skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iteration is not design: Debunking design Darwinism
People have been saying this at least since the Gamecube era and Nintendo was already over a century old by that point. People also said that the PS2 would sink Sony because of the rocky launch and the myriad production issues they faced in the first year. And that Microsoft didn't understand this industry and that the Xbox would be a brief sojourn into it.

Suffice it to say, gamers tend to have poor crystal balls.
Perhaps Muslims are owed justice for the imagery assaulting their prophet?

Is assault possible with only words and images? If it entices someone to commit acts of violence, yes. If it is the words themselves that cause injury, the reader has the option to not engage in risky behavior.
yeah, life isn't fair and never will be. deal with it.
While I think The Intercept is the most important news organization and overall a profoundly beneficial force in the world, I think it's important to note that The Intercept has been on a path to discredit Peter Thiel as retaliation for his support of the lawsuit against Gawker.

Several of The Intercept's reporters are former Gawker reporters and clearly carry a grudge against Thiel.

The Intercept has offered brave and groundbreaking reporting on the illicit surveillance operations conducted by the US Government, but has recently adopted the tactic of blending its reporting warning about surveillance with a focus on Palantir, likely due to its notable name and affiliation with Thiel.

Palantir got traction because it was able to meet existing government RFPs at lower cost than existing competitors. Palantir is not the only company building tools for the surveillance state, only the most notable in Silicon Valley.

I wish even a single news organization could keep its personal gripes/grudges out of its reporting. Suggesting that Palantir is unique in its catering to surveillance overreach is disingenuous. I also, fwiw, think that Thiel was within his right to help fund an adversarial lawsuit against Gawker. Gawker capitalized on its own large legal war chest, and it's fair that it suffered the same fate. It was not ideal, as Gawker was a source of good reporting and brave disregard of certain unfortunate laws, but nonetheless fair and not unethical. If all parties in lawsuits had a benefactor many miscarriages of justice would be avoided. This is a flaw of our legal system and nothing else.
True, tech in general seems much more accepting of different educational backgrounds. And affordable education is a really good point.
We consider this as just part of running a remote business - eventually it'll plateau as we are present in all the locations. For example, we have way more employees in Texas alone than in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, etc. combined.
That is one reason I've always preferred to control my music directly. Music in particular is something I can't stand to have discontinuity of playlists and collections with.
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> Unfortunately you'll find a good portion being spent on 20th century drugs, which suck immensely

Leaving aside any evaluation of the quality of modern drugs...

You raise my one concern about UBI. I'm fairly liberal, and particularly with the rise in automation, I see something like UBI becoming necessary. Unlike some conservatives, I have no real concern about people "mooching" or getting money they don't "deserve". Some WILL mooch, IMNSHO, but not most. And if it generates a society where people CAN succeed if they put forth the effort, I'm generally okay with those that are choosing to be lazy being lazy - just get them safely out of the way of everyone that isn't lazy and make sure they have every opportunity to improve their situation should they try to.

BUT - two of the big arguments in favor of UBI are:

* that it could be cheaper than the social programs of today

* that giving people cash can be the most effective investment (I think it was here that I saw discussion that a program to give the poor of developing nations chickens was successful at a small scale, but couldn't grow because at some point too many people have chickens for the eggs to have much resale value).

My concern is that some people - I expect few, but enough - will spend money and NOT cover their basic needs (food/shelter). If you shrug and let them suffer/die, you aren't who I want to be. If we run all the social programs in ADDITION to UBI you've made it cost more. If you try to regulate how people spend their UBI, you're hurting everyone's ability to innovate their way to greater wealth. If you try to only regulate those that are decided to not be able to spend wisely...that sounds dangerous, having those in power determine what is and who are "wise".

So while I remain very interested in UBI, I'm watching the current and planned-for experiments with great interest to see what problems arise, which problems don't arise, and to see how any problems are handled.
Oops - I misread "several thousand" as "about a thousand". Comment now corrected. The ratio is a bit less eye-popping now, but I bet it's still high by MOOC standards.
This is just as easy to write in English without ambiguity:

the (i) canning, (ii) processing, (iii) preserving, (iv) freezing, (v) drying, (vi) marketing, (vii) storing, (viii) packing for shipment or (ix) distribution of: .....
I knew a kid once. He was a 'junior operator' in a computer room .. you know, in the good ol' days, where the computers lived. (Before they escaped and attached themselves to your wrists.)

He thought he was smart. And sometimes, he was.

One day, he overheard a team leader talk to his programmers about the newly-minted database, sitting there in front of them on the table, on a brand new .. amazing .. 640Meg hard drive.

This database had consumed the disk. It had cost the company a cool million dollars to create. It was vital that we backed it up.

So, the new 640 Meg disk was on its way, onto which we'd back the database up. The first thing we'll do, the leader said, is copy the database, sector for sector.

