skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My saying "It became difficult when you would go online and see just how many people iterated these sentiments behind a veil of anonymity." does not mean I am overestimating how many people this online group represents in the real world. Even if I underestimated it, it was a sentiment I was not at all exposed to in real life, ever.

"Anonymous communications technology that enables avatars are always going to attract these kinds of malcontents, lending to a perception that most people are bad actors."

Why then, was this not something realized by the "prophets" of the Internet 2.0? That's what the author is asking. What conclusion did I arrive at which came from error? Please kindly point that out to me.
I think middleboxes also just includes network load balancers. A lot of places do TLS termination at a load balancer and plain HTTP inside the data center. These load balancer appliances are probably where a lot of these issues come up. And they aren’t there to spy on you.
“died on Dec. 27, 20 months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 63.”

A form of cancer where we have made almost zero progress. What’s it going to take to get more research?

It has already been 10 years:
https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
I listened to this talk and enjoyed it.

Question for the author. It reminded me of something else, a number of years ago.

Did you ever consider this:

http://wiki.rumpkernel.org/Repo:-drv-netif-dpdk
I have no experience in the Aerospace industry; won't announcing that the A380 is so precarious make airports reluctant to spend on supporting them anyway?

Maybe the huge numbers at play here change the economics, but in other industries a signal like this would often kill off all related investment.
Thank you again. I forgot about the priorities, especially with how the financial industry has a lot of different needs, such as transactional reliability, whereas there are parts of git that are very fuzzy in different areas because file comparison isn't as binary as a financial transaction or have as many repercussions if off slightly.
>>Situation in top tier colleges is lot better.

Situation there is even more worse. Most of them are job hoppers who hop job after job.

Most people from IITs I know don't even a single full project on their resume.
There's a sizeable minority that believes that we already have too many college grads [1] and that the number of college educated jobs in the United States will continue to decrease due to automation and outsourcing/globalization. That camp certainly won't be up for shouldering the cost of something that they think there's already too much of.

[1] and possibly that the ones who do need it will be able to pay off college debt reasonably... which I don't think is quite true but I sort of understand the reasoning that making college affordable for those who really should get it and making college affordable for everyone even those who won't actually make a productive use of it are two different things.
Speaking of transparency, one thing I've often wondered is if HN algorithms or admins ever downvote links to competitors such as Reddit.

I've sometimes submitted links to Reddit discussions and they virtutally never get upvoted. In the past I've just assumed this was because HN's readers themselves didn't want to see such links, but now I wonder if HN's algorithms or admins downvote or otherwise bias the site against them.
True. For that much money you could hire instead in Canada and not deal with language or time zone barriers.
> they will run a rather random route, and may or may not get to that spot on the rug you'd rather them clean

This could probably be solved by the robot mapping floors as it sweeps them, which most already do. Results could be accessed via pc/tablet, where a user could mark specific areas as "rug", "kitchen" etc. I bet we will see this sort of feature appear in a not-so-distant future.
I've had amazing outside outsourced engineering done both in India and Eastern Europe. In the case of India, it was with a specialty firm. The big job shops, be they in India, Philippines, etc. have a limited life cycle as outsourcing for basically "crud" apps goes by the wayside.

There was no "serious engineering" going on at any of the large Indian firms I dealt with. Boutique, for sure serious work.
Reddit is a YC company and HN is just a free service provided through YC (not a company), so it doesn't really seem like they have the incentive to do this.
Look back further in my history and I mention being Ghanaian multiple times...

If you need my life story I’m 23, was born in Ghana and spent about 10 years of my life US so a sizable portion, but spent 3 years in Ghana somewhat recently, and most of my family is still in the country.

What a time we live in when people will dig into your history half-heartedly to try and claim you’re lying about where you’re from instead of believing us stupid monkeys have learned what a computer is or how to look up incredibly popular terms.

My father recently forwarded me a blockhain convention (misremembered the link) in Ghana.
I’m in the US, but I’m from Ghana, see above comment for details...
10 petawatts for one picosecond is only a small amount of energy, about 0.002778 KWh

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10+petawatts+for+1+pico...
The apocalypse has arrived. We’re living in it now.
> nuclear fusion isn't useful for weapons

Um, what? All modern nuclear weapons use fusion.
Do you have any quantitative evidence that shows that the moderation efforts meant to minimize systemic effects actually have the desired outcome?

