skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the fiduciary duty the company has to shareholders is vague in this regard and practically speaking they can define the shareholders interest broadly, for example maximising returns at some indeterminate point in the far future. Shareholders can try to sue over this but almost certainly would lose the suit unless real malfeasance is uncovered. IANAL though.
No, foreign students are keeping UC corrupt. UC has been plagued by scandal after scandal, horrendous waste, graft, patronage...etc etc

The UC system needs more oversight, not more funny money. Cal had enough money to build a gorgeous football stadium. They have enough money to fund the Chancellor's alleged slush fund.

California residents have an extremely high tax burden. They are doing their part. UC needs to be cleaned up, starting with a renewed focus on their core mission. None of the necessary reforms will happen while California has one-party rule.
This argument has been going on for 20-30 years.

See: Netheads vs Bellheads. https://www.wired.com/1996/10/atm-3/

The cat video example was chosen very deliberately and isn’t a frivolous statement. Telcos want to distinguish between telemedicine and cat videos for a good reason — the requirements for delivering both are the same, but insurance companies have money, and the telco will have a higher tariff for “important” things like telemedicine.

Look at a company like Verizon. They are literally allowing billions of dollars of valuable assets (the POTS network) rot and have shed millions of customers with a high margin service. Some states (like NY) offered them billions of dollars of matching funds for capital investments. Verizon told them to fuck off.

Why? Verizon isn’t dumb. They know the politicians have no appetite for big Federal government investments in infrastructure, and isn’t going to for decades. They know that there’s more money to be made being toll takers, and as the internet players consolidate, there is plenty of cream to skim. 5% of Facebook or Google or Amazon is an unimaginable fortune, and they could eventually get the hands in that till.
Centralized billing is not the most lucrative method for creators.

It's only good for the middleman.
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I'm not an expert but has anyone made a solid argument for why the banks would use XRP as the medium of exchange versus the existing fiat reserve currency (USD) or a general use crypto currency (BTC/ETH/BCH/whatever wins)?

In contrast, I've seen multiple articles like the below which basically say 1) Ripple good, 2) XRP unnecessary. Based on nothing more than one person suddenly becoming one of the world's richest people with next to no market penetration, the hype vapors seem strong.

(I know there are proof of concepts being run but a PoC is no guarantee an implementation. Otherwise all fortune 500 employees would be wearing Google Glass while they ride their Segways.)

[https://www.forbes.com/sites/ksamani/2017/12/20/the-bear-cas...
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George Mason University leans heavily on international graduate students. The school increased no-credit-but-required classes on undergrads to pay those same international students who wish to be GTA's. It's almost like a Ponzi scheme.
Like many things, it's not that quite simple. I would argue that in some ways the charter between the state and the university was broken when the state of California drastically cut funding during the Great Recession and didn't restore it once the budget stabilized.

How can California residents consider it a state resource when its supported primarily by out-of-state/international students paying sticker price and international corporations?
> if I didn't know her personally I'd be starting to wonder if she was, for whatever reason, unable to pass muster at Google et cetera. Not the best decision to drop that after a day of drinking together. But I'm glad I did--it was apparently the nudge she needed to quit.

So she stopped being an indirect servant of popular will, and started selling ads. Great.

> She now works in the private sector and is thrilled with how much closer to her intelligence her new colleagues are.

Not only richer, but less moral and more likely to pat herself on the back. Even better.
Excellent explanation. But to complicated matters further, your description applies mainly to European licensing. The US music publishing workflow is different.

In the US, there is no CMO. After agreeing to a license, music publishers send their composition (word-and-music) catalog information directly to Spotify. There is no requirement that they need to send the associated recording with their musical composition. So the burden is on Spotify to match the composition up with the recording to recognize if the recording's underlying composition is licensed. (The recording is licensed because the actual audio file was sent to Spotify by the label).

So then Spotify needs to tie all this data together. Compositions can be owned by 5 publishers, who are all sending separate catalog files. Again, no requirement to send an unique identifier to tie these all are up. So Spotify does the best it can to associate all this data to figure out if a recording is licensed, but ultimately, they cannot verify millions of tracks. So they make business decisions that carry risk so people can listen to music. They can say, if we have 90% ownership, we will treat it as licensed or some other deviation from affirmatively knowing every copyright owner without a doubt.

So then the music publisher finds a handful of tracks that slipped through and were unlicensed. And they sue. And technically, those tracks were unlicensed, but its not for lack of trying from Spotify. And no music industry player is helping solve the metadata standards or systemic issues. They just lie in wait and sue for money or as a negotiation tactic. And they exploit the "Spotify is ripping off artists" narrative, when in reality, Spotify is working very hard and investing a lot of money to pay out artist and writers properly.

These lawsuits are very dishonest, but legally defensible. There are not in the spirit of any productive working relationship with the MAIN distribution channel of your product!
> This is white-knightism shrouded in ...

The author is a woman; not saying you didn't know that, but knights are traditionally men.

> The real causes are slew of issues that start and end in everyday human activity. If you want to help marginalized women, help them where they are being marginalized every day!

