skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wages will never be high. Thats just the nature of the job. But unions can fight for things like working conditions for TAs and helping students deal with abusive advisers. Students are strongly incentive not to bring complaints against professors since they hold all the power over potential career advancement. Unions could help here too.

Really more than students unionizing its adjunct faculty that are being severely exploited. Whereas PhDs at least get a degree for their troubles, adjuncts just get straight up robbed, and too many of them are living on public assistance and non-guaranteed contracts.
One team's signal is another team's noise?
Are employers not people?
It keeps on puzzling me why don't engineers ever speak up. Like "Hey, man, I understand the old design sucks and you want to make it better, but editing things directly would only make the delays bigger. How about you take a few screenshots of the product, photoshop it the way you would like it to look and then we, as a technical team, will use our best expertise to make it look this way without breaking everything in pieces?".

That could have saved you from weeks of hell and would also increase your influence by a great amount.
Not to be "that nerd" but it wasn't an accident. The writers actually performed a fairly elegant retconning to explain the difference in appearance between the Klingons as they appeared in multiple series.
Top tier usesally doesn’t have terminal MS. MS means you didn’t cut it or you want out. In either case they pay you.
Consul's documentation has a comparison at https://www.consul.io/intro/vs/eureka.html.
I was under the impression it was the Province buying into the C Series Jet. They own a % of the Jet just like Airbus now owns a %. You know the way the US Government bought GM Shares and AIG, etc. An investment not a bailout.
Wait. So, a high school student interned at Nvidia?
Isn't it mainly TAs who want unionization? At least in the physical sciences, RAs are indeed paid with grant money.
I think the origin point would have been better expressed with that nuance: if you have the budget, staff (design, dev, QA), and need to customize everything, rolling your own is probably best.

Frameworks are for the 99% of projects where not all of those are true. I’ve had good results limiting gratuitous changes that way: “do we want to pay to change this and test all of our supported browsers/accessibility/RTL?” is a lot better than “No”.
Not always subsidy by itself, but DoD and NASA are used to subsidy Boeing and others. DOD and NASA transfer economic resources to the industry on terms more favorable than available on the market.
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Will a screenshot suffice? I don't know whether he scrubbed his blog or just managed to get it deindexed (it's apparently been hacked at least twice in the past few weeks and he's not sure how, only that it's getting re-hacked after he installs new strong passwords) and there's a limit to how much work I'll put into securing an apology, but if you'll take my word for the authenticity of a screenshot I captured and posted myself --- and you should --- then here you go:

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/816449724127608833

Also, and with the maximum sincerity it is possible to imbue an HN comment with, from the bottom of my heart? Fuck that guy.
Well dang, there's a new favourite
Because they care about their students, but can't pay them any more than the university allows.
I am not a DBA, obviously. I did have to work as one, but that was a lot of years ago. So, pardon me if this is a dumb question.

You say you're stuck with it. Can't you just change a few things, shut down for a little while, export your data, and insert it into a new DB? I know it is hard to do it with writes happening at the same time, but it seems like you could freeze it as read only, extract the data, and put it into a DB that has been prepped ahead of time and tested.

I know we did this more than once BUT it wasn't with public facing data and we were able to migrate while still working on existing data. We just couldn't add more data while doing so.
I think you are overly cynical. To me it looks like many professors view their grad students more like a protege than a minion. As such while the greater system is perverse, and the professor looks out for themselves, many professors would still have their students interests in mind.
Who do you use instead of craigslist?
Under US law, the only way to gain recognition as the bargaining representative of a unit of employees—and the only way an employer is legally allowed to recognize you as the sole bargaining agent—is by demonstrating that you have the support of a majority of the bargaining unit, usually through a union certification election.

I don't think there's anything legally preventing a subset of employees from banding together and withholding work until just that subset gets what they want, if that's what you're asking. It's just not a terribly effective tactic, and obviously doesn't leave the benefits in place for future employees the way that a NLRB-sanctioned collective bargaining agreement does.
Tylenol/acetaminophen/APAP/paracetamol immediately came to mind for me as well. It's flat-out amazing to me that shit is still allowed on the market.

It hammers your liver really hard, especially in combination with alcohol. In fact, it's the foremost cause of acute liver failure in the entire western world.

The kicker: it doesn't even work very well. Other pain relievers are much more effective, and have a much higher margin of safety.
I think he was trying to explain why he immediately configured wake on lan, ssh and so on: had he encountered problems in the configuration, he could have returned the item to the store.
I wonder if some type of 360 camera on humvees could be trained to detect incoming fire and display the direction/location to soldiers on the ground?