"And only then, will we re-index the database!", he claimed. "Until then, the indexes will remain un-sorted!"

Well, the kid overheard all of this, but only heard "the indexes will remain un-sorted!".

Later that night, this kid thought he'd prove himself.

He re-indexed the database.

He didn't tell anyone.

The next day, a not-so-junior programmer came in, saw the database disk attached to the operator machine, and thought that the backup had been done. For reasons we shall not explain, he disconnected the disk from the operator machine.

The index had not been done.

The database was gone.

The new disk arrived, but nobody could mount the old database disk. Much panic ensued!

Operator logs were consulted. The computer room security cam tapes were spooled.

Oh shit!

Epilogue: I made a lot of money from those kids, writing a tool to recover a corrupted database, whose power had been removed mid re-indexing ..
> That isn't what projecting means.

"transfer or attribute one's own emotion or desire to (another person), especially unconsciously."

That seems to apply here, to my eyes.
Yeah, it seemed obvious... but judging by all of the comments here on how to "bypass" 403s, it actually wasn't obvious at all.
I am confused as to why you are bringing up 1960's technology? I don't see any comparisons anywhere to the original NASA programs of the sixties.
I thought the title was some kind of pun on "grassroots movement".
That doesn't really surprise me. A lot of people imagine that highly granular, multi-dimensional rating systems must be best and they're often not. Of course, it depends a bit on what you're trying to distinguish but then it may not really matter to distinguish among the 75% that people are genuinely happy with.
> Note: For things like bombs, nuclear reactors, medical equipments, voting machines, etc. It is allowed to have a permanent lock even if the software inside is licensed under the terms of GNU GPLv3+.

Not quite; e.g., Medical equipment designed to be installed in a home cannot be permanently locked under the GPLv3.
You're comparing Peter Thiel to Stalin? I don't have any issue with calling Stalin a monster because of his actions. Has Peter Thiel undertaken actions that could be compared to Stalin's?
There are only four South Indian states. I am aware of caste-based quotas, but not gender-based ones. Can you provide a source for this?
Interesting to flip it around, though: is the doctor who administers a (legally ordered) lethal injection a monster? Why or why not? Or, who gets to decide yes or no?

And where is the line? Is the programmer who writes code for a surveillance drone ( immoral? What about one who writes code for a submarine that may carry ballistic missiles? Or for the missile guidance system itself?
That is a good point! For me, if I click the step button, I can then hold down enter and it starts steping very fast. That may be browser specific though
>Is Finno-Ugric a magnet for this kind of speculation?

Oh my yes.
The framerate itself is an objective measurement, but the word "issues" is a subjective assessment.

If you want to provide facts, say what the framerate is, don't say that there are framerate issues. To continue my comparison, it is a fact that a certain reviewer assigned the game a certain score. Whether that is indicative of the quality is opinion, as are the reviews themselves.
I've lived in these places. I wouldn't call them "hopeless, jobless wasteland[s]," but they generally have much poorer metrics. I made a living outside the Bay Area the first 6 years of my career after leaving academia. My view is the quality of the jobs is poorer, the treatment of IT workers is worse (it's bad enough having second-class status even in the Bay Area but it's much worse, generally, elsewhere), the salaries are lower even taking into account cost of living, and the quantity of available jobs at any given skill level above the tech equivalent of "semi-skilled labor" is generally lower per capita.

But it is possible (obviously) for software developers to earn a salary doing a job there.
Headline: [...] 40% of Colleges See Dip in Foreign Applicants

Study: 39% of responding instituions reported a decline in international applicatons

Are you complaining about a 1% difference, or the difference between "colleges" and "responding institutions"?
I'm sorry, no knock against you, but that's the stupidest thing I've read in a long time. It starts at 35, than 40, than 45 than 50 and on and on until eventually 75% is towards everything else while your neighbor contributes nothing. Doesn't seem like a formula for success.
Plus Raytheon overheads and profit. Either of which might be a larger portion of the price than any one of those hardware items. I'm not saying this is necessarily bad, just that it's a cost component. I bet the DoD is not super cost-sensitive for amazing weapons systems that can protect large assets, but they drive a hard bargain on butter and toilet paper.

Is anyone at liberty to talk about overhead and profit margins for these kind of systems? I previously worked for a related business which precludes me from giving numbers.

The laser weapon might not have a per-shot profit margin. Though they can build that into the service contract...
>If you include the DVD service they have practically everything.

Though quite a bit less than they used to. My observation is that more and more back catalog type of items are no longer available.
Or use the reputation generated from successful missions to launch private satellites using your commercial arm Antrix Corporation and bring in more revenue for the government :) This is ISRO's end goal.
Given the fact that nearly every major corporation enacts some sort of affirmative action hiring system, women have every incentive to go into STEM in the US, yet are choosing other careers, which should be their right. Equal opportunity should be our goal, not forced diversity quotas.

