suggest you are not the only one.
The upside for me is mainly personal.

I believe Twitter to be an important platform; it's basically become our global public square. But abuse is limiting the depth and richness of the conversation by suppressing speech and driving people off of Twitter. I did anti-abuse work in the early days of web communities and it's something I care about a lot.

So the upside for me is the possibility that I can look back in 3-5 years and say, "Wow, our team made a big difference to a lot of Twitter users. They are now participating in ways that weren't safe for them before."

I expect that would also have significant positive impact on Twitter as a business. More users and more conversation benefit them, as does maintaining their position as a unique medium for connection. But personally, I'm mainly motivated by impact. As Tron says, "I fight for the users."
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Small Correllation between vaxx rate and breast cancer, testy, vagina cancer
I suppose opinions differ, but I like things where content is king, and these are excellent:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/

http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/

https://ludens.cl/Index.html
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I second that. Have mostly been playing with it on some toy projects of mine but works very well. Two main gripes:

1. Filesystem performance is very slow (ie. anything in /mnt), but I know they're working on it

2. I really wish I could get constant updates for WSL without having to opt-in to the Windows Insider Program. There are things I know are already fixed but I don't want to risk the whole OS just to play with an updated BashOnWindows.
It's also possible that they're either more interested in deeply exploring another culture or simply more flexible than those who spend nearly their entire lives in one culture are.
The vast majority of iOS (popular)apps also have telemetry.
If your project is small enough you can scrape it and generate all pages. You need a server only in development but then you can host it statically (and for free, e.g. on github).

Check out hasgluten.com for an example, code here (pretty old version of react though):
https://github.com/hasgluten/hasgluten
#ForgiveMicrosoft
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Twitter discontinuing Vine
8.8.8.8 DNSSEC validates. So that's a lot of people right there. I think Comcast also validates. There are others but I think you get the point.

You might be relying on DNSSEC validation without knowing it.
One of my concerns with Twitter is that I think their usage is going to drop considerably after the election is over. I say this only because half of Twitter mentions in the press related to Trump tweets.
have him struggle to pay for rising rents with kids to clothe and feed, and put him in a job that he can't afford to quit and where he has to struggle every day with a shitty boss

but it's inappriate to use as reference, in reasoning, the exact opposite.

Note that it's not powerful argument because it's the 'opposite'. It's powerful because this is the reality for the many/most of Americans. The argument isn't 'take away everything', it's 'put him in the same position as most people'.
Twitter closing Vine
Can you go into more detail on your setup? I've got a surface pro I'm thinking about turning into a little mobile coding station but I've been using my little lubuntu netbook for so long I'm not sure where to even start.
So how does getting fired/finding a new job work when you get fired from a bank like GS? It seems like usually you job prospects and negotiation power are much better when you are already employed. I'd think a fired employee would at least lose out a lot of money while negotiating salary from not currently having a job.
It's a shame. We have made many designs based on Freescale parts, and a large reason we chose Freescale was documentation. The NXP acquisition of Freescale seemed to largely maintain the status quo, but I am worried about qualcomm..
RIP Vine
Every time I fired up powershell to give it a try, I'm always immediately turned off by:

- How sluggish it feels. A remote bash shell on a raspberry pi feels more responsive to me than a local PS on a beefy PC.

- The way it is opened as a command prompt, in an unresizeable window (unless you fiddle with the settings every time), with no possibility of using shortcuts for copy/paste.

- Also, the default color scheme and font is horrible. I'm aware that it is trivial to fix it in the settings, but why turn off immediately first time users ?

For a normal user (not an IT admin) what are the benefits of learning Powershell for normal day use ?

What would be the best place to start, are there some good tutorials ?
But then how would they sell all that juicy "search history by people who normally avoid ads" that can normally fetch such a nice sum.
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It may have held true when you would read perhaps one newspaper or two a day. But these days, not a chance.

As a personal anecdote i keep finding myself skipping down long texts because so much of it seems to ruminate on the same info.
How about: don't give parenting advice before you have raised a kid?
I'm currently working for a UN-agency (as a contractor) and the salaries for staff are fixed based upon your job level and number of years of service, so basically everyone knows what everyone else gets:

http://icsc.un.org/resources/sad/ss/sal201201.pdf

A senior developer is usually P-3 or P-4. It may seem on the low side compared to market rates if you in New York or Geneva - but bear in mind they don't need to pay taxes and get quite a lot of other benefits.

Edit:

This site has more details on the salaries, benefits and theory behind it:

http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances/index.html
As teenagers with close friend circles, that's becoming more common. I wouldn't be surprised to see them pick up and get more involved with Facebook if/when they enter a larger community at college, or move to a new city, etc.
Sometimes people do have this attitude (and they need not necessarily be old), but in this case it seems like you're bringing some baggage to the table.
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Why not just sell it? I'm sure there's a buyer somewhere.
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Ill plug our new project, Desklamp. Its a replacement for the Redux + React Router standard. These two just weren't built to work with each other and so take a lot of extra code. Desklamp solves this problem by delivering a single library that handles both state and routing.

check it out here https://github.com/desklamp-js/desklamp and feel free to make pull requests and submit issues.

good luck in your tech journey
That's the cash flow, the hypothesized white washed flow of funds to select platforms under control of the said interested parties.
read reports of rate of user growth slowing down, teenagers switching to other platforms, and my own view that it is a millennial demographic phenomenon, like a pop genre.

They can make more money, but imho it will be through value added services on their graph and service diversification, not on user growth against todays advertising model.