I'm unsure if these types of systems exist, but after watching Restrepo it seems like figuring out where the enemy is located was half the battle. In a combat situation with incoming fire, having a CV system tracking incoming rounds and combatants might be useful.
I am so to hear this happened to you. I used to follow Robert Scoble's blog on Google Reader, Rackspace videos, Google Plus. There was one incident that made me very proud of him at that time. I think he did not blog for one entire week to support Kathy Sierra who was harassed online. From your article, I now know that he himself harassed you and other women. I feel so sad that I held this man in such high regard.

What I am trying hard to understand is human nature. How can a person protest online harassment and turn around and harass another person at a party? I think fame, alcohol and drugs change a person for the worse. Lot of things to ponder about in your article.
CSE recruits fairly heavily at student-focused CS events in Montreal. Never seen or heard a peep about CSIS.
This is mentioned in the "Marketing" part as one of the core research questions. I agree that it should be addressed more but didn't want to overload the article – it's long enough already.
I think you and your brother are onto a nice little business (at the very least).

I just sent your link to my wife who literally sends photo packages of our kid to her mother (who does not live independently and lives vicariously through the life of our kid).

I appreciate that you're not fully up-and-running just yet, but from the looks of it, a little operational scaling may be in your future :-)

Best of luck with the venture.
I saw that.
This is very impressive
I think WeWork is great. But I think commutes are a time suck. How about the new trend of Officeless (TM) companies, connecting entirely online, working asynchronously and taking breaks to go to the beach and socialize with friends instead of random people.

Your talent pool can suddenly come from all over the world, and costs cheaper while making employees happier.
> I define and judge "advanced" here not from a CS standpoint but rather from a real-world pragmatic standpoint

Which is completely subjective and also not what “advanced” is usually used in reference to when it comes to OSes. Perhaps you meant “intuitive”?

Either way it’s subjective so you could have just distilled both your posts (and points) to this:

“Personally, I don’t like it.”

That’s fine. You do you. No harm no foul. Would have saved everyone the essays & you typing them.

Related: you... overwrite. You’re incredible verbose for the amount of data you’re delivering. That can come across as patronizing or condescending. To use a $5 word: you bloviate.

I don’t say this to belittle; it’s merely feedback & trying to help. Tone can be hard in text.
That's a nice opinion. Be a shame if anything ever happened to it. I hope you have others that you can share.
People sometimes think of cooking as just memorizing methods and rescipies and the buying those things. But you quickly just 'know' what ingredients and favors are good together and can identify most of the ingredients in something you eat at a restaurant and have a decent idea how to prepare something similar.

I don't buy a bunch of portioned ingredients for a set of rescipies, just a lot of basic ingredients and some wild cards to keep it interesting. As long as you have a good set of spices, oils, and garnishes you can find some way to prepare your random leftover ingredients into something pretty good.

I remember just hanging out with my mom/dad/grandparents when I was a kid watching and helping them cook. I always thought that was pretty standard along with watching and learning about all kinds of other household tasks. Is that not the case anymore? It just seems like such a basic life skill.
Please, you have google, use it! Don't pollute this discussion with links to his site, or quotes of his words.

Maybe Iran dispatched a death squad to kill him, as revenge for the time that he threatened Bruce Peren's life. Wooooooooo!!! Be careful: you can laugh yourself to death reading his blog.

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/bruce-perens-dead

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/04/msg00623.html
I worked at LastPass for a while as one of the few engineers. People hated our UX, and we honestly didn't even get close to the UX that 1password offered while I was there (They are working on it now).

LastPass killed it because they had Enterprise grade features people wanted. I totally agree with you. It's about building a product for your customers
Slow? It's insanely fast on my 6 year old desktop and doesn't download "gigs" of docs every night...also, what kind of workplace monitors individuals net usage then gets upset at them for downloading "gigs" when their job is to program.
> a catalog, a simple journal, etc.

Would you please describe the data model you have in mind a bit more?
The doorbell for Serial Criminals who Sell Out to Federal Agents and/or Cartels. (...near you!) etc.

