skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The CIA even sabotaged a planned series of documentaries about their predecessor, the OSS, by having assets at CBS develop a rival production to muscle the smaller studio out of the market. Once this was achieved, the Agency pulled the plug on the CBS series too, ensuring that the activities of the OSS remained safe from public scrutiny."

From the article even documentaries aren't safe. Also from the article, they have censored any reference to military suicides, which is certainly very real and quantifiable.

In my opinion, though, public relations should not be something the military should be actively engaging in. They are not a private entity nor a corporation, so why treat them as such?
> Well, was this an isolated incident or not?

An event that had the implicit backing of the school administration sent a widespread message.

Lynching in the wasn't 'widespread', but it's message was. According to this: http://time.com/3703386/jim-crow-lynchings Georgia had 586 total lynchings from 1877 until 1950. That's about 1 per county per generation.

> your prior definition:

Check usernames.
Solve escorts you through the airport like a VIP
If someone downvote, can you point out what is incorrect? It feels like saying anything negative about Tesla/EVs on HN is just downvoted without regard for merit.
I like how you think - let's just keep it simple and oppose all the things that suck then shall we?

I'll add that the best way to oppose something is to promote its opposite. Only because "opposing" has a tendency to backfire. We should therefore promote, for example, sexismlessness. Yes I made up a word.
Yes, it's best to avoid using color alone.

From the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG): "1.4.1 Use of Color: Color is not used as the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element." [0]

BTW despite the name, the WCAG are useful for non-web design.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#visual-audio...
And that is a good thing. This isn't the pre-industrialized world anymore, we live on a planet with finite resources where automation is destroying the need for large tracts of labor.
Holy shit. "from a game theory perspective" may be the single most bullshit y-combinator comment of all time.

"The pros vastly outweigh the cons" what fucking planet do you live on? The fucking article is how the women got fired, completely contradicting your goofy idea about how it's a win and you're 'safe'.

but the HUGE mindfuck here is that you believe thousands of men and women are outright lying in the biggest con game of all time but that a "a few assholes with power being assholes and not being checked by their peers" is a FUCKING BRIDGE TOO FAR THAT COULD NEVER REASONABLY HAPPEN WE MUST USE GAME THEORY TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH!!

"you get social credit as a victim" fuck you, you giant asshole.
And it only gets worse as the conglomerate grows. Due to my own history with Amazon as a Seller Support phone monkey, I probably couldn't get employ at Twitch or Curse, despite my resume in the games industry. Let alone something completely different at Woot, or Whole Foods, or the Washington Post. And that's not even getting in to a non-compete area specifically, just general employment as it relates to a child company and the mothership.
While this is a clickbait article, it's probably worth many high schoolers recognizing that compensation is simply unevenly distributed. There's an increasing realization that going to college does not give you a fast track to FTE status in many industries anymore, and there needs to be a better understanding of the fact that the job market is, well, a market, and salaries will adjust based upon the supply of that market.

I think a lot of current CS hopefuls coming in as freshmen are going to see a shocking market adjustment when there are tens of thousands of juniors competing for the same jobs, just as we saw with law degrees after the last recession. There are way more JDs than there are good attorney jobs, and even fewer partner positions that really bring in the money.

Market dynamics affect one's well being less when you are not shooting simply for compensation, but also job satisfaction. Of course, in our society, highly indebted students are forced to be all about the money and not about the satisfaction. This doesn't lead to successful careers. It leads to burnout, disillusionment, and ennui.
Obama Foundation issues a call for digital citizenship
Is the EB1A similar to O-1?
well, there are other possibilities; such as the philosophical-political underpinnings establishing the existence of 'the issues' (whatever that is) being countered.
Probably not, once tooling is in place. Running an implementation of the .NET platform would make it possible to attach standard .NET tools to the application running in the browser. (Once it was implemented in the .NET interpreter, of course.) That would give you a much nicer debugging environment than you'd normally get in a JavaScript application.
It's always interesting to hear about stories like these. Some of the speculations are interesting, but I tend to always leave with the idea that the truth is probably a lot less boring than we expect: i.e. someone fell out and the other person tried to save them but failed.
I am here to say (as a Tesla owner), that I truly hope this kind of behavior is not being tolerated by Tesla. I would hope Elon Musk or someone high up at the company investigates these claims. If they are baseless, they are baseless, but they are still worth investigating and possibly taking disciplinary and work process steps to fix them.

In regards to Vandenmeyer's story: from what I've read...I'm not sure I think it's super credible. I certainly could be wrong though.

I want to believe in Tesla just as much as the next tech-focused person, but of course I want them to have good corporate ethics and ferret out cases like this/investigate them. I would hope meaningfully!
Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome is something I very strongly agree with, I would be mortified to be given handouts because of a particular box I fit in.

