skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've already conceded that most universities are majority liberal and that being in a minority is always uncomfortable.

The rest of your anecdotes are just that. So one guy has some bad coworkers. BTW, my response is more than just any old anecdote -- It's a refutation of the single anecdote that you're offering. Same time, same place.

Do people get harassed and fired for political beliefs? Absolutely. And the fact that organizations like FIRE fight back when this happens is great.

But the "liberals attacking free speech on campus" thing is a bunch of politicized bullshit. At most non-religious universities, this isn't happening in any meaningful sense.

Let's put this in perspective. FIRE has less than 1000 cases over the past decade that I can find on their website. Literally millions -- probably tens of millions -- of controversial speech acts happen on American campuses every year.

Universities are still bastions of free speech. If you're conservative, you might find a lot of people who disagree with you. But the odds are extraordinarily small that you'll be silenced in any meaningful way. Like literally a one in a million+ shot.

I'm not saying that it's OK when it happens. I'm just saying the whole "liberals shut down free speech on campus thing" is over-dramatized echo chamber bullshit, that you only notice because there's an entire cottage industry generating outrage every time that 1/1000000 event happens.
Speaking for me... a lot. Things like avocados went from being the most expensive in town, to th least, and that's one example of many.
Exactly. While nothing can completely stop attackers, there are multiple techniques you can layer to slow them down. E.g:

* Credential vaults that allow only-once retrieval on application startup and only keep credentials in memory

* anomaly detectors for request patterns (suspicious payload formats, processing time, CPU/memory usage, etc),

* Honeypot records in sensitive data stores (records you know should never be accessed, if they are you've been breached)

If you're storing information this sensitive you need to be paranoid, because an attacker has a $4B incentive ($30/identity on the black market * 143 million records) to crack your systems.
You can't, you're the product not the user unfortunately.
Isn't that the logical approach to teaching it though? Start with the base case, analyze how it functions, then start looking it how it changes when you remove an assumption.

Similar to how physics starts with perfectly elastic point-masses in vacuum on a friction-less plane.
Wait, Bandcamp is a news source?
"she might go into the fact that the Chief Information Security Officer at Equifax holds a masters in music,"

To be fair, I would say a third of the Infosec professionals I know have backgrounds in the ARTS (myself included). While the CISO is definitely suspect, having an arts degree doesn't make one less of an effective INFOSEC practitioner. In fact, the creative nature of those drawn to the arts has proven valuable finding creative solutions to problems within our organization.
I'm not saying that's what they are, but somehow I got the impression that maintainers of projects that are good enough to attract payments for pulls, would have marketable skills, and be ahead, regardless of the market they live in.
It's contextual. If a person developed a situation in which a creative work was produced, i.e. the direction was instrumental in the resulting work, then possibly yes. Think of reality TV. Unscripted, but produced, and absolutely copyrightable.
> the average person just sees it as another headline of the world today, and will move on, the way people still fly United.

Until people's lives are actually impacted by the lack of privacy, they'll continue doing what they always do. Once something requires action on the person's part, (either credit being stolen from them, or something along those lines) most people won't take preemptive actions. And this would need to happen on a massive scale for giant corporations to change their ways.
The difference is in composing the photo and choosing the triggering of the shot.

In the motion sensor scenario, the photographer frames the shot and defines the conditions under which a photograph will be taken.

In the monkey selfie, the photographer did not frame the shot, did not direct the camera, did not control conditions under which the photo would be taken (beyond the manufacturer's button). This there was not creative input by the photographer in the actual image captured.
>>but I'd point out that computerization should have added a large constant factor to labor productivity starting in the 90s, you'd expect wages to rise proportionally if that's the case (and for the jobs displaced to be replaced with high wage jobs too).

Computerisation provided a brief boost to labour productivity in the late the 1990s, but that quickly vanished. Labour productivity growth has been at/near century-long lows since the early 2000s, and from the early 1970s to mid 1990s.

I would dispute that we've seen an overall reduction in banking regulations. From what I've heard from those inside the financial industry, the costs of regulatory compliance have risen enormously. Less anecdotally, filing fees for initial public offerings have also increased significantly. All classic signs of rent-seeking.

And then there's KYC/AML/ATF regulations, that have seen enormous growth since the early 1970s, and especially since 911.

On top of all of this a new class of affirmative action type regulations and regulatory pressure that encourages banks to increase lending in particular neighbourhoods where disadvantaged groups are overrepresented has emerged over the last 40 years and steadily become more pervasive.

Beyond the financial sector, any broad measure of the scope of regulations shows that it has increased significantly since the 1970s, at rates far exceeding economic or population growth.

>It's not really possible to justify any deaths for construction in reasonable circumstances.

