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You know what I don't like about "Friday beers" in the workplace? It's not the beers. It's the fact that it's a company-scheduled and company-sanctioned event. The company is trying to (pick your favorite interpretation)...

...paternalistically manage our social lives

...tone-deafly intrude on them

...desperately be a part of them

...co-opt something cool and make it corporate

...do the adult equivalent of turning children's unstructured play time into a scheduled, paid-for playdate/lessons/"extracurriculars"

I'll pick and choose my friends and invite them to beers myself. In a bar. Away from the company offices. So we can talk shit about the management and people we don't like! What fun is life without the hating? (Well whatever, I just betrayed myself as a Gen Xer by being so forthright and gauche as to admit that I recreationally hate on people.)

My employer is not my friend. My friends, I will defend if they're in trouble for the next 40 years. My employer, I will ditch at the very first sign they're in trouble, or making trouble for me. Therefore I think maintaining a separation of "work life" from the private realm is appropriate. Of course, the more your "work is your life," and/or the more the company is actually yours, this applies less. But even in that case I would still recommend a healthy (hygienic) separation of concerns just like with any software system.
>Look at it this way: no one is complaining about the lack of girls in the blue collar industry.

Actually, I remember hearing quite a bit of complaining back when I was in middle and high school. However, it occurred alongside a concerted effort by the Province of Ontario to increase the supply of tradespeople at a time when there was a shortage of 'qualified' (read: certified by provincial licensing bodies) ones in Ontario, which led to exorbitant prices on associated goods and services. So, to be cynical, this could be much more about price correction than anything else.
I use Yahoo Auctions a lot because it’s the only place to get certain goods and sellers have the option to turn on a feature where every time someone bids with less than 5 minutes left, the timer extends to 5 minutes.
There are good reasons why we don't want to consider these sorts of pseudo-scientific claims for employment or other important matters.

Let's say we live in a society with mandatory DNA testing with publicly available results. Your DNA shows that you have a genetic marker which indicates a tendency towards anti-social behavior. It's fine though; despite the increased risk, you're actually a very level-headed and agreeable person.

You go apply for a job, and I apply for the same job. Perhaps your résumé is slightly stronger than mine, but the employer worries that you'll be difficult to get along with based not on your interview, but on your DNA test. I don't have the DNA markers for anti-social behavior that you have, though it turns out that I'm a bit of a jerk (not far-fetched; check my HN post history).

This would be wildly unfair to you. While the DNA marker means there's an increased chance that you don't get along well with other people, it does not define you. You've just been denied a job based on a thing that you didn't choose, there's nothing you can do to change it, and is actually incorrect in your specific case.

The good news is that we don't live in a world with mandatory public DNA testing. The bad news is that many minorities kind of do live in that world. They can't hide their ethnicity or sex. Just like how a DNA marker doesn't mean you're a jerk, it also doesn't mean you're less capable of being a good engineer. To make hiring decisions based on that kind of information would be horrifyingly immoral.
thumb...? no wonder you don't like it.

thumb swiping works fine for 3-word responses, anything more than that and it's the index finger that goes to work.
Ask HN: Mine cryptocurrencies for a personal usage?
Have an old laptop and wonder if it is viable to mine cryptocurrencies (BTC/BCH/ETH/XMR) just to pay for online services. Talking about $15-25 worth of cryptocurrencies a month. The sole purpose of the whole endeavor: privacy
Is there any project like Wikipedia or Linux package repositories making use of IPFS already? Where can I find out who and how to help?
It's fun to heap criticism on China's research. There's too many fraudulent results, as a culture they don't value out of the box thinking, ect. That kind of thinking hurts us, not China. But as a researcher in the US working with data collected from Human samples, I will attest that the bottleneck to progress are the regulations.

What we don't want are regulations that make it impossible to get the research started. What we want are regulations that ensure that new drugs and treatments sold on the markert actually work. This is exactly the opposite of the situation in the US today.
It doesn't make sense, in my opinion (though I could be ignorant). For classification, wouldn't it be better to stick to discrete probability mass functions?
QKD Satellites are a real technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Experiments_at_Space_S...
Amazon is developing a series based on Iain M. Banks’ novel Consider Phlebas
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People get dementia in their 50ies and 60ies, sometimes earlier. It's not the most common, but it happens. Also, the brain begins to degrade years before symptoms are noticed, usually subtle changes in behavior.
Privileges and responsibilities based on what? What privilege does a professor have, the ability to have a job even if he says something dumb?

It ain't the pay, and it sure isn't the social respect, so what exact privileges, and for that matter, responsibilities, do you expect "intellectuals" (which you're using to encompass universities and their staff, instead of people who happen to have degrees) to have?
> You’re selling both the motivations of researchers, and the practical rewards of that research short

You're selling the evidence short [1][2]. Commercial, political and basic research opportunities compete for resources from the same well. Competition increases the tap to basic research. That, in turn, increases output. (Up to a point [3].)

