skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that the first group is lumped into the second one.

Why wouldn't they be? The "crazy" ones aren't being elected by no one. They rose to power because voters embraced them. If you don't want to be lumped in as crazy then quit supporting crazy.

> potentially causing them to actually embrace the more extremist ideologies.

I really, really hate this argument. It's just trying to absolve people of their responsibility for choosing white nationalism and other reprehensible ideas. If you joined up because some arrogant jerk offended you one day then maybe you weren't a very good person to begin with.

Besides, how many liberals do you see pushing hateful ideologies and communism because they are sick of being called arrogant elites?
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I found Alfred’s answers insightful and elegantly stated.
Kibana's an open source project, so if you're looking to volunteer, you can contribute directly to it without having to jump through hoops, do interviews, etc. We follow the same process that our open source contributors do, so read through the contributing guide, take a look at the issues, and dive in!
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Sure, but discussing any of those wouldn't get you fired out of any reasonable job -- at most it might make your coworkers think less of you, but I don't really see why holding an opinion _should_ protect you from the social (i.e. not job security) consequences of holding it.

However, saying that the idea of sanctuary cities has been taken too far "because immigrants are rapists", as a random example, _should_ perhaps get you fired, especially since it's likely that some of your colleagues are in fact immigrants and saying something like that is a direct insult to them.

I think the state of politics in the US today is such that many (though certainly not all, as you've outlined) "conservative" ideas have strong ties to xenophobia and racism, whereas "liberal" ideas can be more freely discussed because they are about inclusion, rather than exclusion. And that's the way it _should_ be. Saying "I support giving more rights to group X" is not in general harmful to other groups, and is not the moral equivalent of saying "I support taking away rights from group X", which is actively harmful to group X.
Blendle is somewhat similar to what you're talking about, though it's pay per article as opposed to per day.

https://blendle.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle
upvoted for referencing linehan-- she is an excellent example of a relentless scientist / clinical practitioner who has absolutely revolutionized her entire specialty and likely saved many thousands of lives (BPD drives people to suicide very regularly) as a result.

in short, we need more like her.
The big difference between the two is that despite having spent billions of dollars Uber has not been able to build any customer loyalty. If they raise prices by a dollar everyone will switch to Lyft or one of the other dozen competitors in an instant.

Amazon spent all of its profits over many years improving website infrastructure, logistics, warehousing, shipping, customer support and generally making life easier for its users. Uber did almost none of that, opting to focus on freebies and advertising.
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That God created this universe.
That marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
That the right to own and carry a gun is guaranteed by the 2nd amendment.

These and other fundamental Christian world views are very 'unwelcome' in IT on both coasts of the US.
Try the Wayback Machine at archive.org
Australia Powers Up the World’s Biggest Battery – Courtesy of Elon Musk
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1) Huge screw up by Techcrunch for not catching this. Do they even produce quality journalism anymore?

2) Why is 500 Startups interviewing for the next accelerator period when they can't fund the previous one?
If people get one thing and only one from this thread, it should be this: the vast majority of popular work on BPD (e.g., Stop Walking on Eggshells, mentioned below, and "I hate you, don't leave me", etc.) is based on research that is decades out of date and substantially obsolete. If you want to learn about BPD, start with the research on Dialectical Behavior Therapy [0] and grow from there.

Before you write off BPD people or assume you know how this disorder works or what the prognosis is, take the time to read up on more recent work in this field. BPD is one of the least-understood diagnoses in the DSM, and most people who write about it appear completely unaware of the last ~30 years of research on this disorder.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy
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> upper management ... also cover some support shifts

So true.
Libraries are not run with "Access to Information" as their main goal. They're run with service to patrons as their main goal. If you think I'm making a distinction without a difference, how many libraries have subscriptions to Playboy?
My aesthetics seem to match yours. I do like the look of the latest Volt update - much better design direction then the new Prius.
An engineering degree won't teach you how to do things, either. I have one. Grads aren't able to build bridges, silicon chips, airplanes, or whatever else engineers are supposed to do. (Ok, I built a radio in my first term. But it was a very simple one.) They just have some intellectual tools that are useful precursors to gaining such knowledge.

