skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, that does not follow from the article's analysis.

Because the article is very clearly biased. Making it a legal requirement for tweets to be treated as though they are protected speech means that Twitter cannot shut people up (or else they have broken it as a platform for free speech).

> But then the council needs to find a different place to meet.

The difference here is that in the mall scenario, it is the mall that is shutting people up. In your argument, it's the government. As a better example, I would say you have a private establishment like a hotel where the meeting is happening. You have a conference room reserved and the public is welcome to come in to observe. If it is illegal for the council to eject a Nazi from the hotel for their views, then surely it is illegal for the hotel to do the same (otherwise, the hotel could say that Republicans are not allowed). In this case, the meeting would either have to be moved or the hotel would have to change their policy. So in this way, the hotel is threatened with the loss of business if they do not adhere to the policy of allowing all speech. The issue here, is that the EFF is asserting that if the President chooses to talk to someone in the hotel lobby (somewhere that anyone can listen, but not somewhere that is meant to be official government communications), then that has suddenly become protected.
That's only for newly purchased homes, so current jumbo mortgages can still deduct for up to $1M in principal.
Just another reason I hate Ivys
Passport has an RFID chip in it. State DL typically do not though.
Now that's an interesting question
Now that’s scalability.
I was able to graduate with an EE degree, within the past five years and with no debt at Cal Poly (a university with one of the highest ROI on the west coast). <$7000/year is certainly doable if you're living at home with your parents.
It's still a strict improvement on what we have at the moment, which is more akin to storing unhashed passwords with the government.
Why is this top response just a deflection?
It's not that people don't care, but that people have lots of things they could vote on and can't rationally make considered decisions on all of them. You can't 'make people care' unless you give them an incentive, and it's irrational to expect everybody to care about everything.
> A second or third hand account of his great-grandmother leaving her farm,

It's his great-grandmother and his family. I imagine he would know a thing or two about the culture, history and customs. Besides the particular story of the great-grandmother seems to just be a side story and background used to introduce the topic.

> protestant Slovaks had a particular penchant for sex with farm animals

Seems like that was misread. There were rumors of that happening because there was a cultural element encouraging having fewer children, so abstinence and various rituals around it became popular. I don't think reproductive and sex rituals are uncommon and strange. And we didn't invent strange sex stuff because internet is around. People were raunchy and sex obsessed before as well. I don't think that needs rigorous sources.

> both interviewer and interviewee were fitting anecdotes into a preconceived narrative.

It seems they still have more information and experience to draw from than an average HN'er here.

If you just want to say, "I personally dislike that culture or ritual or theory", that's a fine thing. I can say I dislike spaghetti and like hamburgers more as well. But if you're trying to convince others that the presented story is wrong, then either a personal account would work (you live there, heard the stories, experience them), or even better if you have decent sources. Your source didn't quite do it and it's silly to ask the author or others to go dig more sources to prove their case.
Only for new mortgages.
There’s also a massive grad student bubble; for each hundred grad students who earn a Ph.D. that only qualifies them to become a professor, there’s maybe one tenure track professorship. This directly leads to exploitative situations—for example, the surplus of people with postgraduate degrees allows universities to hire adjuncts to teach undergrads at subsistence wages or worse. If you’re not going to establish lots of new national laboratories to soak up that excess talent, the least you can do is stop producing that surplus.
I would bet that he was indeed serious about the call for impeachment. If anything, it represents the current state of the public's awareness of appropriateness in politics.
"Judges in the city are paid $100 per election they preside over" For a days work, that's not much for a one off job even by central European standards. It seems to me, that the pay should be increased.
Yes, but once a week face-to-face is enough. It definitely doesn't need to be everyday.
What is iterator.return()? That seems non-standard?
That's not responsive to the question that was asked. Yes, America is unique in having so many public offices filled by election.
My recommendation is to do both in your career. Working at a big company can teach you how to work with a lot of stakeholders, big teams, management and often working with mature stuff. It comes often at the price of bureaucracy and a "can't do" attitude. You may also feel underchallenged. In a small company you learn how do things in a more direct way and often have more flexibility.

Both are good things to experience.
Disruption Tolerant Networking by NASA
I do absolutely believe that injustice exists. I've seen women with extensive academic and job backgrounds be treated like amateurs by guys. That is absolutely real and needs to be combated.

But don't mix those things up when it comes to the bootcamp issue. I would rather state it the other way around. Women can complete and do deserve to get a full education. We do not need to funnel them through rushed education systems, or be afraid to evaluate candidates candidly. It is not productive to keep bad and often expensive programs alive that market themselves to people looking for a career jump.
It's too bad this got flagged. I think it could have good discussions.

