skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is quite accurately pointing out that it's a system that is incredibly easy to game, AND that Glassdoor has no means or strong incentive to prevent inaccurate reviews from flooding their system.

That is a valid concern. Your comment is an ad hominem attack on the other hand.

I frankly don't think recruiters care about Glassdoor - there are plenty of people who'll take a job at a company with a 'negative' rating, and those are the exact people who the company is looking for in the first place. Let's not forget - companies who actually care about hiring, don't outsource it to companies that you imply profit from 'information asymmetry'.
No cool tech or interesting new research in this #metoo snoozefest.
Yet another piece of evidence that the US is turning into an authoritarian state - as, to be fair, others do too (especially China!), but the US have the unique advantage of being the technologically most advanced civilization.

In earlier times, when situations got too authoritarian, there were rebellions and revolution. With the level of militarization in police and military and the abilities made possible by today's technology (the Gestapo or the Stasi would have done anything for this kind of power), it is very well possible that a revolution might simply be made impossible or crushed before it even begins, as you can simply single out and eliminate potential "leaders" based on AI analysis of what people do... and what people think, as they post it on Twitter, Facebook or their own "private" cloud space.

In addition, the future of AI is already showing its first signs - and governments around the world have not shown any interest in planning for the inevitable millions that will lose their jobs or for the social unrest caused by this. Quite to the contrary: governments and right-wing parties are "looking back in time" and promising their citizens that they will bring back the "good old times" and snatching up the votes of the Frustrated Old White Men - and are very successful at this.

Scary indeed.
Zero mentions of Ray Kurzweil in this story.
Of course. What do you expect?
It is odd that Kessler seems to think no one will be interested in Yegge's thoughts. She writes:

"Yegge seems to be writing because he believes people will find his career move interesting."

the response:

Obviously some of us will find his essay interesting. Many of us were fascinated when we read his previous criticism of Amazon, where he worked for 6 years. Within the tech world, I believe his essay continues to be the most influential in terms of how we think about the relationship between Jeff Bezo’s and the computer programmers who work for Bezo. His discussion of Amazon’s early commitment to SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), and therefore well-defined interfaces, is fascinating, if you are into tech at all. When my mom asks me why Amazon seems to be beating all of its competitors, I try to summarize Yegge’s essay in a way that my mom can understand. Because I think Yegge’s explanation is one of the best one’s that we, the public, have available to us.
I agree this is a huge factor. Whiskey likely does contribute to hangovers more than vodka due to the stuff that’s leeched out of the charred barrels. But the quantity of water consumed with alcohol has a huge impact on hangovers. I am far less likely to feel hungover when I drink beer than cocktails because beer contains a lot of water and the cocktails I like do not.
You actually aren’t a mind. You are what is observing the mind.
Yep, /etc/debian_version is 9.3.

It has a docker0 network interface (among others)
It's not a civilian protocol - it's run by Air Force Space Command (the 2nd Space Operations Squadron) primarily for the benefit of the military, but as a matter of policy, the DoD also makes it available for civilian use. The key point is that military use comes first.
It is not a plane flying IFR. You don't really need an instrument panel to drive.

Losing the speedometer means you need to drive a bit more defensively. And you have higher risks of getting a ticket.

Losing the fuel gauge means you need to be more careful with your fuel management and refill more often. You can also use a dip stick.

Losing the light indicators is no big deal. They are mostly redundant information.

Losing temp and warning lights may be a problem but only if something else goes wrong.

Nothing really critical. It must be fixed but it won't prevent you from getting where you want to go.
The opposite is also victim bias. The only way to calculate risk for sure without any emotional bias is to get some solid numbers per 'risky thing to do.'
Should I take post-bacc classes in machine learning
Been out of college for about 3-4 years. These days due to a work project I find myself living near a top 3 university which has a continuing studies program that allows college grads to take classes for credit. I would like to take physics, graduate math and machine learning courses but they cost about $3k/course. Is this worth the cost or is it just better to stick with MOOCs?
Yup, PG wrote an essay on this: "How To Be an Expert in a Changing World".

http://www.paulgraham.com/ecw.html

When experts are wrong, it's often because they're experts on an earlier version of the world.

I absolutely believe there IS a "static world fallacy", and it gets particularly acute as you get older (and I'm not young).

A couple really obvious examples are say Apple's App Store, or Google AdWords. Huge companies have been built on those drastic changes in the environment. If you understood those things early, you had a tremendous advantage. AdWords was tremendously effective when it first came out. I know a number of people who built single-person companies on top of it.

Beware of hindsight bias: it's easy to think that those things were "obviously big", but there were plenty of other things going on at the time that you could have directed your attention toward.
>> Re-posting is fine here really, as long as it's innocent (!).