You can liken CS to something like Chemistry. Is Chemistry about test tubes and HPLC devices? No. Will you learn how test tubes work when you do a chemistry degree? Probably.

It just happens that the practical skill practiced by CS majors is coding. And coding has this unusually large applicability that wet lab work doesn't. Does that mean CS is about coding? No. But you'll probably learn more about coding doing CS than most other things.
I do this too! Not everyday, because some days are meetings or the problems I am up against are not challenging. So I guess I only do it for challenges or things I want to remember.

Anyways, highly recommend this, it is my rubber duck debugging method of choice!
that's almost just under one bitcoin...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-energy-consumpti... says miners use 29.05TWh annually, so [29.05TWh / (365 * 24)h] = 3.3GW
All I'm saying is that a position, which until the day before yesterday was so mainstream that even a fairly liberal politician in a liberal party agreed with it, is today considered so out of bounds that you may face consequences for publicly stating it.
I guess that kernel modules are not commonly used for RE because in general there are better tools that support emulation, symbolic execution, dynamic instrumentation and so on (such as qira, vtrace, angr, Intel Pin and more, there are many articles about them).
I just wanted something simple and portable to extract/modify registers/memory pointed to by registers/unwind stack when a given instruction was executed, while being as fast and transparent as possible, so I wrote a kernel module... and while it worked(hook mmap via kprobes to get base address + register_user_hw_breakpoints + printk to get output), using it was alot of manual work, and I'm sure tools I listed above could be more efficient. Also since there was no emulation, I had to spoof opening /dev/
urandom, which you don't have to do if you're using qira

It'D be great if My small module Could be published As is, but I'd need to strip all addresses/filenames, and also add more proper locking (but yes, I want to publish it anyway).
y my calculations robo taxis are 2x-4x cheaper than human driven taxis

Care to share these calculations?
It would be interesting to determine how many people in the world have access to a library, how many people have internet access, and how much overlap there is between the two groups.
I don't think they'd hold them in contempt. I think the encrypted messages being deleted is about adverse inference - where it can be assumed that the destroyed evidence negatively affects Uber.

Also, if anyone is interested in reading about it, I found this enjoyable article [1] about the topic.

[1]: http://fordhamlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/pdfs/V...
As an English speaker who learned basic Korean as my second language I am surprised to see it ranked as hard as Japanese and Chinese. There are only a handful of phonemes that are difficult (largely because they split the difference between g/k and l/r) and the language is highly regular and the alphabet is simple. Chinese seemed near impossible with the tonal nature as well as needing to memorize a large number of chinese symbols.
After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters
>Companies find it incredibly hard to reliably staff positions with hard-working generalists who operate autonomously and have high risk tolerances. This is not the modal employee, including at places which are justifiably proud of the skill/diligence/etc of their employees.

I'm not sure if he's saying these hard-working generalists are hard to find, or undesirable to employ?
Forgot I just had this argument a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15502022
> We need conservatism

I disagree at this point honestly.

course all I've ever seen of american conservatism is the current republican party.
My first boss once told me that when he looks at hiring, having a CS degree means that you know how to find solution to problems. Being able to code can be learned on the job if needed. Most junior jobs in bigcos are usually code monkey type of work anyway.
I've heard doctors speak of themselves as having a trade skill... albeit one that pays well.
> Is it okay to make end users addicted to your services?

How much of a moat does uber really have? It seems to be only made of money - there is nothing inherent in their product that makes it sticky, only "is this the cheapest ride right now?".
Anosognosia.
I didn't reset either, but it gave me the same prompt described in the article as an iOS-11-exclusive flow.

