skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like this post has been killed, but here's another perspective anyway.

I'm a former student at a school functionally identical (and in many, many ways culturally similar) to Columbia. Aside from my professional-focused studies related to topics many HN readers would be familiar with, I'm a serious philosophy student. I've taken classes in both of these academic categories within philosophy that the author seems to be outlining. For what it's worth, I do not fit the political or demographic mold of a person who would stereotypically pursue the "progressive" branches of philosophy being discussed and in many cases criticized here.

There are many classes with different teaching styles. Some present material as dogma without affording critique, as in the feminist theory class the author described. This is bad teaching, it is possibly even more common in classes on feminist and similar theory. It's there in other areas of philosophy, including mind-focused and analytic topics, but harder to encounter until you're already deep in academia. I promise that there are Plato scholars who act just as the professor in the article did.

There are those here that feel feminist, queer, and race-driven theory is not serious "philosophy" or who will reduce it to cultural marxist or similar terms. This is intellectually dishonest, and probably driven by odious people you've met that espouse beliefs along the lines of Foucault or the Frankfurt School. Yes, Foucault's supporters can be extremely annoying and unreasonable. But there are real insights in many progressive philosophical works, some of them evoking striking and existential moments of reflection, and proposing new ways to live and see the world.

I urge readers here to attempt to look past the frustrations they might have with feminists or progressives and try to find something valuable in these works, because it really is there. I.e., when you hear people talk about things like abolishing the police or that all women or people of colour are violently oppressed, try not to react immediately to these phrases and see what is really being said. Philosophy is often about getting to the very root meaning of a term, or making subtle distinctions, or creating technical terms out of everyday language. You may find that the people who have annoyed you have bastardized the philosophers they espouse, or have at least failed to communicate the meat of their work.
Then they should have kept PayPal as a subsidiary.
No, because without Prop 13 a retired teacher isn’t going to want her house to be worth $5 million if she plans on continuing to live there.
The best office I have worked in had cubicles with tall walls and overhead cabinetry. The cubicle was large enough to move around in and could support one other person sitting looking over my shoulder. We had a small conference area with small table and whiteboard that didn't see much action. We also had a large conference room with a real wood desk. The managers had the three offices that surrounded the three rows. This was a team of 16 devs and QA and dba, 2 managers, and a CIO. Remote workers would come in and grab a free cubicle or take the group area when no free cubes were available.
Going to a well known third party is a guarantee that my payment data isn't sitting in a poorly secured vendor database. That's more important to me than a seamless transaction. PayPal is most useful when you don't fully trust the site you are buying from to have their shit together.
You can only fool people so many times though, before they start catching on (as you have). No edge lasts forever in financial markets.
foldl?
I don't use C++ outside of games programming, I'm not familiar with the Boost filesystem API.
I have no issues with John Hennessy, but I’m surprised they didn’t give the chairman position to Larry Page, who’s CEO and a Co-Founder. I wonder what’s preventing him from taking over full control...
That's.... that's very approximate.
The amount of security exploits due to memory corruption in software written in C proves that during the last 50 years, it isn't that well understood.
What does a justified valuation have to do with stock price?
IMHO, you run into the same problem as journaling. User interaction is basically a stream of deltas. If everything is perfect, it’s awesome. But really, you want checkpoints from time to time.

It’s a cool idea. It’s cooler if your organization has the chops to rarely introduce defects. Replaying on refresh works ok ish. The really cool part is making every interaction with the system uniform. State comes in, small tweak, state goes out.
At this point I’m thinking the same thing. I just wish I had bought way more when I bought in. With their year over year growth I’m starting to wonder again if they aren’t still undervalued.
> It is more about whether we want to live in over-populated ant-farms or want to pay premium for less dense living.

You are forgetting all the people, such as myself, who are willing to pay a premium for more dense living.

I love being able to walk everywhere.
We are hiring at multiple levels and in multiple locations, so it's a big range. You don't want an upper bound on it, do you? That would be limiting. :-)

It's possible to beat typical Silicon Valley pay while living out in a cheap place, with a fresh college graduate maybe getting 6 figures after a year or two, but I'm certainly not promising this to you. We seem to be well above the national average. Most people get a large raise after a year or two.

To put it another way, I'm feeding a family of 13 (sole provider) and living on a 0.48 acre lot that is less than a mile from the beach. I can walk to work, which is across the street from the beach. With the right technical background, you could do that too.
> But how was that different than 10-20 years ago?

The way the internet has become intricately intertwined with our lives has made the repercussions to become a bit more severe than they used to be.

Whereas before an event like "donglegate" might've blown over relatively quickly 15 years ago, technology fomented the masses and multiple people lost their jobs over a relatively harmless situation (Adria Richards was still unemployed last I checked).

I don't think it's unfair to say that without the global reach of a mass communication platform like twitter, that situation would've been resolved quite differently (probably a scolding by the conference organizers to the two men) and probably to the satisfaction of everyone involved, instead of how it actually resolved to no one's satisfaction (other than the mob seeking blood).