What sorts of activities, and where? I agree with all the rest of your points--just probing this one for the sake of completeness.
I think you're missing his point. He never said that the card isn't valuable, or that the rewards were not worth it. All he said was that it's not considered "genius" if you need to continuously lose money hand over fist by giving away freebies to attract people to your product. It's "genius" when you don't have to do that.
If only-- the major tech companies are full of people with intelligence ties from the executive suite on down.
Radio is not controlled by the listener, and has a lot of commercials interspersed. It's clearly not the same market either.
There's risk that any of those metrics could be compromised by Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Obvious counterpoint: Money is also a metric susceptible to Goodhart's law. Is it better or worse if the metric is useless except as a target?
Unfortunately both the UC and CSU systems are very top heavy. They've been nickle and diming the students and taxpayers to prop up some obscene salaries for regents and executives. Hell, UCSF outsourced a bunch of its IT staff to HCL (H1B), but hasn't even begun to trim the fat at the top.

Of course another option would be to lean more heavily on private donors like Zuckerberg and Benioff.
Wouldn't worry too much. If they're heading to SV, their talents may still benefit the NSA.
vimdiff is another one. Searching for merge.tool and diff.tool in the git-config man page shows a list of programs that git supports for conflict resolution.
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A question I would have, if I were an international student living in say, California, is why would I pay tuition as a legal immigrant on say a F-1 visa, but if I came in illegally, I would have a chance at getting a subsidy[1]? Could they just pretent to be illegal for the subsidy and then when done just go home on your F-1. It's not like the school would check or even less ask the feds about status.

[1]https://students.ucsd.edu/finances/fees/residence/ab540.html
> I can't really devote time to countering the unfounded assertion that every contended mutex must be a bug.

Good, because that's not what I said. If you're heavily hitting futex convention you do have a performance bug, though. You might be confused with general contention that's being resolved with a spinlock rather than futex wait, though.
Work at a company that has big security consulting arm a ton of people came from NSA.
2016 I was almost 2 years into using bamboo heavily. End of 2016 there was still a feature/ticket open with them requesting an http/s target for build notifications... Really, no option to notify an endpoint when a build finished...
Most organizations have no spare engineering time to invest in features that customers won't pay for.
Ads are incredibly useful and have prevented trillions of dollars of waste.
This is bad news. People like Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, not to mention CEOs of Google, Microsoft and Adobe all came to the US as students. Without the immigration of the brightest on the planet, the US will, over time, lose its edge.
And sold cigarettes. Don't forget that.
Charlie's not dating from the start of industrial civilization. He's dating from the creation of the first artificial intelligences, which is at least a century earlier. I think it's safe to say that these AIs' control of capital is largely responsible for the fast spread of industrialization, so that they could optimize for their purposes better.
He didn't say she moved to Google.
I can start one of thousands of pre-configured projects instantly from maven central's archetype catalog (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml). I don't even have to know what I'm doing to get a karaf-camel-amq-archetype or aws-lambda-s3-example project up in seconds. Java tooling is just so amazing.

How do I get a preconfigured quickstart project for say iron and diesel with rust? I read the rust book. I must have missed it.
That’s the top pay grade on the gs scale, there are special rates schedules and exceptions for specialists. NIH has Dual MD and research PhDs on payroll, those are unicorns... (I know a mid to top tier research university that has to start offers at over $700k for those, they don’t hardly exist, and that’s a university, they don’t make products) Nih doesn’t pay them GS rates either. NIST doesn’t pay gs rates. NSA could certainly do it too, and almost certainly does, it'd be difficult to live near hq on gs pay.

It still might be challenging to get a decent raise short of leaving for competition though. Pay is very easy to address in the grand scheme, the work environment, the politics at many levels, the organization, the idea that you could and will go to prison if you were to violate a policy or blow a whistle, inability to talk with your spouse, peers, or even coworkers about work, etc.. those things are hard and they probably suck there.
Wow. Your explanation just helped me SO MUCH to visualize all this stuff. Thanks
Copyright holders demand control over distribution, which makes smaller competitors less lucrative to rightsholders, so the rightsholders pick larger incumbents, and force smaller businesses to fail via litigation.

The problem is that copyright has an unreasonable amount of authority.
Like everyone else, I sure would want to know what kinds of conversations have been going on around RowHammer and customers most affected by it, and system/DRAM vendors.

I'm not a believer in stock price as good indicator of anything, sorry to skip that part.
You make it sound like foreign students are stealing resources from the US. To the contrary, they pay a lot for the privilege of studying, and they're likely to try to immigrate later -- and even if you're anti-immigration, it's madness to be against young, educated, skilled immigrants who've experienced your country at an impressionable age.
actually I was a little high. It’s cost per launch was $1.5B in 2011 dollars ($193B over 133 flights). It’s cargo capacity was only about 40,000 lbs, so around $37,000 per lb.

The truth was it’s stack had massive launch capacity, over 200,000 lbs. but it was almost all used up by lifting that space plane. A higher launch rate was never really possible. The solid boosters weren’t reusable without a huge amount of work, and the shuttles needed lots of maintainance between flights.

