skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this 100%. I went to a state school (michigan state) on an academic scholarship instead of going to rensselaer or MIT, where i'd been accepted but with a lot more loans in my financial aid package.

It's conceivable that I'd have had a better job right out of college, especially given the network effects of the big-name schools, but I got an excellent education. Of course, my job prospects were helped by grad school (UC Berkeley), but by that time I knew very well what I wanted to Be When I Grew Up, so the investment was worth it (and ended up being very small, as I managed to live cheaply (it was the early 2000s) and swing a grad assistantship most of the time. On top of all that, the stuff I'm doing means I have to keep learning all the time, so the actual stuff I learned as an undergrad and in grad school was far less important than the habits of mind I acquired there that made me a good learner.

Bargain hunting for an education is really important. I've met lots and lots of people since graduating, some were amazing at their jobs and could get work anywhere and some were ... not. That didn't seem to correlate much with alma mater.

So yeah: a college degree can be great, but you don't need to go to a small elite private school to hone your analytical, technical, communication, and creative skills. It's way more about making use of what's available.
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That relies on having a product that is already generating revenue, how do you apply that to R&D like autonomous cars where that revenue isn't currently present?
Relevant links:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/bufreader-100x-slower-than-pyt...

http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/73753/how-can-...
> * How is that any different from VCs being board members of various startups and those same startups "magically" being acquired by the more successful one? Why is it OK when VCs do it and not OK when a rank-and-file engineer does it?*

Well it certainly doesn't sound like he was rank and file, but regardless I'd imagine the difference is that he had a contract that said he wouldn't.
> The only necessary assumption is that 51% of the hash power is not conspiring against you.

Or s network operator , to be pedantic.
I remember reading that this is a huge problem for companies in the "self-driving" space.

There's a lot of competition for this skillset, so you have to keep on giving more to the engineers... but then they have a bunch of money and they have less lock-in for the job. When you have $20 million in a bank account, why are you going to go make a powerpoint for your manager?

But if you give them "options" that might be worth nothing... well why not just go to Uber with their millions of Actual Real Cash(TM)? Or why accept "founder" salaries instead of real salaries?

Not that there's anything wrong with this, but the classic employer/employee relationship starts falling apart when the employees end up being this value.
Because my distro signed it? That is pure centralized trust.
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Restoring /dev/null from tape backup
One in my area straight-up said "H1-B Visa's Preferred" on the job notice. Not even worried about hiding it. I wonder if any are doing that now.
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I'd describe category theory as the study of connected things. It turns out that many things are connected, and often the connections are exactly what makes something both interesting and complicated. Getting better at those sorts of problems is a concretely useful skill. And it's not just functional programming, where connections are functions between things. You can have things like orders, where a single connection exists between x and y iff x <= y. There's a nice connection between database schemas and categories too. I've found it useful in formalizing difficult problems.
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> Conflating a home and a car is a bad argument. Homes have been required for hundreds of thousands of years. Shelter has been a human need since before humanity.

The need for transportation is just as ancient as the need for shelter. Before cars, it was a horse, or camel, or a chariot, or something else on wheels.

I think you underestimate the strength of car culture, and the value people place in personal space (at least in the US).

And as with so many things, why can't these unnecessarily-competing worlds coexist?

There are millions of overly confident entrepreneurs rationalizing millions of wacky, over-engineered money-grabs and only a few of those ideas have strength to be so culturally and socially transformative as the world you describe. Is the end of car ownership one of those lofty ideas? I am not so sure.

Edit: and on a more personal level, I see ideas like that -- the end of ownership, whether it be cars, software, or land -- as an attack on individual ownership, so that moneyed interests can instead own everything and lease it to the peasants at their leisure (and profit). The world needs the opposite: to make ownership easier and less costly, and to restore the the increasingly-stratospheric costs of everything* down to levels that put ownership within reach of the common man. Not owning cars is just another step towards feudalism.

* As for how, there could be much to gain simply by analyzing the cost structure of stuff and stripping out unnecessary middlemen, expenses, and materials. Adopting a more restrained form of capitalism, like what one sees in tight-knit economic communities or in idealized small-business environments, could perhaps foster a business culture centered around balancing customer, employee, and shareholder value. The current system of only maximizing shareholder value creates much of the turmoil, unnecessary innovation, and naked profiteering we see today.
I was more scared just outside work at the Twitter HQ in SF (Market and 10th) than I was anywhere in DF.
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Jeez. Whatever he's got to say, I couldn't see past the mountainous ego to get to it.
Would a successful targeted exploit be detected?
Anecdote here: Once when I wanted to rent an apartment in a nice apartment complex they wouldn't even show me the apartment without me showing them my ID. I ended up renting the place and never had a problem.
Not really. It also fetches new bootstrap nodes from DNS servers. But neither is very much trusted as it takes only 1 valid connection to relay other valid network addresses.
Twitter , online research if it's a person I want to know in my industry.
But I would say Twitter, Reddit etc
What race are they losing? Google search/ads is a monopoly or duopoly. You don't need to pay execs $100MM to maintain this--just need to keep the DOJ off your back. The rest (self-driving cars, et al) is money losing window dressing.
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because you trust yourself, moron.

don't you?

you're all idiots.
"Malaysia has a dual legal system so any sharia law there doesn't apply to non-muslim."