My problem with bootcamps is that is not how the human brain works. No one can absorb 12 hours a day of information for 12 weeks. Things get lost.

We need experience and repetition. We need to shoot ourselves in the foot by accident a few times. You don't get that in a 12 weeks.

Which is fine. I've hired plenty of people with no college but years of real world experience. I've even hired someone straight out of high school before.

The difference is when you act like the 12 weeks has taught you everything you need to know.

"wisdom is knowing you know nothing"

I've been doing this 20 years and have a computer science degree and I still marvel at what I don't know.

With that said, the company that made that job post sounds like a terrible place to work. I'd probably rather work with the bootcamp grad than whoever wrote that job listing.

Although one point... and this is right up in there with things you didn't learn in bootcamp...

It's ok to write a O(n^2) loop if n is a small number. Only optimize your algorithms if it actually has performance impact. Don't optimize just for the sake of "exponential complexity is bad." Premature optimization is a terrible thing.
Minimum wage increases make it uneconomic for employers to hire workers whose labor produces little value — mainly youths and people without advanced education. So they get stuck in the permanently unemployed underclass, always reliant on welfare or working under the table for cash. A better solution would be to eliminate the minimum wage entirely and make up the difference through income redistribution with something like a negative income tax for the lower brackets.
I missed the previous HN discussion of FAUST, but your comment led me to dig it up; it's good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13012880

Has some good links to relevant textbooks and MOOCs on the topic.
If Bill Gates walks into a bar the average person in the bar is now a billionaire (assuming about a moderately sized bar with 50 people in it).
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I would posit the alternative theory that perhaps things are going well enough that people don’t have to care and thus they don’t. Government is one of those things most people ignore unless it’s broken and usually pretty badly at that.
The problems you mention are real and worrying to those that understand them but are still pretty far removed from ordinary people’s lives. Perhaps this is the kind of thing that happens when systems work so well we forget they are there. Then stuff breaks down and people start caring again.
Because it captures more stuff at once? Why would you think anyone would need to deceive about the curvature of earth, that seems pretty well established?
You are mixing the two arguments being made, i.e. the right to be heard and the right to hear. Your argument is in favor of the right to hear what Trump says, but the point where it becomes a "free speech zone" is when it is about whether you're allowed to speak. To try and make blocking people on Twitter illegal for a politician means that they cannot censor those people _on Twitter_. There is no analogue for this in a 1-way communication system like TV.
Back in the paper days. I moved into a new office only to discover a dozen or so boxes crammed full of people's personal files. Mortgage applications and taxes. It took a couple of weeks to track down the parent company buy all sorts of damage could have been done had I been anyone else.
Excellent, Django team made a really great job.
> It used to be you had to stay together no matter what. It is not that people inthe past would miraculously solve marital problems - they often just had to stay despite violence, abuse or simply sever partners disregard.

True story. My grandparents were separated for the final 30 years of their lives, after all their children left the house. But they never divorced.
I was just fixing this problem for my dad about an hour ago. He called me asking what was wrong. A resetting of settings was able to fix it as well without messing with any data or apps.
Charlottesville: Faulty planning, passive police led to disaster at Aug.12 rally
Ideology (Gary Bernhardt)
Stanford does not have the money - you see they are busy creating a new form of non-scholarships that allow special people who would donate in future to go to school at much lower rate for education
A male pelvis is more narrow than a female pelvis.
Markets don't optimize for ethical practices, but for convenience and price - driving down wages and driving up profits.

Consumers don't care how bad Amazon employees have it, if that degree of ruthless exploitation is what it takes to deliver an Echo anywhere in the world in two days.
It is my opinion that Cringeley is a fraud. He did a kickstarter and completely failed to deliver.

Separately if you live your life in service to a bohemeth, learning nonreproducible skills in maneuvering their bureaucracy you are likely to have a miserable pointless career.

There’s so much more actual learning and effective transferable skill and power in working to achieve things versus serving an internal bureaucracy that rent seeks.

I’m reminded of the John Boyd line: “Do you want to be somebody, or do something?” Winning the respect of your incestuous peers is hollow outside in the real
World if you don’t actually deliver real effective results. But so many of these B-Ark people do so well at big companies with minimal actual
Skills other than sucking up and dodging blame.
It's down now... :(
Teaching someone with a physics background to code while on the job is doable if you are willing to throw the code out. Programming is as much of a learned skill as any skill and expecting someone with no programming experience to quickly catch up to someone who has been studying and actually coding for a few years is not realistic.
I'm sure they test some, & you might well be right, but to me, from the outside, it mostly seems like a failure to test thoroughly that's their main problem.