Well, I mean. Obviously I noticed that the first posting of the story had a very high upvote count. But I was going to post it anyway by that point (I got the story from another article I read today on HN, discussed in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243067, and thought it would definitely be interesting).

I can see that being an exploitable tactic (search for very old articles with high number of votes) but not "by hand"- one would have to scrape HN for that sort of thing to work.

I digress- I don't know how I'd prove my post was "innocent". I do try to maximise my karma so the high upvote count on the original story was definitely a motive. I try to use karma as a guide for what to post. Not that it's working :)
> It has a docker0 network interface (among others)

That's for the dockerd which is running inside the ... VM?

The interesting thing is that the uptime and dmesg show that this system is not shared on the kernel level - if I were to guess, I'd say that Google allocates a real virtual machine with a tiny OS running Docker, starts the docker container inside this VM and then grants you webshell/ssh access to this Docker container.

But why the Docker setup when the machine is yours anyway?
> I highly recommend procrastinating.

That's great if you are actually able to enjoy the time spent procrastinating. But when your procrastinating ends up with me, high strung, hard to relax, hard to get work done procrastinator, then it's not that great.
The last sentence really stuck home to me (edited for clarity):

While these Red Ocean ideas may not result in creating multibillion dollar companies they do offer opportunity that can lead to riches and personal autonomy.

It’s sad that we live in a world where the goal of personal autonomy is so lofty. We have an over abundance of resources in the West. And yet having the freedom to work on useful things under our own direction is rare. It’s a shame that having “autonomy” is such a difficult goal to obtain.
Works for me.

$ ruby --version
ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x86_64-linux]
> You do need to register as a business if you are located in EMEA.

Is that a T&C rule or a technical block? Because I'm in EMEA, not registered as a business, and it opened for me just fine.
And a time-saver over the old technique used in case of getting lost where you just went downhill until you reached a road (this got some friends & myself un-lost in the Sierras back in the 80's)
In response to your first sentence, if it were me, surely I would not plan a big trip if I just lost my instrument console. If it were my car and I was in the middle of the big trip, I would hopefully have packed my laptop so I can try to fix the problem.

Door ajar? Seatbelt loose? Now we're just getting into paranoia scenarios. What if a nuclear bomb landed and there won't be enough gas to drive me away from the blast zone!
As a Montana resident, I applaud Governor Steve Bullock's action to require net neutrality in the state of Montana. Agit Pai's controversial FCC decision to drop net neutrality seems to me to be a bad one, one which will be partially mitigated here by requiring network neutrality to be the local law of the land in Montana.

I was a bothered by the down-voting of a block of 13 comments although Moderator Dang was right to tag the comments as "shallow" and "partisan" and, therefore, inappropriate, since they stray substantially from the topic at hand.
Anything that strikes fear in the hearts of employers is good.
glassdoor pay data is stupidly innacurate.

Take a company that is headquartered in bay area. If they have an office in location X where X != bay area, the est salary for that company in the context of location X is always going to be much higher due to the bay area HQ. I suspect they may not even filter out bay area salary estimates for location X estimates.

There is no way company will pay for bay area salaries for sat location in Omaha.
This overall problem might be solved by offering periodic reporting where each subsequent report by a user is a bit more credible.
Who and who?
I think reasonable doses of fiction -- say a couple of books a month -- are useful, so long as you choose your fiction carefully. To me the best fiction is like hanging out with the coolest, smartest, and most articulate person you've never met, and letting them show you things they believe to be important.

This is not a substitute for experiencing things firsthand, but I can certainly point to many novels that shocked me into thinking about stuff differently.

Good fiction reaches you in a strongly empathic way, in a place where you're uniquely receptive to it. This is valuable for teaching things about your own life and the lives of others, which seems valuable.
> "The degree to which post-war Haiti could be called a "republic", except nominally, is somewhat questionable as well."

The definition of "republic" is quite general, and includes the Roman Republic and the German Democratic Republic, neither of which follow the Madison-derived definition described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#United_States .

Haiti had multiple forms of government. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Hait... :

1.1 Saint-Domingue (1791–1804)
1.2 First Empire of Haiti (1804–1806)
1.3 State of Haiti (1806–1811)
1.4 Kingdom of Haiti (1811–1820)
1.5 Republic of Haiti (1806–1822)
1.6 Republic of Haiti during the unification of Hispaniola (1822–1844)
1.7 Republic of Haiti (1844–1849)
1.8 Second Empire of Haiti (1849–1859)
1.9 Republic of Haiti (1859–present)

The 1804 massacre of most of the white population was under Dessalines and the First Empire of Haiti. The republic came later. Faustin Soulouque, who I mentioned earlier, was elected to be the President of the Republic of Haiti in 1847.