Relatively minor transgressions (like mis-using the word "dongle") become major blowups when people get to dehumanize the parties involved using technology.

I don't think people are arguing that you should be able to use slurs with no consequences, more that it's incredibly easy to take something minor out of context and turn it into a massive blowup using the internet.

Basically: "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged"
I kind of agree, in the sense that they are similarly ethical/reasonable. Their platforms couldn't be more different, but I don't see one party being evil and corrupt and the other party being good, which is what often seems to be the opinion online.
The economy tanked and just as it was starting to recover the government made it illegal to take on risk by having no or crappy insurance. Meanwhile healthcare prices skyrocketed. Simultaneously we doubled down on our immigration policy towards providing citizenship for unskilled, impoverished immigrants rather than the kind of means based immigration policy popular in most of Europe. That means we missed out on a lot of talented, educated immigrants who might have either started companies or been willing to work for startups. We cracked down on internships. And we allowed patent trolls to run amok. Let's also not forget the credible threats of doubling minimum wage.
what are the odds that someone applying to Indeed will get a non-automated response?
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I also recently received a masters in philosophy from CU and know exactly who you’re talking about! By and large, I agree with her assessment. However, I would add that close-minded professors and students are quite rare - or at least they were when I was in grad school. Among the students, I found everyone to be willing to debate any of these issues, even if passions were strong.
Like these ridiculous laws in Sydney:

- Riding without a bicycle helmet: $319
- Riding furiously, recklessly or negligently (whatever that means): $425
- Cycling on footpath and over 12 years of age: $106

I wonder if the laws are because Australians are "larrikins" or the other way around.
> I think controversy is not that building more has no effect on rent prices - of course more supply drives prices down.

After reading many internet conversations on property, the idea that supply drives down prices in property is far from an accepted viewpoint.
Delhi and Mumbai are among the world’s most stoned cities
May the best idea win
> How do you know she is "pretending"?

I mean look at all her other positions. She was supposedly for the Iraq war until she was against it. Against marijuana legalization until she was for it. For building a wall with Mexico until Trump supported it. For single payer healthcare until Bernie supported it. And so on.

It's normal for people to change their minds as they learn more about things. It's not normal for people to change their minds on every single political issue in lockstep with internal polling. In the same way that things like Benford's Law can be used to detect fraud, she seems to fail some fundamental test of being a real human.
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And the lack of production tab and even sometimes supply counts. I'm a serious StarCraft 2 player and trying to watch Brood War games is still immensely confusing.
I don't know what techs you are using, but I would suggest you looking for:

* Google Spanner (relational) or Datastore (no SQL with ACID)

* NodeJS app running in some instance as gateway with Google Functions, or just Google Functions.
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But the OP doesn't argue that machines currently have a better fatality rate. And so it's seems nonsensical to say that his use of the fatalities/year metric is more "misleading" compared to fatalities/km.

The OP used the fatality rate to say that humans were terrible at driving, because so many fatalities occur out of basic, preventable human error, despite all of the money and research and policy invested. And the context of the comment is in pointing out human fraility when it came to consistency at mundane, mechanical tasks.

I would agree that the OP's use of fatalities is perhaps sensationalist. His point would have been far more clearer if he talked about all kinds of accidents.
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Awesome! I've been using patchwork for some days and was always curious how to navigate to these ssb:// link i see thrown in places.
You just throw it in the search field and you'll see all the details! top!
I think that's well known. I'm asking the "official hours"
I'm from America where I take freedom of expression seriously. People have the right to publicly attack whomever they want. They are free to get made at the Norwegians. My concern is that increasingly within the US, especially our higher education institutions, it's becoming acceptable to use violence as a response to something you don't like [1]. It's becoming common to ban people you don't like from a public forum at a college.

Gazi is an example of a loud person on YouTube. I picked him because he is so out there. He's a caricature of the problem. There are many people in the US right now that blame everything on whites. They go so far as to push the idea that only whites can be racist. We see this in comments made by BLM. Various celebrities hint at it.

The student was arguing against free speech zones. They are illegal in the United States [2]. Again we see people associated with "check your privilege" using it to abuse people of their rights. I don't want this disenfranchisement to continue.

I picked Vice specifically because that article is a voice crying out in the wilderness. They push [3] for racial tensions [4].

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmNz2jGzsDA
2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQGF1UuPRPg
3 - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwzjvz/dear-white-people-...
4 - https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/j5ga5x/hoop-earrings-are-...
Why is a reserve cryptocurrency needed?
Why would you sue someone for offering a breakable product? If people don't want it, they don't have to buy it. Seems like a pretty bad precedent to set.
Any that we'd actually heard of?
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I didn't call anyone weird, I said I found it weird.

I didn't say that it wasn't possible for someone working for a company with huge cash reserves to have been paid fairly.
That’s not necessarily inevitable since a large part of what makes marketplace trust metrics hard to game is that it costs a lot of money to drive fake transactions through it, since the marketplace will be taking its cut each time.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act strongly encourages non-Employee Chairman of the Board. It’s the direction that well-governed companies are moving.
Thanks for the info!