The important disclaimer to such statement is "For Now". There's guarantee that will not change in the future.
Prediction networks. But I don't think TFA is actually doing what is claimed, by the looks of it.
Sorry, I couldn't understand what this was doing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14026921
Founder/CEO here. I read every email to jobs@glowforge.com personally.
Probably depends on your workplace, but at Google canary has meant a subset of production running at a newer version at least since '07.
Markets are irrational and always have been, and the cool factor has been around since at least the 1920s. You sound like you could be an extremely capable investor; disillusionment is a really good starting point. The next step, if you're interested, is reading The Money Game by 'Adam Smith', which was written in the 1960s but reads like a description of the 2000s... I also recommend 1929: The Year of the Great Crash, although I forget the author at the moment.
Fake news yet again. This author doesn't understand that all of these exposures have been effective since at least 2015 and, had the Obama-era regulation not changed at all, would continue through December or later (never if it failed to get OMB approval).

Soon every mistake you’ve ever made online will not only be available to your internet service provider (ISP)...

Not "soon". Already and for over 1.5 years now.

Thanks to last week’s US Senate decision and yesterday’s House decision, ISPs can sell your entire web browsing history

No, that's been the case and would be for over two years.

The only rules that prevented this

No, the Obama rule change didn't take effect during his term and would not have until next December.

etc.

etc.
Just want to say it's fantastic to see this and hope you have great success. If I were in the Seattle area I'd definitely consider applying!
I suppose it's probably something along those lines or the fact that the end product doesn't(to my knowledge) reflect the RO unit working correctly. With pharma they need RO to feed to WFI to use to make the drugs or do their research and it needs to work every day. Still seems like a simple RO system with a basic PLC would work fine on a ship to supply drinking water.
Google paid its self-driving car boss $120M – and then he left for Uber
That has to do with people used to frameworks and coming to React expecting that. I personally had the same issue.

If you are used to framework based development (Angular, Vue, Backbone, etc) you are not used to making decisions for yourself and to chose when to use what. Don't get me wrong, opinionated frameworks are good and fill a gap.

But you have to know that when you are developing using libraries you make those decisions yourself and thus you have to think a bit more when you chose something and why.

Redux is just one way to handle state in React apps. Might be the most used one but by any means it is the only one or the silver bullet.
It doesn't matter that much that they're "PRIVATE sector contractors". Defense contractors do not operate like normal private-sector companies. In normal companies, they try to keep costs limited, so that they can maximize profit. They can normally only charge so much money to customers, so the less they have to pay in costs, the more they keep as profit.

In defense companies these days, they usually do what are called "cost plus" contracts. That means the government pays them whatever it costs to do the job, plus a profit margin. So, the incentive is to bloat the project beyond all belief, because that increases the costs. Then the profit is multiplied, since the profit margin is fixed.

Splitting the project up among a ridiculous number of contractors to cover as many congressional districts as possible doesn't help the situation.

Basically, the F-35 is a huge make-work program for the US.
This site is down at the moment. I tested it with http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/blog.plover.com too just to be sure.
It's $85k usd. So yes low.
I think it was Ven that was the concept I liked where you build a currency on a bunch of commodities targeted toward stability. Clive Robinson on Schneier's blog had previously described that as the best solution then I stumbled on Ven.

http://www.popsci.com/worlds-most-stable-currency-is-backed-...

So, my scheme was to put something like Ven in a sane country such as Switzerland under a nonprofit/foundation with strict rules aimed at preserving stability, security, innovation of ecosystem, and cap on admin overhead. If that works out pretty well, we can try a decentralized version of the same thing. Meanwhile, centralized can already work very well. Just eliminate as many incentives to mess it up as you possibly can to make it better.

The big brains haven't explored this option enough since they want a crypto/algorithmic solution to hard problems instead of using the well-understood systems of law, accounting, and safe investments. There's also a strong preference for decentralize stuff highly-likely to fail vs centralized stuff way better than what we have. I think that's ideological or even youth-related.
I assume he wants to solve climate change by criminalizing climate change denial like holocaust denial is in Germany. Pretty absurd.
As a Cornishman, this is basically what's taught in the schools, yes. You live in a godforsaken suburb miles out of London but you pretend that, unlike us, you somehow live in a city. ;-)
I'm not sure what you intend to mean. If you intend to mean that you must trust your ISP, that is false. ISPs cannot forge blocks due to the proof of work. The worst your ISP can do is a DoS attack delaying block delivery, and that is fairly easy to detect.
> Sometimes I think that half of HackerNews didn't even know solar or battery backups were a thing before Tesla. These are competitive spaces where Tesla has essentially no market share (just like cars).