If you would like, feel free to ignore the "republic" part of my comment. My point holds that I think Haiti is an example where someone born a slave was elected president ... for some definition of the word 'elected.' I can't figure out who was able to vote in his election.

As a contributing factor to him coming from an underclass even in a society almost completely urged of white people, he was black in a culture where mulattos had held more political power. (Eg, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Pierrot "As President of Haiti, he was intended to be a figurehead for the mulatto ruling class.") He organized a massacre of mulattos while he was president, then as emperor he "installed black loyalists in administrative positions ... [and] created a black nobility".

BTW, Wikipedia's summaries aren't that detailed and I haven't found better. It's probably that I don't know where to go to look. My DDG search for Faustin Soulouque mostly came up with sites which use Wikipedia as the main source.

If there is a reason for why this example does not serve as a useful counter-example, then perhaps it's because there are enough qualifiers in the definition that the original statement "the only society in history to ..." is not actually that useful?

Add enough qualifiers and you can make anything sound special.
The Frog slowly boils.
Python 3.5 is also preinstalled.
You're allowed out to port 22 so maybe you could some tunneling.

Haven't tried it and it may be against the conditions.
It makes me happy to see one of these populated by people motivated to do a project. There were endless student projects like this in college to find a ___.
It's frustrating that the author takes what is a reasonable field for humans to research and conflates it with some kind of sexist drive for domination. Personally I feel like this sort of hogwash (the author even stops short of saying "as a mother") undermines the credibility of the NYT.
You're underestimating how expensive that goal is. Providing every adult with basic income so that they can pursue their dreams would bankrupt the country.
Show HN: How to store a set of four 5-bit values in one 16-bit value
That was actually a part of my mechanical engineering degree. We had almost a half semester spent in one class on engineering ethics. Definitely no such thing covered during my master's degree in computer science.
I believe that death is a part of life.

edit: guess I touched a nerve, but please have some respect. I wasn't being facetious, just so you know. I lost a newborn brother at age 5 and my father at age 11, so I've experienced death. I've grieved deeply. Yes there's tragedy in death. I can't and won't invalidate that. But there is so much more to death than tragedy. And more often than not, the tragedy is rooted in unfulfilled lives, not in death itself. I don't see how longer lifespans are going to magically cure the bigger problem of unfulfilling life habits being normalized, even enforced. There are too many people on this planet who haven't made peace with death, and who externalize their fear onto others. I believe this is the author's point. You downvote me without asking any questions? Call the author a luddite? I imagine you are someone who hasn't made peace with death and the forces of evolution. I urge you to face it from a fresh angle, to have courage and take a good look, it's not a monster unless you make it be.

And honestly, people who treated my father's death like a monster kinda traumatized me. They encouraged me to idolize my father in a way that distracted me from his wonderful, raw humanity, both in living and dying.

P.S. If anyone open minded wants an interesting perspective on death, check out the book "Living Your Dying" by Stanley Keleman.
better than moocs, just teach yourself. learn to research. everything you learn will change anyway, if you don't learn to learn, you're useless.
It's still a relatively weak radio signal, and that can be jammed analog-style.
I love this analogy: "Glassdoor upended workplace power dynamics in the same way that Ratemyprofessors.com altered the power dynamics of college lecture halls, where, suddenly, professors had to worry about whether their students found them to be “inspirational” or “hot.”"

As a former professor I have always found that site unbelievably odious. Did higher education improve when students (as paying "customers" of the university) got the upper hand in areas like grading practices and curriculum-setting? Does anyone think college education is in a better place today than 20 years ago, except the bizdev and admin staff? Surely Glassdoor could work the same wonders for workplaces...
Why shouldn't he?
I concur.. but talking about pay is no longer illegal (until Trump figures that out). So what we should do is talk with each other.
Boring Flamethrower
This piece is like a sentiment more than a real inquiry. The argument is based on avoiding any particulars. The fact is that life extension is not just a way for Peter Thiel to walk the earth forever; it is a set of medical interventions. If you're not against penicillin or bypass surgeries, what particular life extension techniques are you against?
Eh, I'm sure this is going to end up in a Coca-Cola commercial eventually.
This adds nothing to the discussion.
I feel like a mind can observe itself as long as there is some feedback control...
Not quite. I'm making the claim that they are adding value to the system, by correcting inefficiencies.
That’s my point... the financial system
is built to reward the wealthy and does not focus on creating new entrepeneurs. Commercial loans aren’t provided for startups. Only the SBA engages in that and you have to prove you don’t have personal funds and/or be a minority to get them (I know I’ve tried.)
Try a digitally surfaced Zeiss single vision lens in Trivex. It can be made in 0.01D increments. Visit a local university for your eye exam, they're probably not trying to sell you lenses. Seiko has good products but were bought by Hoya and have been going through many internal changes.