For people outside this field of work like me (a software / cleantech guy), is there a concise spreadsheet to show the state-of-the-art?

i.e. Listing different types of cancers with the most promising immunotherapy treatments for each type, expected confidence and success rates, trials that one can enroll into?

It'd be a good first place to go to whenever we hear of someone who has 'cancer' - that word is so generic that it's hard to figure out what our action item should be.
That mindset was what led to prop 13. When did altruism become such a dirty word? When did selfish, short term thinking become such the norm? That isn't the kind of thinking that built the stuff we take for granted.
DynamoDB and Google Datastore.

Give a look in the Google datastore
Yes, and a lot of it confidently arrived in the month leading up to these actual numbers.

Tons of money exchanged hands on the stock market because of it.
That is an interesting way to spell "dog".
Indeed the same.
It's also worth mentioning that he's still on the board, just no longer as chair.
I believe they were saying despite being in that business, they -still- think there should be much increased privacy, like the features discussed in OP more widespread.

They don't seem to have said so clearly enough. I think some people just read the first half of the sentence and are ready to be mad!
AI Expands Role in Chip Design
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but several vital plugins seem to be missing in the Linux download. Lcvcore for example. Compiling from source seems to properly populate the folders.
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> Are we in an advertising bubble?

Unlikely.

Online still has a fairly small share of overall advertising dollars.

User behavior continues to shift from traditional advertising venues (e.g., TV) to digital.

Spend continues to lag that shift as well.

In other words, if anything, expect it to increase.

Most of this comes from Meeker's annual Internet report:

http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends
"Over-populated ant farms" is a pretty strong phrase, and is usually more the result of bad policy than density in and of itself. San Francisco has about 6000 people/square km, and feels crowded. Paris has about 20,000 people/square km, and to me feels less crowded.

In Paris, they've taken the general development policy of building everything up to 6-8 stories, with commercial on the ground floor and residential above. Strikes me as a good way to pack in a lot of people without things feeling too crowded.
Do you think the people who formerly "shut down heterodox opinions, like flag burning or atheism or same-sex couples on TV" have become more heterodox in their views? In my experience, for the most part, they have not - quite the opposite, in fact, and the environment you are complaining about is largely their making, as it is that group that has been most successful in making political discourse less rational, and more dogmatic and personal (Columbia professors have almost no impact on public opinion and attitudes, no matter how wrong they are.)
Agreed. I absolutely love Swarm and think they have done a great job of an integrated solution.

However, I'm keen to see if Swarm becomes a later on top of Kubernetes instead of a separate piece if infrastructure.
Especially cause then you've got to jump 3 significant versions, to get another 9 months of reprieve.
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Similar experience here. For me, the changing point was meeting a coworker who wanted to study and work on personal projects with me. So, one suggestion I can make is trying to work in various companies and find a buddy that can help u find your interest.
You may need to follow up with them, last time I got in touch with them the ball was dropped somewhere along the line.
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Sure, but since GP seemed to be talking about militant hypersensitivity against wrongthink at the local level -- regardless of the danger of it being blown up into Internet spectacle, which is a different topic, and a scenario that is far more remote to the average person than being marched up to HR for wrongthink.
Most people are on mobile nowadays so IP is becoming increasingly worthless.
I use it while grocery shopping and such. Now half the time it wants to know if I want to edit a note locally or in iCloud or folders. Never have saved there so total waste of time. Don’t need fonts or brushes or any of that either. Notes MFs!
I think you are being naive.
> I think if most engineers took a step back and said "I don't know" and took some time to truly understand the requirements of the project they are working on they would find a truly elegant and maintainable solution that did not require tweaking your problem to fit a given solution.

> The general trend I see as I get older is that we are valuing the first to a solution rather than a more correct solution. Only to be stuck with a solution that requires constant care and work around.

This, 1000 times over. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to turn a project around that started without me and has gone down the path of using an inadequate (but mildly popular) open source tool instead of building something that's actually designed to solve our problem, not someone else's.
Amazon’s Alexa Blindsided Apple and Google
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So, is it the Austrian who is not picking up on the sarcasm? Or the German.
I was also there, and that was _one of the things_ that worried Jon Masters (the guy from Red Hat). In general, there seemed (to me) to be a consensus that as long as you had access to high-resolution timing (like RDTSC), and any form of speculation/prediction (even in in-order pipelines), then you could have exploits.

The recording will eventually be up at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMWw6rRoeSp..., but I can't recommend it. Unfortunately, Mr. Masters spent most of the ~75 minutes on introductory material (a fairly common mistake at EE380). The best discussion happened in the additional hour after the official end of the talk (and of the recording).

In fact, Pro Tip to people presenting at EE380 (and, for that matter, most "Company X wants to show us Y" meetings that I've attended): Take your slide deck, and delete the first 40% of it.
Only if you stored that value at the peak. If you stored that value a few years ago, it's not that big of a deal to be back to the price it was in November (which itself was pretty incredible)
Any chance you have anything publicly available on this? That sounds like an awesome application of Prolog.