What are the quality metrics?
This is plain BS. I don't recall any CS department in India (and I know 100's) teaching, MS-word, Logo, Basic, Powerpoint, excel etc. However, I did TA'ed at Rice University, TX, Excel course for freshman.
yep. replace "main" with "develop" and that's more or less git flow.
Fucking plagiarism at its best, here’s the original http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
FYI this is the paper that lays the key foundation for AlphaZero, which recently got a lot of attention for easily beating the earlier Go-winning algorithms without looking at human games, and then beat the best chess algorithm with 6 hours training.
I think you could equally say it allows bypassing oppressive taxes and allows citizens to bypass draconian snooping, it is all a matter of perspective.
> Whenever I read about "ignition" my mind goes strait to weapons research.

We knew how to ignite a fusion weapon in the early 1950s. The problem is how to ignite a controlled fusion reaction that can provide clean energy. That's what the word "ignition" is referring to in this context.
it’s not like people aren’t trying. it’s just a real bastard of a disease.
It's a mix of ideologies. But the moderation ideology is largely authoritarian, which is enjoyed by both the left and right.
I search through GitHub on a regular basis
https://github.com/donnemartin/awesome-aws

https://github.com/simplemerchant/awesome-aws-lambda

https://github.com/JeffRMoore/awesome-cloudformation

https://github.com/Funkmyster/awesome-cloud-security

https://github.com/John-Lin/aws-nodejs
Best wishes to you and your loved ones
Magento is a wordpress plugin, or similar enough. Hardly a large company.

Samsung is a big hardware company, I'm not sure what they would have in software job but why not.

GitLab is a fully remote company, they don't recruit anywhere specifically. Their full disclosure on their (low) salaries and losing customer data is certainly driving away the senior folks I know.

Game companies are the shithole of the industry, the worst conditions and pays, worse than Indian sweet shops and failed SV startups. There is no sane job or career to be made there.

Back to the point. You're going to work in a consulting shop, soon enough.
> Fusion is used for boosting

That's one use in a weapons context, but not the only one.
> a lot of software written in Silicon Valley

The vast majority of software are written a) in house b) outside of SV c) in Java and C#
56,000? That’s it? That’s literally like one city block in Delhi. I think they will survive.
Profit-sharing is what capitalism should be
And please, do explain yourself, I’m seething right now so I’d love to understand where you get off trying to imply something like that.

I’m glad you didn’t have the balls to come out and just say what you were accusing me of so I’m sure the response will be “I wasn’t doing that! I just quoted you! You see!”

Yeah fucking right.
The grass in my lawn (in Connecticut) really thrives in the soil here. If I let it go for a whole month in the may-oct range, then it becomes 12-15cm long and takes hours and hours for my little mower to get through.

Perhaps I just need to grow a different kind of grass?
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> how to maximize the complex-system-interestingness of a public, anonymous internet forum dedicated to intellectual curiosity.

Without knowing what metrics you are using it's pretty much impossible to suggest improvements. I learn the most from reading a respectful back-and-forth that goes on for a few responses and is not just both parties making a single statement.
The island that swapped donkey rides for offshore cash
>isn't the ultimate conclusion radical freedom?

No. The belief that allowing all ideas to stand on their own merit would be inherently good is the sentiment we are questioning. Is it? Is a radically free market in terms of goods and supplies the best idea? If not, why did we think it would apply to speech and ideas? As much as we love to live in the fantasy where good speech will counter bad speech, our history of research into markets and behavioral economics should show us that marketing, the ability to control outlets of speech, etc. make it unlikely that good speech always gets an equal (or even similar) opportunity to counter bad speech).

>the overall result of this openness seems to be growing disdain for beliefs which we now know are founded in hate, not logic or science.

All beliefs have some kind of fundamental assumption taken on faith, even the ones you will claim are founded on logic and science. Even the idea of science as definitive proof is based on the fundamental belief that the peer review method of scientific correction and checking cannot be coopted or subverted (and yet examples show that it can).

>Do you really feel that the world is in a worse place than it was in the 70's or even in 2010?

No but why does this matter? It doesn't mean every choice we made in the past was right. If we had chosen a centrally controlled, heavily censored Internet rather than the radically free and open model we live with now, still the world would be a better place than in the 70s.
I would contend that engineering FIRMS have upped their skills with more emphasis on soft skills and management feel goods (having people on site tomorrow if asked, training and such. They’re offering a larger value proposition at a higher cost when management has realized that lowest bid doesn’t necessarily mean best value.
For a CW (continuous wave) laser, that would indeed be a lot of power. But for a q-switched pulsed laser, it’s not impossible.
> accreditation is de facto mandatory and creates an artificial shortage of colleges, keeping tuition high.