Numerous people die everyday from numerous causes. A more developed economy generally lowers the risk of death from many causes. So you can definitely justify voluntarily assumed risks in employment, that are associated with more workplace deaths, with a more rapid rate of construction specifically, and economic development generally.

But whether fewer regulations is desirable somewhat beside my point. My main point is that by no reasonable standard has the US become more 'neoliberal' (free market) economically.

>>The question is has a doubling of wages kept pace with the increase in wealth in those countries? I suspect 2x is far below the wealth that was produced.

Our primary concern should be increasing median wages and reducing poverty, not ensuring equally distributed gains. In any case, it's been pretty equally divided. One third of developing countries have seen income equality improve, one-third have seen it remain the same, and one third have seen it worsen.
cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15222517, per Ajedi32.
Why Libertarians Are (Still) Plotting to Take Over New Hampshire
Try copying and pasting the graphs anywhere else :)
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If its gamey it means you are wayyyy over cooking it! It literally goes off a cliff after medium rare so stick to that max :)
Sweden is close to becoming a cashless economy
Unless you can show $25,000 in damages, your lawsuit will go nowhere.
> People share exactly 50% of their genes with their parents and children, but only probably 50% of genes with siblings -- it could be 51%, or could be 48%.

I don't see why the percent shared could not be higher than 50% with your parents or children. You can share a gene with someone that you did not get it from or give it to. For example, suppose some particular gene has three variants, V1, V2, and V3. If your mother has V1/V2, and your father has V2/V3, the possible cases for you are V1/V2, V1/V3, V2/V2, and V2/V3.

In two of those cases you share 50% of that gene with each parent. In the other two cases you share 50% with one parent and 100% with the other parent.
No, he actually won at first, but the US agencies responsible for it agreed that PETAs arguments were true.

You can not own copyright of something you didn't created, when someone — be it a toddler or an animal — steals your camera and takes a photo, you do not own it.

Now the real question is if the animal owns the photo, or if no one does.

But US law allows unintuitively that animals can own things, and manage them. As lots of rich people had the idea to set a pet as their heir in their will, precedent was made for that.

So the only question is if the court would follow the precedent, or follow the agencies' opinion that the image is public domain.

Which led to the settlement, which argues that 25% of the image belongs to the management of the habitat where the ape lives, and the rest to the photographer.
I was just pondering that.
I consider my interlocutors smart enough to understand that it is an image and that evolution is an emergent behavior.
Regarding the concern surrounding fake Engineering degrees, the list of Canadian accredited degree granting institutions can be found here: https://engineerscanada.ca/accreditation/accredited-programs...

You can search for American programs by name/state/institution here: http://main.abet.org/aps/accreditedprogramsearch.aspx

Given how easy it is to verify this (without even getting into systems for verifying student/attendance/graduation records), I am skeptical that this is a real problem in the field of Engineering.
Export to USA :)
The simpler format is easier to generate, which can make the difference between having something and having nothing.

An example: our company uses redash for sharing ad hoc data sets internally. It'd be easy to generate a SQL expression with array_agg that could be wrapped in a span w/this font. I currently cruft up a call to a google charts replacement to do just that, which sucks because it adds a bunch of image requests.

I _could_ do it with SVG, too, but the expression to create it would be a lot more complex.

I can imagine submitting a PR to redash to autoformat any SQL column named "sparkline" with this font, actually.

(Valid criticism: maybe I should use a richer tool than redash for this...but I love it when a general tool can do a lot just because of composable primitives, AtF Spark fits the bill perfectly here.)
Typically it's patterns of repeated performance issues, such as providing estimates then routinely not completing work on time.

Or, failing to complete tasks they've taken on, requiring other teammembers to step up in order to meet deadlines.

There are more extreme cases, like insubordination, theft etc, but they are pretty rare.
Hmmm... As someone of sub-continental heritage, I have close friends from about 3 different ethnic groups. I have NO friends from my own cultural/regional heritage at all in 5 decades of walking this planet.
Sorry to go off topic, but isn't this a case where "reasonable" would be a better choice of word than "logical". There's nothing particularly logical about teaching a thing one way over another.
No. There are open source Android phones.

There are no open source ios phones
Also population of chickens and possibly cows are outnumbering us a lot, that is not a reason to eat them.
Lawsuit DDOS?
> MIT... science... There no way to do that effectively without considering as many points as possible.

Respectfully, exactly the opposite is the case. Ask any mathematician at a top university how many crackpot letters they have to throw out every year. Ask any biologist how much Real Work they would get done if they had a department half-full of young earth creationists.

Universities are bastions of free speech, but they are also inherently exclusionary. And places like MIT regularly let down that exclusionary guard to invite speech that explicitly interferes with the efficiency their institutional truth-finding mission. An admirable thing, IMO.

At universities, free speech serves a political purpose far more than it serves a scientific purpose.
This sounds great.