E.g., the root-login-bug slipping back in is inexcusable. That bug should've entered in a "make sure this doesn't" regress list and be tested every release. Yet, it wasn't.
Yup. They eventually decided they might go to 3.10 after 3.9.

From the article above:

> Update: After this post was originally written back in 2014, subsequent discussions on the core python-dev mailing list led to the conclusion that the release after 3.9 will probably just be 3.10. However, a 4.0 will presumably still happen some day, and the premise of this article is expected to hold for that release: it will be held to the same backwards compatibility obligations as a Python 3.X to 3.X+1 update.
Did it twice! Lost data too. Apples software quality has taken a very noticeable dive the last year or two. Being an iOS developer used to be very comfortable. It’s now become a real pain in many ways. Xcode being the worst.
Were electronic voting machines used here?

In past elections, whenever the issue of extremely hackable and vulnerable electronic voting machines was brought up, objections were raised that their use was too limited to make a big enough difference in the election. Well, here that's clearly not the case: the difference was so slight that such fraud could have tipped the scales.
> Trump has not stopped messages from being tweeted, just from those tweets reaching him.

Incorrect. You are describing what would happen if he "muted" the accounts. He didn't do that; he "blocked" them. That has much broader effects such as preventing them from following his messages or publicly replying to his messages. He has created a public forum with his tweets and then allowed some people to participate in that forum and disallowed some people from participating solely based on their viewpoints. That is textbook censorship.

> By setting a precedent that Twitter, as a private organization, can be the provider of a public space for free speech, does that not force them to keep everyone's views on the platform?

No. Twitter is not forced to do anything. Trump is forced to choose a communications platform that is compatible with his First Amendment obligations. If Twitter does not allow him to meet those obligations he must choose a different communications platform. He cannot avoid the First Amendment simply by conducting his communications through a third party.
> Specifically on climate change, if the left had been willing to focus on actually solving the problem we probably could have had a revenue-neutral carbon tax by now.

What the hell? Having a revenue-neutral carbon tax (or cap-and-trade) has been the environmentalist left’s primary goal this whole time. But the economic right is bankrolled by fossil fuel interests (e.g. the Koch brothers) so that is a non-starter.

If you were going to criticize the left for rejecting basic science, the whole “nature vs. nurture” controversy would be a much better example. The notion that little boys and girls are exactly the same before we socialize them with gender roles is a political dogma that doesn’t hold up against the science.
not really. Did you ever tried to use SQLAlchemy with Django? Good luck with that.
What PhD program allows students who aren't working for the university as a teaching or research assistant and doesn't charge them tuition?
> Making it a legal requirement for tweets to be treated as though they are protected speech means that Twitter cannot shut people up

This claim is prime facie absurd, since the lawsuit doesn't mention Twitter as a defendant, it's unthinkable to imagine that the result of THIS lawsuit would be an injunction against Twitter.

So unless you have a very compelling legal argument...

> The difference here is that in the mall scenario, it is the mall that is shutting people up. In your argument, it's the government

Right, exactly! In the case at hand, my point is even stronger. It's not just the mall security kicking people out, it's the city council asking the mall security to kick people out for expressing certain opinions. That's an even more obvious restriction on speech...

> If it is illegal for the council to eject a Nazi from the hotel for their views, then surely it is illegal for the hotel to do the same (otherwise, the hotel could say that Republicans are not allowed).

Wrong. It IS legal for the hotel to do the same! But it might not be legal for the city council to host their meeting in that hotel.

> In this case, the meeting would either have to be moved or the hotel would have to change their policy.

Yes.

> So in this way, the hotel is threatened with the loss of business if they do not adhere to the policy of allowing all speech.

And? Does the hotel have some sort of divine right to derive revenue from hosting city council meetings...? What if two different hotels want to make two different restrictions on speech?

More to the point, this provides a patently obvious and absolutely unacceptable back-door for censoring public meetings -- city councils can just insist on leases that restrict criticism of policy xyz or persons abc.
Not one word of apology from Apple! The workaround involves turning off notifications individually for every app, and then turning them on after the update. If this were any other manufacturer, they would be burnt at the stake. But we somehow let Apple get away with it.
So your interactions with the other people in your life (which could be affected by breaches of privacy) are all going to be governed by public key cryptography? Look I like strong crypto but this is getting ridiculous.
> Most families could afford one more child if they wanted to.

The counter argument was made in Elizabeth Warrens book The Two Income Trap where her research showed that the single income family of the 1970’s had more disposable income than the two income family of the 90’s after adjusting for housing, healthcare, transportation and childcare and showed that the majority of those expenses were primarily driven by children.