Speaking of planned obsolesence, it would be nice to be able to take a working 40yo. fixed camera and tell it it's a barcode reader and scheduled wildlife counter, or otherwise to take a power profile change, if not also distinct (llvm, CoolWave, Bluetooth 4.1 profile) promise or callback schema. Maybe tell the shakeweight that you're putting it in the closet in a manner than shaking is no excuse to dissipate more than 21mW. Certainly get (MSDS-ish # circumstance) links from devices that deal in goober or tree nut oils or PVC with flame retardant adjuvants, etc. maybe or maybe not explicitly asking things to McGuyver themselves into a bootstrap industry they don't belong to.
What you should know is that the only thing that matters is solving big problems for real people problems.

If you are solving real problems and you are constantly learning and improving based on your understand why your customers hire/fire you then nothing else will matter.

If you are really customer-value-centric then your UX/Visual design, PR, marketing, SEO won't matter since all of your customers will be telling more & more people why you are awesome and they'll keep paying you for more.
As defined by whom?
I think you might be surprised by how many people are surprised about this aspect of ESR.
Let's do some conservative costing here.
4 people, consume 10 cups (total) of coffee each day, 20 work days in a month. At $3 a cup, that's $600. Now I'm not even going to guesstimate the beer but let's just say the team consume $100 of beer in a month. That leaves $1.5k for rent. Find a better deal.
It is certainly possible that those adult dyslexics are better at handling their disorder. That would be a pretty strong point in support of the Sudbury Valley School. However that is not the point the school or you made. You both made a harder to believe claim that none of their students even had the disorder which strains credibility and makes me doubt the first point.
Agreed. It's about balancing the power dynamic, not the wages.
While I love option types, retrofitting them into languages which already have nulls has problems.

Ask me about using a Java library that could return an option type, which could be null, so you have to check for both the None return value AS WELL AS null.
It is far, far past the border of "offensive". If offensiveness was Canada, ESR's worldview would be somewhere up near Yellowknife.
Student athletes' biggest protection from retaliation is probably their incredible power over the institution and high level of visibility, as demonstrated by the actions of the Mizzou players during #concernedstudent1950.

Football players, at least in D1, have also been determined to at least have some of the rights to concerted action protected under the NLRA:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/02/nlrb-general-...

Of course, while that does protect them from their current employer (the school), I don't think it can protect them against the reluctance of a potential future employer (like the NFL).
What I want to teach, but can't
Let’s not forget Hell:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/8/16273378/uber-fbi-investig...
But that wasn't covered in the macro 101 class all this HN comment logic is based on!
I don't live in the US but classifieds are more user-friendly in other countries.

You can't launch Craiglist in 2017 though. I know that there are numerous exceptions from the 00s and even from the App Store 5-6 years ago. But it's not the same anymore because blue oceans are rare nowadays.
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Don't know if it's still the case but when I was at Microsoft in the late 90s this was common, and they were given real work.
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You are correct in that css frameworks become a burden but I disagree that building your own is “very easy”. A css framework that works well on most devices and most browsers for a non trivial app is quite a lot of work.
Gmail was a revolutionary UI by standards of the day. It was one of a handful of apps that ushered in Web 2.0 and AJAX. Facebook was rougher to be sure, but if you compare to the tire fire of MySpace you realize it was relatively quite good.
http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/openai-makes-humanity-less-sa...

Personally, I think making AI tech broadly available could be a bad idea if AI tech changes warfare so that offense works better than defense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10721621 (This is already true, but I think it's likely that further technological development will make it even more true.)
At the end of the day UX is the product, that’s what the customer sees. Maybe you could get away with it with early adopters.
A good UX team will help focusing on core features instead of useless ones and optimum experience.
For a startups, a good UX designer could validate a MVP in few days without a line of code.
2.30 a can? I bet they can get a better deal than that.
I'll always remember him as the guy who wore his Google Glass in the shower, posted a picture of it, and then got mad when it broke.
What a fantastic resource!
Wasn't the issue with n-back previously that the Jaeggi study was not replicable?
> This is where `Option` or `Optional` types shine. They force you to unwrap the nilable value at compile time, and are zero-cost abstractions.

They aren't zero-cost abstractions in most languages. Every unwrap() potentially results in a dynamic check, even if one isn't necessary. There are a number of ways you could extend a type system to track the potential cases of sum types, which would help alleviate this cost.
Flowlingo looks awesome. I like how the subtitles show/scroll below the video.
That's a fascinating concept, but I don't think all growth is of that sort (even if much of it is).

Facebook as one example has seen enormous growth. Was it bad for the planet? (apart from the incalculable cost of being an attack vector against the more easily manipulated members of society, leading to an anti-environmental administration).