Perhaps the behavior of a completed reset differs; I'm not about to mess with it just for kicks. But the fact that everything up to that point is identical makes me doubt that somewhat.
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Ironically, an engineering degree is also like a math degree.
Former N.S.A. Employee Pleads Guilty to Taking Classified Information
I guess the argument would be that you can buy craft supplies/chicken sandwiches from alternate sellers
> how many libraries have subscriptions to Playboy?

It might be a difference, but it's a difference for which the university comparison is a red herring.

How many universities have a porn department?
1. blood donation, Goodwill, etc. (You asked for "clever", right? I would say that convincing people to "donate" something, for free, and then selling it for a profit, is a pretty clever business model.)

2. Google/Facebook data collection in exchange for "free" services. Very clever.

EDIT: I'm not meaning to sound cynical, but rather I thought about the question, & these are the first things that came to mind.
iMessage can be deleted with no trace. If messages don't exist there, can you assume that they were deleted? That's basically what the judge is saying. What if a company has a deletion policy of 6 months, and someone starts litigation after 2 years, can the judge assume that any evidence was deleted as opposed to not knowing if evidence even existed?

Also SOX doesn't pertain here.
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From the article:

"In interviews, many tech employees and executives said they believed conservative views on issues like tax policy and regulation are welcome in Silicon Valley. But conservative views on social issues like gay marriage, civil rights and immigration meet more resistance ..."

While many of those issues seem like fair game in a (presumed) secular business environment, I don't see how an expressed conservative viewpoint that actively opposes civil or equal rights can be tolerated in a workplace. It is a necessary basis for any sort of collegiality and cooperation.

At the same time, I can imagine people freely saying disparaging things about conservatives (it's hard for me to resist sometimes) that would make for a hostile environment. I'd hope large SV companies could occasionally remind employees of that fact.
As cool as libraries are, and they are cool, if you value your time at even minimum wage rates, they are not "coffee money". That's why you... yes, you, even you... whip out your phone to answer questions that you would never dream of running to the library to answer on the spot. This is a real effect, not an illusion. Friction matters, a lot.
I'm also confused. What's a "modal employee"?
I do not doubt this:

> Most open source software is written by programmers who are full-time employed by companies which directly consume the software, at the explicit or implicit blessing of their employers. It is not charity work, any more than they charitably file taxes.

But I wonder how many important Open Source projects were started that way, by employees of companies which wanted to use those projects. Linux, for example, most certainly was not begun that way.
AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health have current contracts with Walgreens.

Amazon is trying to reach a 1:1 relationship with generic producers so they can skip purchasing from a vendor, reducing costs. In this effect they would have an advantage over Walgreens, CVS, or Rite-Aid.

If Amazon really wanted to they could distribute for one of the aforementioned pharmacy chains as well, provided they are approved by the FDA & DEA.
To me, brogramming culture includes the beer & pizza, maker, video game-playing, hobby programmer type. There's more to it, but imagine a software company that includes no people with interests in any of those activities. Do you know any like that?
"While we were completing legal documentation related to Dave McClure's resignation from 500, funding for certain companies was delayed. Since then, we have resumed fundraising, as well as funding our investment commitments. We have been regularly communicating with our companies regarding the status of their investment and expect to complete all outstanding investments in December."

Here's my outsider's guess: Dave was almost certainly a Key Person in 500's Limited Partnership Agreement. When a Key Person leaves, for whatever reason, that triggers a Suspension Event and the start of the Suspension Period. During the suspension period, the LPs are not required to contribute capital except for certain things (e.g. management fees, follow-ons). The LP's (some threshold or some combination of them like the LP advisory committee) then have 60-90 days to vote whether or not to continue with the fund.

500 would already have called down some capital so that meant they could make a few investments but otherwise, during the suspension period they likely couldn't make any new ones. Since then they got their LPs on board with the idea of continuing without Dave and now can fulfill all their obligations. That would make sense to me because 500 as an institution is much more than just one man.
I assumed that was in reference to the mode of a distribution - the most common type of employee?
Again, all these things people are saying are indeed true, but they also make the university comparison in the original quote something of a red herring.