I'm genuinely curious if the numbers reported by SolarCity represent the full picture. [1] shows SolarCity with ~35% national marketshare while the closest competitor is at just over 10% (Vivint). This was in 2015, but it still appears to have a significant lead.

[1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/research/subscription/u.s.-pv...
There isn't in law, but, in most (maybe all?) US jurisdictions, only a lawyer can own a law firm.
"Even in a country where mass shootings are common..."

Speaking of "conspiracy theorists"...
Thank you for this. I would have naively accepted the article. Family members suffer from AD so this is particularly interesting for me. How can they pervert the nature of the findings so drastically?
I was about to make that connection, this is similar to Brazil's boletos. The difference is that in Brazil it is a standardized system that spans all banks: anyone with a bank account that wants to receive money can have their bank issue a "boleto", which is essentially a barcode that routes money to the destination account. A payer can go to any participating place (post office, convenience store, bank tellers, etc) and surrender cash, which then gets routed through the banking system to the right account.

Which brings us to a potential problem: there has been a tremendous amount of fraud in this system (Brazil's Boletos), with all sorts of malware changing the barcode when it is downloaded in an infected computer to issue a boleto with a different destination account.

Back in 2014 this was well documented by Krebs[1], and at amazing detail by @assolini from Kaspersky[2]. I also documented a specific case that happened to a friend[3]. While it should be possible to mount similar attacks on the Amazon system, having people deposit money into others' accounts, it should be straightforward for Amazon to detect this, since it is a single issuer system...

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/07/brazilian-boleto-bandits...
[2] https://securelist.com/analysis/publications/66591/attacks-a...
[3] http://cs.brown.edu/~rfonseca/notes/net-bb-dns-poison.html
I accidentally find that if my phone is off / off-data, I can read the books that I want, BUT it'll take some time to adjust my mind, a week in my case

I intend to do that from time to time as the to-read list is growing :D
Yahoo+AOL = Oath? LOL OMG WTF
> the architecture (particularly D.F.) makes for a crazy, exciting mix

D.F. is an alias for Mexico City. From Wikipedia:

On January 29, 2016, [Mexico City] ceased to be called the Federal District (Spanish: Distrito Federal or D.F.) and is now in transition to become the country's 32nd federal entity, giving it a level of autonomy comparable to that of a state.
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Science is subject to interpretation on a spectrum of levels. How accurately can biology predict when a cell will split? Perhaps economic supply and demand is statistically predictable in the same fashion.
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With the exception of Hong Kong, aren't these all pretty authoritarian states?
Yeah totally. I think to go with the biological analogies Kay makes, having them be async objs running code they message-pass to each other makes more sense to me than like methods on classes. In the latter there is still a hierarchical ontology of objects imposed top-down while in the former emergent behavior occurs bottom-up.

"Notes on the Synthesis of Form" (from Kay's reading list on the Squeak website) has some interesting stuff about trying to take graphs of nodes like this and figure out a good hierarchical decomposition given emergent discovery of edges.

Here's something I've been thinking about lately: what if the object edges were organized spatially like a cellular automaton, maybe we can use spatial intuitions then, and if we only allowed linear-typed resources to be passed between them we actually have conserved "flow" of these resources, allowing the use of tools from economics to study the flow. Then it ends up looking like https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/growing-artificial-societies except with programmable monadic behavior at each cell. The linear-typed resources will allow linear proofs locally at each object but the monadic programming of each will allow non-linear emergence.
I think your definition comes from Amazon/AWS... haven't heard it much from outside Amazon.
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This is about tracking the source code using git. The specific thing being guaranteed is that they won't rewrite history; if they rebase you (and many others) will detect it.

Of course you're still trusting them in other ways.
There is a fundamental difference between obscure and secret. Private keys are secret.
The article says "recognizing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as legal tender"

The definition of 'legal tender' is something that must be accepted to settle a debt. For example, if you owe me 500USD (under a contract governed under US laws), and you offer me 5x 100USD notes to settle it, I have to accept. If you offer me 100x 50GBP notes, I don't have to accept, even though the market value of those notes is higher than the value of the debt.

I highly doubt it's the case that a creditor in Japan is now forced to accept Bitcoin in the settlement of JPY-denominated debts.

Ergo, not legal tender. Ergo I don't trust the rest of the article.