Affirmative action reeks of plastering over a bug instead of squashing it at the root cause.
Everyone starts their journey with limited skills and learns subsequently. Early imposter syndrome is not extraordinary.

However in a healthy team you get pats on your back from boss / colleagues and soon outgrow the syndrome. Persistent syndrome means there's something very wrong in team dynamic / boss. Change jobs until you find accepted and the syndrome will disappear.
> You can't really negate it with immigration, can you?

Well from a purely numerical standpoint, yes you can.

> Worse yet, you can end up with "illegal" elderly with zero savings. That would make for a miserable sight.

That describes a huge number of native elderly in the USA too. Most elderly rely on social security entirely.
> That is, most companies (regardless of conscious choice) are finding the best (young, white) male developers only.

The implication here is that earned (through training) software and programming skills are equally distributed among the entire population. This is simply not true just by looking at StackOverflow/CS major demographics.

They are finding the best female developers. There just aren't that many (for whatever reason)
I'll preface this by saing: I'm not a Mac user and am unlikely to ever use this or any other tools built for macOS.

But, it's really great to see work being done on an intuitive native interface for this sort of thing. Major props for the write-up on the security of the tool, too. Lots of transparency there as to how the tool works under the hood, and it sounds like you've put a lot of thought into how that should work.
If you think about the initial communications infrastructure around North America when Columbus set sail in the 15th century, we've got a leg up.

I realize it's not the same situation, not the same expectations, a different world than 500+ years ago, but real progress doesn't happen in a cleanroom.
We have replaced the article's title with a representative phrase from its body in the hope of saving this thread from the dreaded title fever.
The Top 19 Books That Can Make You a Smarter Person
Betting on any kind of physical retail profession seems pretty risky to me now days.
Virgin Galactic set to start powered flight tests for 2018 commercial trips
As someone who has been surrounded by blue collar workers growing up. (Live on Farm and parents ran construction company). I would tend to agree with the quote. I am sophomore in college and it would appear that friends in high school who skipped out on college and are working now are economically and socially farther ahead in life than most of my classmates in college.
>And you've perfectly illustrated the current problem with science reporting.

What "reporting"? This is a science paper -- and its actual title.
> So perhaps things have gotten better.

Yes, because of the actions and attitudes of people who give the subject its due attention, not the people who write it off as fatiguing.
Did you adjust your diet during that period of time?

What do you think was the original cause?
'Los Angeles embodies diversity.' New sculpture celebrating freedom is unveiled
Buildings fail over time. Yet when you rent a flat you have a reasonable expectation that it won't collapse on you.
Perhaps there is a good function between product age and monthly warranty cost that creates the right incentive.
And others say that you can't solve the problem of exclusion by having exclusivity. You can instead lead by example, which is not the same as pretending that the problem don't exist.

Then there are alternatives solutions which don't include either inclusivity nor exclusivity. Instead you address underlying issues that create the unwanted behavior. That too would not be people pretending that the problem don't exist, but rather a indirect way to solve the problem.

Different solutions have different drawbacks and benefits. Criticism of one don't mean the denial of the problem.
Circa 1992, during the first hyper growth period. I was in Store Planning, a particularly stressful, dysfunctional group. I know many others who've had great jobs, careers there. I was just unlucky, immature, naive, etc.
I sincerely hope you are trolling.
Funnily enough, that's a quote by Samuel Beckett. I was named after one of his books :)
Symmetriis in Veritate
>Reasoning from first principles is a huge downfall the higher up the science stack you go. The only time you really reason from first principles is in math. When you get to psychology and sociology, you need try fit observed data to hypotheses.

Observed reality/experience -- which is what the author invokes -- is not "first principles" though.
> A smart contract is simply an agreement between parties, written in codes and enforced by a third-party.

No, it is an agreement between parties enforced by cryptography, and no third party required.

> In the case of Ethereum, it is enforced by cryptography.
No it is enforced by payment to the network, just like aws, but in a worst way, because code is executed wastefully, while still remaining at a central location.

What you are not understanding is that a smart contract is a protocol amongst people. You don't code it anywhere in the blockchain directly. It a a protocol that explains how, if each party runs code independently, assuming everyone as a criminal, still achieves its goal. For eg, multisig is a smart contract, which is a protocol where participants decide what code they'll run (signing) and the wallet layer that makes them meet is a separate layer altogether, not in the blockchain. Sometimes this layer may not even be required, for example in money-laundering or any of the 'hundis'.
Economists and psychotics are the only creatures who, when they and the universe do not agree, believe that it is not they who are wrong but the universe.

More to the point, you may not want uncontrollable deflation just like you don't want uncontrollable inflation, those are system instabilities due to feedback. But a controlled deflation that responds to long-run demographics and economic reality is no problem. In fact, forcing the opposite is stupid.
So following this reasoning, the entire continent of Africa, most of Asia, and most of South America should have massive amounts of people so they can reach prosperity?