I am especially hopeful that it will cover what is normally considered an externality in economics and which I consider it's most fatal blind-spot: "technological progress"

Another book I really enjoyed was "The end of Alchemy" which took a very un-political view of the financial crisis.

We need more of these kind of books and perspectives.
To my knowledge you can't stop, per se. If you're savvy you can avoid seeking credit from any institution that pulls Equifax, by asking from what CRA(s) your report will be pulled and simply walking out if they tell you they pull Equifax. This doesn't guarantee that they won't report to Equifax, however, and it certainly doesn't guarantee that Equifax won't come up with the information by other means.

Unfortunately, also, it's safe to assume that Experian and TransUnion operate just as badly as Equifax, so attempting to live an Equifax-free existence probably isn't particularly useful. If Equifax does suffer for this leak, actually, it's a relatively safe bet that they will take security more seriously so as to better protect their interests.
The rules in small claims court are pretty lenient in my state. Many times the magistrate isn't even an attorney and doesn't have a firm grasp of the law.

And if Equifax doesn't show up, you'll get a default judgment against them. Which doesn't mean you'll collect it but it would force Equifax to appeal to the court of common pleas.

I think this is more about killing Equifax through death from a thousand cuts. If 1% of the people impacted by this filed a small claims lawsuit, that's 1.43 million lawsuits against Equifax. What company could survive that?
I used to think of the world of Physics 101 as PhysicsLand. It is a horrible place. There is no air. There are a huge number of infinitely sharp, yet infinitely rigid objects lie in wait to slice you to bits; even cubes can't be trusted with their infinitely sharp edges. Feathers and bowling balls are constantly falling on you from above, and there's no terminal velocity to slow them down. You can't even stand up to escape, unless you've been there long enough that friction has finally gotten installed. But beware, because shortly after that, the infinitely sharp, infinitely rigid things start whirling around.

It's a horrible place... and as far as most people make it in physics. Econ 101 may only be able to teach very simple models before most people also wander away to learn something else, but they are still useful models, and I still think people come away from discussions of how irrational humans are and how simplified economic models are and all these other things and think that the basics of Supply and Demand have therefore been disproved and I can go off and socially engineer without having to worry about them... but they haven't. The edges of the Law of Supply and Demand may fractal off into ever-more complicated corner cases as you approach their edges, most of which happen in the real world, but the core idea is still valid and you're still naked in the face of the real world's complexity if you think they aren't relevant, just as, for all the immense simplification, Physics 101 is still relevant to the real world even if it's the only physics you ever take.
How does this play with accessibility? Sounds like a good idea, but is the HTML markup semantically understandable to a low vision user?
It's official. I will never work for Facebook. In terms of hipness (lack of it), positive impact (lack of it), and sliminess, this puts them on the same shelf as Comcast for me. It also frames their ruinous impact on societal discourse as "hostile" rather than just a "a naive and clumsy mistake".

For Facebook employees: Is this really the company you want to work for? Is this the impact you want to have on the world? Is this really the best place in society to apply your talents?
I disagree with any conclusions drawn that censorship has solved any kind of problem here.

Let's take the fat people hate subreddit. Okay, you ban every user and the subreddit itself. Some people make new accounts, and a new subreddit about hating fat people, so you ban all those too.

Did that convince anyone that their opinions were wrong?
Absolutely not. If anything, convinced them, in their eyes, that they were onto something and had to be silenced.

All it's done is driven people with those bigoted opinions away from Reddit. These people still exist (until we start exterminating them I guess) and will continue to speak their bigotry wherever it is they do end up. All that's really accomplished is just cleaning the website of speech you don't want anyone to see. Kind of like sweeping dust under a rug - still there, can't see it though. Out of sight, out of mind.

Someone else's pest-problem.
I don't like that argument. In Feist, the Supreme Court said that creativity is what matters, not how much work was involved. And it doesn't have to be much creativity at that.
That's a great idea! Does anyone know if this technique works with iOS 10? The linked blogpost is for iOS 7 and 8
It is really a problem, I'm out of space on my phone due to bloat and it prevents my installing new apps. Sometimes just to update I have to get rid of apps. If you make money off apps then this should concern you.

The next causality is going to be the local sports league, there app has bloated to use 130MB just to show news, ladders and videos. After I uninstall it I'll be much less engaged with the product they are trying to sell me, all because a bloated binary.
Equifax Blames Open-Source Software for Its Record-Breaking Security Breach
We run a Spark cluster for distributed processing.

Spark is awesome - makes it dead easy to parallelize work.

But it's also easy to write bad Spark code that doesn't parallelize well.

So I wrote a report to let us view key stats broken out by Spark job, including a sparkline of avg load on the machines running the job for its duration.

This provides an easy way to see whether a job uses the cluster efficiently, and if it doesn't, where the key points in the job are that it's sitting idle.