A household with children has less ability to make trade offs in the big four than a household without children. For example affordable schools and childcare may dictate more expensive or more distant housing.

The result is that children have a disproportionate impact to discretionary income beyond immediate needs for food, shelter and clothing. If you consider children as just another discretionary way of spending income people in many cases will make the rational choice to spend less on children if the cost is vastly increased.

In other words if the choice is between a minivan and instant coffee and a Mercedes and Starbucks many women may rationally choose the later.

If children were like any other discretionary purchase this wouldn’t be a problem but children are also a societal asset (or liability). Current public policy in many countries has shifted to privatizes more of the costs while socializing the benefits.

For example Social Security benefits is a pay—as-you-go program but there are no adjustments to benefits based on the economic value of the children that a household contributed to the current generation that is paying it. If the costs of raising those children were fully socialized it wouldn’t be an issue but otherwise it is a transfer of income from those who raised children to those who did not.
Exactly my experience after working several years for many big corporations and startups. I would add that might expect much worst work-life balance as a foreign developer working for an american startup.
> I would bet that he was indeed serious about the call for impeachment. If anything, it represents the current state of the public's awareness of appropriateness in politics.

Would you also bet he's serious about Taco Tuesday? Because you have exactly as much evidence for one as the other.

Although I do take your comment and apparent inability to extend the benefit of a doubt as fairly negative indicator of the public's ability to work through the current political divide productively. :/
that seems as illegal as telling your employees that they can't share salaries
You don't think traffic congestion is a problem in the bay area?
S3 is expensive not just because it's "cloud", but because it keeps multiplies copies in monitored drives, whereas your single drive is a ticking time bomb.

I have a couple of drives in RAID 1 (mirror), yet I still don't rely on it exclusively for really important data.
> Avonics software

It's not the software that killed people it's the spec.
Actually, no. This reveals the extent to which the US financial industry operates with similar quasi-aristocratic political dynamics - especially covert privilege based on perceived conformity and career potential - as the old Soviet Communist Party.
Typical salary for a senior dev in Berlin is 65k. That's about 73k fully loaded cost for the employer, IIRC. Nowhere near these numbers (which apparently are still way too low for senior devs in SV).
Haven't anyone noted that the guy was made homeless by divorce?
Thank you for putting this together. Very insightful.
Except most startups start at the latter and strive to become the former. So you advocate avoiding any pre-profitability company?
And they got that work experience originally due to internships... which they only got due to elite networking or pedigree
Regarding your comment that this is "targeted or a clear expression of priorities":

I agree, and I would add that these tax deductions were also targeted when they were implemented. Both parties favor their constituents in a way that probably isn't healthy for the unity of the nation.
If you don't think earning a PhD substantially improves your material existence, I'd beg to differ. There are plenty of folks who don't have PhD's who would be better positioned in the job market if they had the talent and opportunity to earn one. For every student lucky enough to earn a spot doing research there are plenty that don't have the opportunity and have to go out into the real world and earn a living.

I meet plenty of PhD's in my regular practice. Not every person earns a PhD and stays in academia. PLENTY earn that degree and use it as a stepping stone to a high-paying job in the private sector.

As for oil executives: they're not going to be the biggest winners here. Shareholders likely will be. That repatriated capital is going to lead to a huge share buyback and dividends. Wanna know who's going to get a large chunk of that? PENSION FUNDS for state employees. If you think CALPERS doesn't stand to benefit from this surging stock market you're not paying attention.

I wonder if you realize how much you sound like a lobbyist? Without a tax subsidy, there is a calamity. Every time someone warns that a tax increase will affect investment or job creation or cause a shift in the deployment of capital, people in favor of said increase downplay those fears.

All the folks who said that a $15 minimum wage would kill job creation....were those folks wrong?

And here we are, hearing that the removal of a special tax treatment will massively impact graduate education. Well, maybe. Maybe not. I guess we will have to see.

So the cost to a student to receive a PhD goes up a bit. Big deal. Is that gonna kill research entirely? There is already a glut of PhDs here in the USA. Maybe a few less isn't such a bad thing.
Or they can host their own sites...
Ha ha - that got me down a rabbit hole!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/06/02/a-...
C-sections are already a thing.
Agreed with most of what you said, especially that this would be a good discussion. My problem with filtering based on bootcamp training is that you occasionally find someone who has been programming their whole life (as a kid) an d finally decided to get a certificate. If there is one thing I've learned about interviewing, it's to not limit your options. Instead, talk to people for a few minutes on the phone and ask your own questions instead of looking at what someone put on a piece of paper about themselves. If you don't have time for that, outsource it to a recruiting firm who will also be good at finding diamonds in the rough.