Sorry. Not buying it. Growth is an ok thing as it happens, but as populations increase demand for resources such as land and water produce pressures that only get worse with more people. There's a reason you can sell a parking spot in Hong Kong for half a million dollars but can buy a lot of land in Canada or something for next to nothing. China was wrong to stop the 1-child policy. I'd like to see it implemented globally. Along with that I'd like to far reduce immigration to the United States (I'm just using the US as an example since I currently live here) as I don't want to see the population continue to grow. In the long run, population growth is good for me as a property owner and somebody with wealth, as prices on things like water and homes won't affect me, but I'm not selfish and I want people to not have to struggle to obtain basic resources or housing.
If you lent half the time & energy into reading, researching, and just general thinking about this problem that you have thinking about wild conspiracy theories, we'd all probably live in a better world for it.

But we'll continue living in the bad world, because of it.
These kinds of problems aren't really being solved by having a mandatory seminar. There are broad cultural issues at play, and certainly quite a bit of corporate ass covering.

However, I don't think its reasonable for anyone in an employment situation to have to suffer because of the psychological problems of their peers and especially their superiors. Sexual harassment is just one egregious example.

If you are really worried about litigation, stop putting narcissistic sociopaths in your management structure. I know that sounds hard. At least you can try?
> I can make nasty off-handed comments to my friends in private chat all day, with very little fear that it'll see the light.

And then, someone decides to take a screenshot, out of context, and post it somewhere for the whole world to see.
we don't even know if it was Elon's idea.
Location: Greater Seattle, cannot commute into the city easily from where I am.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, C++. Assembly programming, HTML/CSS, MATLAB.

Rusty experience with C, FORTRAN, Java. Use a Linux system. React, Angular 1.0, Node.js, Hapi and Express. Django, Numpy, Scipy, Sympy, Matplotlib. Dabbled in Cython, Boost/Eigen. PostgreSQL, mySQL, MongoDB, little bit of AWS.

Resume: Email me if you'd like it, along with my GitHub info, Skype id, etc.

Email: irgeorge@gmx.com

I come from a physics background, so I have a strong liking for mathematically oriented tasks, as well as doing research and learning new tools, or new mathematics, fast. That being said, I've been getting into web development in the past year: I'm more of a back-end developer by natural inclination, but I can work the full stack. I've long had an interest in computer science (I did computational/theoretical condensed matter, am quite interested in HPC) and have studied data structures, algorithms, multithreading, TCP/IP/socket programming, et all in my spare time. Currently getting into computer architecture/operating systems. I'm really itching to pick up Haskell once my job hunt ends!

I am looking to start work as soon as possible, and have no commitments to prevent relocation on a short notice. I am a US citizen. I'm open to working abroad as well as within the USA.
URL is solve.com. I wonder how much that cost…
Ask HN: Take over family business or pursue my own professional goals?
Throwaway account here. For multiple generations, my family has owned a manufacturing business in the Midwest. It is profitable, and the family and most employees would like me to be the next CEO. I have plenty of ideas for improving and modernizing the company, and would be paid terribly well (in the ballpark of $250k/yr in the Midwest), assuming I keep the same salary as the current CEO. However, this opportunity isn't really in line with my own personal professional goals.

By that, I mean that I would ideally like to continue my graduate studies and get my PhD in computer science (applied machine learning focus). After that, I've dreamed of working for a large tech company like Google where I'd have the opportunity to work on research and explore my own entrepreneurial ideas.

Obviously these two career paths are not mutually exclusive. I do not really want to stay in the small Midwestern town I grew up in, working in an industry I am not particularly excited about. However, the company is important for our community and I don't know what its fate would be if I did not step up. Lots of hard-working factory employees' jobs could be in jeopardy.

I would be interested in hearing insight from others who may have been in similar situations, or may have had external influences on their career paths. Thanks so much for your time everyone.
Didn't dive in too much yet but heads up that your hero animation is a bit funky in Chrome (stable). Here's a screencap: https://cl.ly/0D031Z0p3v26. The glitch happens towards the end of the recording.
Would it be difficult to make a program that sits in the audio stack (probably on Windows) and tries to run voice recognition on everything coming over the line and then renders anything that sounds like speech at the bottom of the screen?
I have to deal with douchebags and people I don't like on a daily basis, people who make my job hard and people who I'd like to vanish off the face of the earth. I don't write blog posts about it, because

1. nobody cares

2. this is what life is like and some people just need to toughen up a bit.