More specifically, it creates an artificial shortage of affordable colleges, i.e., those which offer federally assisted financial aid programs.

> Why not try what works in most European countries: fund colleges adequately and shift the burden of the cost from the individual to society as a whole?

This article seems to offer a solution in line with some European countries --- most notably, Germany, which famously has a dual education system [1]. Not everyone needs to go to college, and I think there's a high likelihood that not everyone should, given the success rates of vocational high schools and equivalent colleges.

I also don't think that free or reduced college costs make sense or are a net-positive for society in general. For one, college is essentially an investment which increases your earnings potential over time. Subsidizing college is approximately like society giving 17/18 year olds free money (to the order of >$100,000) to invest. I don't think society giving away money on the order of 6 figures is a good idea, not to mention that you would run to severe problems such as misaligned incentives/principal agent.

Furthermore, free or heavily subsidized college seems to disproportionately benefit the class of U.S. citizens who most likely go to college, i.e. upper-middle-class families, which I don't think need the most help right now.

(I've heard rumors that college-as-an-investment might not be the best analogy; please correct me if that's true/I'm wrong.)

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Dual_education_system
> “If you took the Barres lab out of the field of glial studies, there would be no field,” Raff said.

The highest of compliments. RIP
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american people who judge indians is pathetic,
and the fact the they feel "superior" is really funny.
i bet that with the same education an indian is way more smart than an american.

most of the comments in this thread are bullshit.
Some sites are penalized because they have been the source of many lightweight submissions. You may not be surprised to learn that reddit.com is one.

However, there are many ways for such penalties to get overridden. For example, if the submitter is known to have posted many fine submissions in the past, the penalty doesn't count. Your account is one of those. Thanks for posting fine submissions to HN!

By the way, it's not hard to get answers to things like this that you're wondering about. You simply need to ask us at hn@ycombinator.com.
There is some evidence that the low FODMAP diet that has proven very effective for managing IBS can also be effective for managing IBD such as Crohn's. Personally, it has been much more effective for me than any of the half dozen medications I have tried.

Of course, this is not actually a cure for Crohn's, just a treatment.
Not far behind is the open documentation for the military, DISA STIGs, for Linux and Unix environments. Not sure they have anything for Docker yet unless you count treating each container like a vanilla Linux or Unix box, and many here know that only gets you so far if you don't understand container system hardening; even CIS controls specific to Docker here are a surprise to me as someone who deployed them for traditional platforms in years past. From experience there is a lot of overlap between both for OS management. The templates and documentation for DoD stuff does not require email signups for PDFs or an expensive org membership for GPO templates for Windows and other nonsense, unlike SANS-affiliated CIS.

https://iase.disa.mil/stigs/Pages/index.aspx

https://www.open-scap.org/resources/documentation/security-c...

Either way, blindly taking these policies, or from a vendor like Calvirin, who I'm sure are good, is a recipe for disaster when you and/or fellow admins do not review all hundreds of controls and know your environment very well, if previous life experience taught me anything.
I was curious what it sounded like but couldn't find any source.

Thanks, from a fellow Islander (PEI, Canada).

And Biscay is in for a rough night force 11!
What nonsense, if anything it's techies who are themselves promoting this theory after years of working in the tech industry

Soft skills are important especially in programming. Open source projects for example, live and die by how much and how well they can engage their community, an inherently soft skill.
Thank you for this, I've been long wishing for a NValt clone with an inline Markdown preview. Currently I write longer notes in Sublime Text,now Typora seems a nicer alternative.
Go templates are not particularly fast, but I would be astonished if the client-side way one that battle.

There are faster server-side template engines in go though. One approach I particularly like is https://github.com/bouk/statictemplate, which generates code from your standard go templates that makes them quite a bit faster.
Well, we have lots of data and we look at it all the time. Does that count as quantitative evidence? I wouldn't say so. I would call it just-so stories with data.

People who ask us about this usually would prefer a world in which all such calls would be free of human interpretation. That's a fantasy, in my opinion. We don't try.
Are you happy about “happy path testing” at your project(s)?
Even if the expertise for this is all in China, why don't the Chinese put a shoe factory/machine in California so I can have my custom made shoes two weeks sooner and cheaper?

It doesn't even require any human experts to run, so why does it matter where the experts live?
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It's better to have the right explicit features in your model than implicit ones. It's just harder to know how to make those features, and to know that they're right, which is part of the appeal of implicit features.
Its strange that you take the names of CEOs and proceed to deduce that as a proof of them being good programmers. Most of them go to Ivy league engineering schools, and then Ivy league management schools. And then from there straight jump into management barely spending any time at all in engineering. And the whole reason why they do engineering is largely because they need a bridge course to get into a masters level management degree. Once you get into a Ivy league management school, going wherever from there is essentially a networking activity not exactly a great indicator of your engineering performance. It helps to have friends in high places.