Maybe not. Facebook users sit quietly, hunched over their phones, sipping small amounts of energy. Comparing them to someone who drives their 4WD for a hobby, they look good.
While I agree with your position on affirmative action and not your interlocutor's, there's more than enough direct evidence of white supremacy on Raymond's part to let us skirt this particular unproductive debate and focus on the more obviously objective stuff.

Actually, I'm not totally confident that ESR is really a racist. I think it's possible that he might just be profoundly, narcissistically insecure. The more you read him (I've read every ESR G+ post, every ESR blog post, and every ESR-authored comment on every ESR blog post for the past 2 years), the more you come to realize the truth that every kind of person that is not ESR is somehow intrinsically flawed, while ESR himself is one of the most important people on the planet, almost singlehandedly (if you don't count Dave Taht) responsible for the security of the Internet and of revolutionary movements in Iran, plugged directly into the most sensitive sources in law enforcement (wait 'till you read what he's learned about the Las Vegas shooter; it'll change forever what you thought you knew about ANTIFA, BLM, and Islam).

I think it might be tough to reckon with that kind of overwhelmingly disordered view of the world, and that white nationalism and mens-rights-ism and similar ideologies offer him a mental framework in which his weird belief of himself at the center of the world might just make sense.

I'd be sad, except, seriously? Fuck that guy. In the eye socket, forever.
> In this case, Bombardier’s response will serve only to consolidate further an already oligopolistic market

So basically like every other government intervention in markets in the name of helping the 'working class'...

A small group will get jobs and make more money in the short term in exchange for long term growth, competition, and innovation.

The biggest factor never fully considered in these protectionist policies and campaign trail rhetoric is always the fact these companies operate in a global marketplace. It's easy to shift operations or capital to foreign markets with more business friendly policies. So domestic restrictions rarely hurt the large companies, it only restricts local jobs and the smaller companies who can't afford to compete in this fashion.
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That’s exactly what i did lately. I replaced Bootstrap 3 with my own custom CSS after testing out Bootstrap 4.

With flexbox, media queries and SCSS i dont find any need for a CSS framework anymore. My codebase without Bootstrap (and JQuery) feels so light, flexible and maintainable nowadays.
Yeah, and, anecdotally, I found the Blue Apron recipes fussier than the kind of thing I'd usually make for a weeknight meal.
How do startups exist without customers paying them to solve a problem? From convincing investors that the problem exists? It sounds like the investors are the real customers and a narrative is the product they produce.
I never saw that before, but it's consistent with his past words and behavior.

Since duncan asked for citations:

Here's ESR having a tantrum and throwing down the gauntlet during Russ Nelson's "Blacks are lazy" scandal that embarassed OSI and rocked the open source community: he insisted OSI get into a mud-fight against political correctness, and he called people in the open source community who disagreed with Russ's "Blacks are lazy" blog posting "fools and thugs":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Russ_Nelson#Blacks_are_la...

Note that although Russell withdrew the article, and admitted it was badly written, Eric S. Raymond is on the record as having defended it by accusing people asking Russell to step down as being "fools and thugs". Note that "thug" has been called a "dog whistle" term for "n*gger".

https://aattp.org/thug-just-a-dog-whistle-for-n-word-says-nf...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/New-OSI-Presi...

Eric S. Raymond wrote: “The people who knew Russ as a Quaker, a pacifist and a gentleman, and no racist, but nevertheless pressured OSI to do the responsible thing and fire him in order to avoid political damage should be equally ashamed,” Raymond said. “Abetting somebody elses witch hunt is no less disgusting than starting your own.”

“Personally, I wanted to fight this on principle,” Raymond said. “Russ resigned the presidency rather than get OSI into that fight, and the board quite properly respected his wishes in the matter. That sacrifice makes me angrier at the fools and thugs who pulled him down.”

http://slashdot.org/~tomhudson/journal/98015
The thing is that model can be solved with a simple rescipe app that tells you what to buy and how to make it. A lot of grocery stores even have pickup.
sure, I've subleased a bunch. my experience with that is that two kinds of companies generally sublease: places that are growing and will eventually want the space you're occupying for themselves, or places that aren't doing well and will eventually fold. I've subleased from both :).

it's for sure a good option if you want a very short term thing, but it's a tough spot when you probably want > 1 year but 5 is a stretch.
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No, the CSeries is Bombardier muscling onto Boeing’s turf. The CS300 is a very direct competitor to the 737 MAX 7.