The BFR is designed with theses lessons in mind. It’s fully reusable and it’s seconf stage should be way more efficient. But we will have see how much maintenance it will require between flights.
Why can't a finance director afford a nanny? Why can't the finance director's spouse quit their low paying job? Either the job pays more than childcare (about $15/hr), or it's not a high paying job to give up.
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What are the chances that Ripple just got it's place in internet infamy along with pets.com?

As for the accompanying piece:

https://qz.com/1169000/ripple-was-the-best-performing-crypto...

Here's what I found in a short time:

Ripple - cryptocurrency. Released 2012.

NEM - Smart contracts platform. Announced 2014.

Ardor - Blockchain as service. Annonced 2016

Stellar - "completely decentralized consensus platform". Announced 2016

Dash - Cryptocurrency. Started out as Darkcoin in 2014.

Ethereum - Cryptocurrency and smart contract platform. Relased 2016.

Golem - "The Golem Network is an accessible-to-everyone, distributed, supercomputer that reduces costs (sometimes by over 10x) of scientific research, big data analysis, graphics rendering, machine learning, AI… just about anything that requires heavy computational power. " Announced 2016

Binance Coin - Did not find much info.

Litecoin - Cryptocurrency. Released 2011

OmiseGo - Wallet app. Released 2017
In 1977, education was 27% of the California State budget. In 2008, education was 37% of the California State budget, it is now 42%. And the absolute size of the budget itself is rising. So in fact funding is increasing as a percentage of the budget and in absolute scales.

The only real recent drop was 2007-2008. There is plenty of money available to run UC prudently as a resource for residents...indeed, more than ever before.

Downvote all you want, these are UCs own numbers so they are true regardless of your opinion or angst.
Don't think a billion $ liquidation would crash the market. It's already been done twice in the last few days, most recently, just this morning.

Source: "1 billion transaction payment just took place! #xrp #Ripple - something BIG is bowling behind scenes!" https://twitter.com/kOsOvA_CryptO/status/948145757944729601

1 BILLION XRP Payment = about 2 BILLION USD $ Link to actual transaction is on Ripple.com

Here's another 700 MILLION XRP sale. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ripple/comments/7nlrbc/another_700m...
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> So she’s a marketing genius for selling $2300 of rewards for $450?

They've done the math.

They know how quickly the points will be spent (slowly). They probably have a deal that when you buy something with points, they don't have to pay the company itself for say 6 months, or maybe they get a discount on the service like 15% off. They could even decrease the value of points over time.

They also know that you'll renew, and they won't have to give you $2000 worth of points again. They know the probability of renewal for each customer, each year. Each time you do, the deal gets sweeter for them.

That's how someone can "give you $2300 for $450" and still make money.
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This is happening across the US government as a whole. The US State department is dead for instance.

When you have talent and options why stay with a creaky ship that's sailing straight into a hurricane with a mad captain at the helm?
Typically, to be in any sort of management position you have to be a civil servant. To be a PI or run your own research program you have to be a civil servant. Contractors are great, but there are a number of things vital to government agencies that they cannot legally do.

Which means that your managers are still getting paid civil servant wages, no matter how well paid the contractors working under them are. Consider how well run a tech firm would be if it paid less and less competitive salaries the higher up in management you go.
I believe that Peru has the largest Chinese population (over a million) in Latin America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Peruvians
another neutral/non-normative comment retracted
I like the overprovisioning concept fine, but it's going to be pretty expensive to overprovision for the possibility of high-speed connections between all random pairs of hosts everywhere in the world regardless of geography. We'll probably have to persuade a lot more people to value this degree of connectivity ideologically, because demand for it isn't really getting expressed much right now.

I don't want to sound like a Bellhead here, but the packet switching infrastructure that's been built out has embodied some assumptions about its likely patterns of use. To change those patterns of use a lot (which I'd like to see too) probably needs more infrastructure. Even things like ADSL are a problem here. I agree that path asymmetry doesn't feel at all healthy for the Internet -- it feels like it's baking in producer and consumer roles -- but there are a few counterarguments that may give us some pause:

* It's never been cheaper for people who specifically want to provide services to others to rent servers in colocation facilities. It's getting cheaper every year. So, maybe people who care to do so could just rent some servers. (Of course, this might give them less autonomy because there are more people who can decide to kick them off or shut them down, and they might still not have the infrastructure to distribute media that they produce at home to the servers they rent. On the other hand, running things at home may make anonymous publishing harder because the associated broadband service is usually tied to a physical address by the ISP.)

* There's never been a huge amount of expressed demand for symmetric network connections, even when they've been available as an option. (Maybe this is different in different countries?) The economic division of network operators into "eyeball networks" (major net traffic sinks) and "provider networks" (major net traffic sources) seems to be getting sharper over time. The network operators themselves might have an economic incentive to try to get their users to equalize the traffic in both directions -- especially in terms of arrangements around settlement-free peering -- but they haven't managed to change most users' habits very much this way.

* I think of myself as a very pro-decentralization Internet user, yet whenever I run "ifconfig wlan0 | grep bytes", my download volumes consistently dramatically outpace my upload volumes, even though I have a symmetric broadband connection both at home and at work! So apparently I'm not being the change I want to see in the world.