Management positions have long been seen as replacements for IAS.

The 1% you talk about parse XMLs at Google and Microsoft. The 99% parse the same XMLs at services firms. The 1% thinks they are special because of a association with a certain Ivy league brand name.

Lets talk of the Indian 1% when somebody in a Indian university writes some thing the equivalent of a Linux, Perl or FreeBSD.

Lets not over glorify these placement agencies as some institutes of engineering excellence.

For what its worth the 99% what people generally berudge look down upon essentially is employed in Indias space programs that sends probes to mars and moon, built bulk of Indias pretty advanced tech defence infrastructure.

Only thing IITians are good at is self worship.
"We can easily extend what we've done for the 2D histogram to calculate 3D histogram... Unfortunately we cannot visualize this histogram."

Why not? Couldn't you just create a 3D image?
"Sure, this is a case where change could have only happened if everybody else joined in at the same time."

If the US wasn't taken over by the free market capitalists for the last 30 years, this would be a solved problems. You can't use a non-conforming browsers to do online shopping. Done.

"just ask any programmer using a typed language whether they trust code just because it compiles without errors"

This is misconstruing the benefit. This prevents a wide class of errors, and a good type system _assists_ in providing generally good designs. Other than the Haskell people not many claim it magically produces correct code.

"not having certain checks at the infrastructure level doesn't prevent developers from writing correct and maintainable code if they chose to and understand how."

Neglecting such checks is a fairly good indicator of a bad programmer, though. It's like someone might manage a landing while muting the tower, disabling instruments and putting on a blind fold, but shouldn't expect to keep their job afterwards.

"The reason the web was so full of shitty code for most of its existence is that "real developers" didn't take it seriously and refused to learn the technologies."

And frankly, it was a pretty sensible choice, it was pretty clear that the politics of the time were stacked up against them. The same sense that tells people to use the safety mechanisms tells them to not fight losing fights.

"And finally, the reason WHATWG's HTML revision was so well-received was primarily that it also defined appropriate error handling for real-world situations."

No, WHATWG was well received because of a better, more approachable documentation style, significantly better marketing, and good short-term results to reinforce that marketing. W3Cs complete paralysis didn't help.
You've entirely imagined that.

Actually your comment is a textbook example of what I described. HN makes this easy, because no matter what you believe about HN, you can always find examples that appear to support it. Not that most people bother to try, or even make the simplest effort at factual truth (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16019042).
PDF is unreadable for me on iPhone/safari. Zooming in is just blurry.
<frameset> history does repeat.
Then every browser could be used to send spam. It would be horrible. Imagine that every person who visits a compromised page immediately started sending spam emails over smtp. Or spam irc messages.
The point of the article is that humans aren't making shoes anymore. So who has the best human expertise is irrelevant.

The fully automated shoemaking machine could be placed anywhere the raw materials could be shipped.
Overall, I've seen more full stack skills, polyglots, and a willingness to tailor design and stacks to the problem. Companies want an FTE or two that replaces an entire off shore team and we accommodate to avoid off shoring.

We've adapted as a community to have a skillset and evangelize stacks that at minimum compliments off shore if not replaces them.

Simply put, after all the basic Dev and ops jobs left, we moved up the value chain.

It's a cycle and the off shoring firms will move up the value chain and US devs will further specialize in to ML, AI, speech, Big Data/Data Science, etc. Those areas are quickly being commoditized by the cloud providers, so they're within reach of most US developers. Furthermore, off shoring firms will likely be content to provide the cheaper, lower level rungs of the value chain.
I didn’t say people weren’t trying. I was asking for more research. Pancreatic cancer is not generously funded. Most would argue that it’s underfunded.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/cancer-funding-doe...

https://www.cancer.org/research/currently-funded-cancer-rese...
> 14 milligram HB11 can produce 300 kWh energy

That's an enormous amount of energy from a minuscule amount of mass. Using their predictions, I could run my house for a year on less than 1 gram of HB11.

How does this compare with the energy output of current-day fission reactors?
10PW for 1 psec is 10^4 joules. 300 kWh is about 10^9 joules. I don't know what the inefficiencies may be, but these numbers leave quite a bit of room for them.
This is a deep and sadly common intellectual mistake.

Try think better and further!