It also lets us eyeball the repeatability -- if a given batch job's sparklines are wildly varying from run to run, it usually suggests that something funky is going on in the code.

Also, it lets us have "Spark" lines. Worth it for the pun alone, IMO.
> Since then, the world has provided a few case studies on the matter.

I just want to point that the world has provided a lot more case studies on the matters of Karl Marx economical bibliography.
There are a lot of reasons to choose Safari over Firefox, which I use most of the time. The visualization for swiping backwards is a little better, syncing tabs or handoff to an iPad or iPhone seems a little smoother than the Firefox version, the rendering may be a little faster, and I like the show all tabs button a lot.

However, my favorites/bookmarks bar is a row of favicons. I feel like The first Macs and Apple IIc did a great job labeling hardware ports with good icons. You could quickly understand what they meant, and worked better than words for the labels. I don't understand why Apple has decided that favicons are such an abomination that using them for tiny buttons in the favorites bar isn't even an option hidden somewhere in a plist.

Really, I just miss having favicons enough, that the advantages of Safari aren't enough to get me using it instead of Firefox.
Found out that it is not as hard to find in USA

https://www.gepperths.com/
Welcome to the group. I deleted the fb app and was never happier.
There's a really simple gimmick I use to get myself to do work. Set timer on phone for 20 or 30 minutes. Until the timer goes off, I won't intentionally engage in any distractions, just my project. When the time is up, I'm free to go do something else if I want. Sometimes I will stop working. Many times I will have got engaged by whatever I was doing and will keep going for a few more hours.

Even if I stop, 20 minutes of undistracted work is actually pretty significant, so it's win/win
Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions?
Historical text here

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS
> build more power plants to support charging cars...

The bigger and engine is, the more efficient it typically is. Electric cars are already more clean even when you factor in the filthiest of power plants.
There's the iTunes hack, the SSL bug.

Apples security record is not better than say, Adobe
Cowboy mode sounds horrible to me (no offense). What did you enjoy about it?
Note that the title is a little click-baity. Specifically, this article is about what is wrong with POSIX I/O in high-performance, exascale computing. This article is about how the POSIX I/O model breaks down in a pretty extreme use case, not that it's fundamentally broken.
Ha, I dig the name `spark`. I did a tangentially related project years ago — also called spark — that did simple sparklines in shell: https://github.com/holman/spark

Just as a warning, though; over the years I’ve gotten 3-4 requests by media companies to write a book on Apache Spark, so, um, watch out for that one. (Regardless of whether you know Apache Spark or not, you should go for it. I believe in you.)
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California bans all sorts of things. Foie gras, wood stoves, apples from some other states in the union, reference to a nationally recognizable sports team, allowing animals to have sex within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship[0], driving in a housecoat (but only if you're a woman)[citation needed], and the eating of any frog which dies in a frog race (really).
Corporate Income Tax Rates Around the World
I want this in my linters. Why take a chance?
Apple appears to relax ban on apps fetching, running extra code
I fully expect that the high end phone will start at $1000 but why is NYTimes publishing this story as if it news? Apple hasn't published the prices of the phone and for now, the whole article is based on speculation.
But not the composition of the picture, the timing of the shot, or what was in the shot.

The picture did not capture creative expression of the photographer.
I recommend Choice[1] by Robert Murphy as a way to learn basic economics. The book is a distillation of Human Action by Mises and derives economic theory from the axiom of action.

[1] http://www.independent.org/publications/books/summary.asp?id...
It would be interesting to see traffic signs created this way. Readable both by humans and by machines from far away.
I wasn't suggesting legislating the conditions out of existence. I was thinking that kind of situation could be considered in the regulation. Much like VFR flight conditions a self-driving car would not operate in heavy rain/wind or low temperatures.
Stumbled upon this last week and it's a great little intro.
Portable panels will only be used a tiny fraction of the time that a dedicated roof install will be.
Yelp Claims Google Broke Promise Made to Regulators
Reddit's founders have stated otherwise, though they've also been less than consistent on the point of free speech.

Private / commercial actors do have accountability, though it can be difficult to trace.

I'm neither arguing against limitations on public discussion, or defending private fora as equivalent to public spaces (I disagree with both views). But I'm noting that in a strict interpretation of your comments, neither statement is true.
I have done a ton of successful side projects, one of them even turned into a great and growing business for me.

As a former musician the concept of jamming seemed like a great way to think about side projects.

In other words in my experience the best you can do is not even think about your side projects as projects (as the require process) but rather as jam-sessions.

Hopefully you have hundreds of little ideas to explore not just one (if you have that one big idea you should probably turn it into a real business, quick your job and maybe get funding)

The worst thing you can do is to worry about process (buy domain name, spend time on logo etc)
"x commented on {totally unrelated y}'s status" ... 6 days ago -_-