As an aside, I don't hear many people complaining about the lack of diversity in other careers like plumbing, HVAC, or logging. Why do you think that is?
> Munipalities don't do it because they have no money.

Why isn't it self-funding? Issue a bond, pay for the network, lease it wholesale to competing ISPs, use the lease money to pay back the bond over time. Zero tax dollars.
Not acknowledging gender only makes sense when there has been no discrimination against that gender in the past. Women in STEM and especially in India have accomplished their successes in spite of heavy odds against them. Women in India (traditionally) have been expected to stay at home and take care of the family, not send rockets to Mars.

As such acknowledging their accomplishments while acknowledging their gender is not a bad thing.
...Because someone might try to harm you with one, intentionally... as in this case?
Palantir figures prominently in his book Zero to One, and is used as an example of his entrepreneurial approaches. It's also a tossup whether Thiel is more execrable for The Diversity Myth or Palantir is for being a key enabler of a surveillance state. They're bad in different ways.
You did a full restore of "terabytes" in <7 hours?
The US does not have a monopoly on high quality health care, and what use are the best experts if they're too expensive? It's not like you can have your pick of the US top experts as long as you're insured in the US.

I live in the Netherlands and our healthcare system is pretty damned good. I pay €92 (~100 USD) a month for my healthcare plan, which covers most anything (I only sometimes have to pay ~€50 for dental checkups out of pocket, but dental/jaw surgery is insured again). It even covers eyewear and contraceptives!

Our population is healthier, which probably helps keep costs down. I do wish our air quality was better, but there was only 10km's of road left that did not fulfill the EU maximum emission goals in 2015.
They used cameras that could do 15 million frames per second:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQp1ox-SdRI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera
You seem to think whoever opts into adding it to the pipeline makes the difference (client vs server). It doesn't. Consider that a client in a remove location can build in a caching load balancer into their pipeline that you wouldn't realize is present that is built with exactly the same software you would put into your pipeline.

Both clients and servers can have TLS terminating things in the chains that perform arbitrary functions. All of them increase attack surfaces and risks of implementation bugs.
Paul Graham is wrong. There's a finite amount of wealth. His idea of "creating wealth" is simply expending energy in order to transform some thing into a more valuable configuration; both fixing a car and writing a computer program fall into the category of rearranging atoms into more valuable configuration.
But energy itself is also a form of wealth, and there's only so much of it in the universe (and, more relevantly, on Earth) and only so much available to be used per unit of time.

In other words, you can bake another pie, but not without using some of the flour in your pantry and some gas to run the oven. Once the flour runs out, you're done baking pies.
I thought she was right and probably right to share the information, but I did think that her advocacy of a boycott rubbed me the wrong way. I'm not interested in getting the pitchforks and making it a moral issue, I just want people to mention stuff like that so companies doing it get a bad reputation as employers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13890782
I'm sorry, I haven't used Discord. From reading the post, I got the impression that you allow queries like:

from:jhgg "Fallout 4" -Witcher

Is that so? If so, you created a parser for this format yourselves and are converting that to ElasticSearch's Query DSL?
> do you want me to continue naming people who come from hard positions with little to no money and the inner-city and made it on a grand scale?

Yes, please continue. I'd like a large enough sample to dig into.
There are uses for this, but not in the applications you're thinking of.

Think recovering energy from radio waves, solar powered sand-size devices, etc.
>Sadly, the simple answer is "yes".

>I simply want to support them.

Nothing to be sad about. Also curious, why do you want to support them ? Being a market leader, Netflix is a unique position to influence some of these regressive practices. More support is clearly not helping; it's only making it worse by creating monopolies that exert even more negative influence.
> Unless there are other factors gaming the statistics

Would you not consider people who gave up looking for work because they cannot find employment as unemployed?
What does it mean to have a meaning that is "larger than" its context. What would that look like and what would its consequence be? If you just mean that every new statement also pushes the boundaries of or expands the discourse that it emerges from, then I agree, but that doesn't free it from its context. That new statement is still rooted in its episteme and any meaning it has is contingent.

What would be the criterion by which we could compare one system's correspondence to reality with another system? If there is no transcendental, supra-system way to compare, then where do you get the notion of "degrees" of conformation between reality and statements about reality?
If you think that is discriminatory, India also has caste based and in certain cases religion based quotas.
Started using Clubhouse a few months ago, and finding it way better for software projects than anything else we tried. We're a team of 10 people, and it works well for the developers and product manager.

In the past we've used Pivotal Tracker and Trello, but neither was a good fit. Also looked at Jira, but the interface had too much overhead (slow and required too many clicks to do anything).
Their reaction has been at least very un-profesional. I wouldn't trust them with my data. Specifically when you have a github in front of them.
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It's possible, but in my experience the stats NHTSA looked at were compiled by the police department, not the court. (They cared about how many tickets we wrote, not how many convictions were obtained.)