Assholes exist, don't try to shield yourself from them, learn how to fight back and they'll respect you.
I think he might be commenting on the fact that it's a blog post...about a blog post.
Also, it isn't necessary that a ticket creates accountability for the task to be completed. If your process management doesn't include triage, and triage doesn't consider tasks that haven't been touched in awhile, it probably needs some work, too.
I don't know the answer to that; it just seems odd to say she should have refrained from politicizing her work if that's exactly what they hired her for.
There's no credit being given other than a mention of where it was heard. He said it recently, I remembered it, I said as much.

It's not a profound or difficult concept, but interesting to have articulated.
> The money and involvement have had quite an effect. Just look at the percentage of combat films Hollywood makes and compare to 30 years ago. To go by Hollywood the country is on a war footing.

But the US has been at war in Iraq/Afghanistan for the past 16 years, so the "war footing" is actually just a fact of life, not something spurred by US military throwing money at Hollywood. There are many many movie-going age people for whom war has been a constant for over half of their lives. Of course there's going to be a lot of war movies now.
Just thought it would be worth pointing out some other costs we don't typically consider here besides development costs is litigation costs...

The most troubling wave of ADA litigation is just beginning to crest. The ADA’s next frontier—and next target of litigation—is the most innovative segment of the domestic economy: e-commerce. The latest trend in ADA litigation is suing commercial websites that aren’t sufficiently accessible to the disabled—because, for instance, they lack assistive technologies for the blind or hearing-impaired. Even though the ADA was enacted before websites became ubiquitous, many courts have interpreted the term “public accommodation” in Title III to encompass the Internet, and will entertain suits applying to it.
In 2008, Target paid $6 million to settle a class-action suit brought by the National Federation of the Blind charging that the retailer’s website was allegedly insufficiently accessible to blind customers. Target also paid nearly $4 million in costs and attorneys’ fees to the plaintiffs. Why would Target pay $10 million to settle a case when the law is unsettled and its culpability far from certain? Class-action lawsuits are particularly expensive to defend, and because the potential liability is aggregated to reflect the entire class (all blind consumers, in this example), the financial exposure for a firm if it loses in court presents an unacceptable risk to most corporate defendants.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/ada-litigation-monster-151...
Personally, I don't think tribalism / group-think, as well as public / private image spaces are very new things at all. Scandals, blacklisting, even execution for having the "wrong opinion" for the social norm of the time -- that's unfortunately pretty common throughout history.

From my viewpoint, an issue with a lot of today's social media is it doesn't feel as nakedly public as it really is. Personally, I wouldn't go into a large room of often random people that you don't know well, and loudly break traditional rules of etiquette by broadcasting inflammatory viewpoints on potentially pot-stirring topics like politics, religion, etc. Likewise, I feel the same with Facebook: that is not the place to discuss these sorts of topics due to how very public Facebook is. Yet a lot of people do that on Facebook and Twitter every day.
I imagine the value of a pre-production Model 3 will be quite good in ten years. Look at what the iPhone (original release) is worth. Or perhaps a Ford Model T?
It should be at least 5 years for large home appliances like washing machines, refrigerators, TVs, etc. Cars too.
At Pebble we employed Canadian contractors who received TNs for travel into USA for meetings etc. Happy to share our TN docs. Eric at ycombinator
One invites scrutiny by advertising one's anonymity.
> So I’m not the problem you’re trying to solve.

I guess the natural question is "how would you go to find and fix the problem?" (not complaining here, I think the post is great)
"Hi cholantesh! Just saw your new survey. Looks great!

Hey, have you seen the HRC's recommendations for surveying gender? I've used their guidelines in the past. Very helpful! http://www.hrc.org/resources/collecting-transgender-inclusiv...

TLDR: They suggest splitting the gender question into two parts.

As you know, this is a super important issue for me. Progress! Exciting! If you're busy, I'll make a pull request. Please let me know if I can help in any way. Thank you, Specialist"
The argument is more like 'soldered RAM' versus 'user replaceable RAM'.
I didn't say "monopoly on violence". I said "overwhelming force". It is perfectly possible for governments to have a monopoly on violence but still not have overwhelming force at their disposal: in fact that was the case when the US Constitution was written (for example, "keep and bear arms" in the 2nd Amendment was intended to include private ownership of warships). It is also perfectly possible for no entity to have a monopoly on violence and for no entity to have overwhelming force at its disposal compared to others (for example, in a number of American colonies, such as Pennsylvania in the early 1700s, while there was technically a "government", it did not have a monopoly on violence and private enforcement of laws was common, with all citizens being in roughly the same position as far as the force at their disposal).

I was merely recognizing the fact that, in today's world, governments, at least of developed countries like the US, do have overwhelming force at their disposal compared to private citizens. Whether that is because they have a monopoly on violence or for some other reason is irrelevant to the point I was making, which is simply that private citizens have to recognize and deal with the reality and limitations of what "ownership" means in today's world.