https://www.personalizedvision.com/zeisssinglevisionhd
My point is only that we can't really know whether Grendel is supposed to be some meaningless animal force or symbolic of something with a moral dimension because the original story and its context is lost to time.
Of course you have to put some effort into determining the reliability of the reviews you're seeing but it seems like an obvious improvement over not even having the option.
Tether is a company that created a cryptocurrency (USDT) pegged to USD that is a popular substitute for trading fiat USD on cryptocurrency exchanges. Friedman LLP is the accounting agency that was supposed to be auditing Tether's USD holdings to ensure they were maintaining a full-reserve (1 USD in holding per 1 USDT in circulation).

https://tether.to/announcement-transparency-update/
This seems liable to cause unintended side effects...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Don't feel too bad about this - salaries (at least in engineering) really have been rising and offers that would have seemed great a few years ago are no longer competitive. It's hard to keep your expectations adjusted to a shifting market.
I don't think "fake news" is actually a uniquely modern issue.
How much worse is it to use a cheap vodka rather than a 60-95% spirit?

I had planned to try making some liqueurs next month, probably with berries and/or spices, but if the vodka won't work well then I might not bother.

(I'm fine with destroying a cheap bottle of vodka, it's not so expensive. The one shop that a Google search suggests might have 95% spirit sells it for almost $60/L, which is a lot for one of my food experiments that probably won't work out very well.)
Nobody else was doing AdWords
I am sure a lot of people working on this stuff think they are doing something to secure their country and this is the ethical thing to do.
"Trypophobia is a proposed phobia (intense, irrational fear, or anxiety) of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps." (wikipedia)
Not relevant to life extension, but I think what you're saying amounts to the fact that the mind is more complex than most minds assume. (Perhaps including than you assume. For doesn't it require a mind to observe things, even itself?)
It's presented as a gag item, but has a legitimate Shopify checkout. (and apparently a $100 price cut from the leak)
As a species we're not ready for immortality or significant life extension.

Focusing on this problem before solving the many inequities of our societies is selfish. Hypothetically if a powerful person were to use such a treatment they should be assassinated lest they become an undying tyrant.
What does his have to do with the article other than driving traffic to that blog?
Is This a Little Spirit Girl Laughing?
It's about good vision habits, which may require lifestyle adjustment. Once that's done, exercises take a few minutes per day. Ongoing, similar to other forms of exercise, use it or lose it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16195629

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197112
Man, this "article" is the worst sort of garbage. It's nothing but a thin veneer over yet another "men are evil" diatribe. This tripe doesn't even rise to the level of being good yellow journalism.
Crying over the loss of 4 of your 8 children used to be a part of life a century ago. We changed that, and can change what it means to age as well, if luddites like the author of this article can be overcome.
Tesla owners have been writing javascript websites to run in the web browser on the 17" touchscreen ever since the Model S was released. You can't do much of a car dashboard, alas, but you can do weather forecasts, TODO lists, geofenced content like work server status while I'm driving to work, and so on.
It's entirely possible that the "Satan" in Job is a different entity than the serpent in the Garden of Eden, and that neither is meant to also be Lucifer, the Devil.

If you go by what the Genesis account says, the serpent in the Garden of Eden is just a snake that can talk.
I agree with the concerns about professor rating. Students are in a weird position where they are a “customer” in a sense but their incentives are not aligned with the university for grading. They may ensure up paying $20k to have a professor give them a (justified) failing grade.

For employees, it’s a bit better. It is reasonable to look for a good work environment, and employers won’t always be upfront in an interview setting. Having the inside scoop helps the potential employee.
So if the one seller counts on being able to buy the other seller's book if the first seller actually makes a sale, what happens if someone buys both listings at the same time and the higher priced listing is unable to source the item? Can the seller just cancel the sale for no fee? Why wouldn't everyone with a little time on their hands make 1.2x-priced listings for every single item available for sale on amazon and dropship from the cheaper listings?
"World's Safest Flamethrower"

Where is the fun in that?
Some billionaires, already invincible in every other way, have decided that they also deserve not to die.

I think a simple poll would find that practically no one feels they deserve to die.
Good on you, break a leg. No wait, dont, you might go bankrupt ;)
Ahahahahhahhaaa https://giphy.com/gifs/the-simpsons-hank-scorpio-zqhZB6bo5Fg...
Ah, without preserving order. That's a set of four 5-bit values, not a sequence of four 5-bit values.
> interactive [articles] like this tend to break [Instapaper].

I would argue it is squarely the other way around.
Malwarebytes Update Released to Fix High CPU and Memory Usage in Mbamservice.exe
And with no audits and some very sketchy behavior, the thinking is that there are hundreds of millions of Tether in circulation without any subsequent backing USD.

https://twitter.com/bitfinexed