A more likely explanation is the severe underfunding and understaffing of prosecutor's offices and state court systems. Most prosecuting attorneys are responsible for carrying hundreds of cases at a time-- they have no choice but to prioritize, aggressively.
Well, this particular article was apparently written to highlight the gender of the professionals involved. So that could be why that aspect is drawing more attention than the accomplishment itself.
I work for an ISP and I can't imagine looking our customer's web browsing and such. The closest I come to that is Netflow data but (in our case) that's aggregated and doesn't identify specific customers.

> "Web browsing and app usage history are not 'sensitive information,'" CTIA said

I wonder if they might feel differently if someone hacked them or their ISP and posted a month's worth of traffic logs, etc., for the public to see.

Maybe if the Internet histories of a handful of the top-level folks at these organizations were shared with the world (along with their identities, of course), they would change their mind.
As a denizen of Houston and a very interested party in salary discussions I'm glad to see you mention us. Most people don't think of Houston beyond "Houston, we have a problem" and stereotypes of pickup trucks with gun racks in the window. However Houston is now more ethnically diverse than NYC [1], has a thriving arts scene [2] and as Wikipedia puts it "... is one of only five cities in the United States with permanent professional resident companies in all of the major performing arts disciplines: opera (Houston Grand Opera), ballet (Houston Ballet), music (Houston Symphony Orchestra), and theatre (Alley Theatre)."

Are there downsides to living here? Undeniably. The biggest being sprawl and traffic. However next to Austin's city council actively fighting growth and traffic management investment we're in better shape despite an unfortunate anti-rail mentality.

[1] https://kinder.rice.edu/uploadedFiles/Urban_Research_Center/...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Houston#Arts_and_th...
Do you have data that indicates the number of females in STEM fields is due to discrimination?
Hey Michael,

How do you when the right time is to quit a business that just isn't working? And how do you distinguish between normal obstacles and hardship vs real signs that signal the business isn't viable?
I appreciate the article--I spent about a year as kind of hikikomori.

Nevertheless I feel the need to make some minor critiques...I feel the author makes a number of small errors in trying to prove their point. For example, the author says:

"The Hikikomori phenomenon is now finding a form of narrative legitimacy in cinema, manga and pop culture. It is creating its own iconography. The novel Welcome to NHK (acronym for Nihon Hikikomori Kyōkai or The Japanese Hikikomori Association) plays with the name of Japan national broadcasting giant (NHK) and a story of a conspiracy to create the Hikikomori. The novel became a manga series and a twenty-four episodes anime series. Since then Hikikomori characters multiplied in anime and manga: Rozen Maiden, Serial Experiments Lain, Tatami Galaxy, Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, to name a few."

Welcome to the NHK is a novel from 2002, and the anime came out in 2006 iirc, so "now finding a form of narrative legitimacy" is maybe a bit disingenuous...and Serial Experiments Lain, which is from 1998, predated it and to my mind more properly fits alongside other cyberpunk meditations on technology and identity (interestingly, though, there is an 2channel-styled imageboard that has adopted Lain as its mascot). Similarly, I don't think someone would watch Tatami Galaxy or AnoHana and come away from those thinking that the "dominant theme" is about hikikomori-ness. At least, I didn't. You could certainly contest these points, though--the author's method of speeding through points that, if more properly explored, might not fit so cleanly into the essay's thrust, just left a bad taste in my mouth. Just my 2c.

It just crossed my mind that the American writer Tao Lin makes a number of explicit references to this lifestyle in his work; he has an ebook called "Hikikomori", which I haven't read, and his novels almost always have the main character spending days or months not really talking to anyone, feeling depressed, and just "doing things" on the internet. He has a book coming out in the future called "Leave Society".

If anyone knows of other American authors who treat this topic, would be interested. I feel like it has certainly come up in literature, just not under this name.
Correct.

We won't be able to compete purely on compensation with Google no matter where you are located.

However, you can expect an experienced engineer in St. Louis proper to be paid similarly well (6 figures, healthcare, retirement) -- equivalent for us to an engineer in small-town-Kansas, Chicago-area, etc.
Seriously interested in this. Was looking over the partner benefits and noticed the Clerky bit mentioned access to the fundraising beta for people who use Clerky for incorporating. So ... if someone already did the work a month ago to incorporate, and was chosen, they'd lose access to that service?
Using a programming language would avoid the scenario where there is more than one valid way to parse the same text. Usually, that's not the problem, though. Often times, the problem is that the correct parse is not the one people intended. Programming languages suffer from that too: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/2/6/automatic-semicolon-inserti.... And even more commonly, the problem is ambiguity in semantics rather than ambiguity in syntax. What is a "fish product," for example?