[1] http://www.jstor.org/stable/2094753?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...

[2] http://www.mba.intercol.edu/Entrepreneurship/UT%20Computer%2...

[3] http://eprints.rclis.org/23682/1/Current-socio-published-non...
> Also I think from your last paragraph you do agree that moderation often gets abused even if you don't agree with the individual points I raised?

I think it works well in aggregate, even though there are some individual bad votes. I think that the system is designed in a way which anticipates imperfection in individual acts but is designed to get good results on-balance, and I think obsessing about the individual bad votes is unproductive in most cases.
Suspending all of a registrar's domains when they're behind on fees is exactly the sort of thing that I expect ignorant bureaucrats at a small country ccTLD registry to do. It's probably run by some person in San Marino who has never seen the CLI of a router in their life. A number of small ccTLD are run by their host country's "ministry of communications" or local equivalent.
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Wait, what?

js-ipfs runs in the browser just fine.
See https://filemap.xyz/.
As a counterpoint, I'm involved with a private foundation that donates a total in the mid-six figures to various organizations each year (foundations like ours and probably Dropbox's have to donate 5% of their assets annually), and most of our donations are restricted in one way or another.

The way things usually go is we get interested in an organization and ask them if they need funding for any specific projects or initiatives this year, they send us a list of options, and we choose from the list. Usually we'll get an email later on about how the project went. If we don't care for any of the options but we still like the organization, we might make an unrestricted (albeit probably smaller) donation instead.

We do it this way for a lot of reasons, but one is that nonprofits can be as flawed as any corporation and in many cases they have all kinds of stuff they'd love to spend money on if they could that isn't directly related to their mission, or rather is related enough that they can book it as "program expenses" for the purposes of maintaining a five-star Charity Navigator rating when a reasonable person might look at it and see some amount of wastefulness. (That probably sounds more cynical than I actually feel about it, but it's a real issue.) Examples would be things like fancy office spaces and parties, questionable executive travel or compensation, optimizing for metrics that make the CEO sound good but aren't as impactful to the core mission as what they could be doing, etc.

Anecdotally, I'd say this is more commonly an issue with mid-sized organizations: huge charities usually have a big nest egg (like an endowment) to cover regular operating expenses, while very small charities are more likely to be entirely staffed by volunteers and thus have negligible overhead.

Anyway, we basically just want to know where our money's going. I can't speak to how gigantic foundations operate, but I'm sure there are a whole lot of individual donors and smaller foundations who do things the way we do (with no desire to claim credit).
You can certainly accumulate a mountain of debt and one should factor that in.

Not all degrees at all colleges make economic sense or have the same rate of return. That said, there are plenty of net present value calculations that include opportunity costs including in the links I have provided.

I want to correct a few things though.

Leaving the opportunity to take 2 years of community college and finish at a university aside, the most expensive public school in the USA (for in-state students) is the University of Pittsburgh at about $19k a year.

Your $200k debt for public education is either grossly exaggerated, is for out of state tuition and/or includes other factors such as housing and food (items that you would have had to purchase regardless of college status). In fact, the average graduation debt for those at public institutions was $25,550 not $200,000.

The opportunity cost to invest the cost of college is also unrealistic. Unless you are a Thiel Fellow, no one is going to loan/give you $200k to "play the market" as a high school graduate.

You do get an economic advantage of entering the workforce sooner than a college graduate, but that advantage lasts for about 10 years on average and by that time a college graduate typically catches the earnings of a high school graduate (cost of degree and opportunity included).

You might also be interested in this Brookings report comparing investing is stocks, bonds, or university

https://www.brookings.edu/research/where-is-the-best-place-t...
This is freakin' awesome:

A non-profit foundation with $50 million in the bank dedicated to providing usable encryption to the general public, with no other agenda other than the public good.

Go read the blog post by Moxie and Brian Acton (who is joining Signal). Very exciting!
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It seems to me, and the part of the story that’s missing, I would bet that the Administration applied on behalf of the “graduates” to the community college with a 100% acceptance rate.

I think what’s most impressive is how they’ve convinced themselves their fraud is actually all in the best interest of the students.
About "8. Dating". I think over last 10 years, online dating has not been solved at all.

Here are typical problems which nearly all dating sites run into:

1. Women got way more attention than men. Such environment stimulates aggressive strategies on both sides. Men must spend a lot of effort to reach as many women as possible. Women must filter out males as hard as possible. Men are discouraged to carefully read profile of women because probability of particular woman responding a message quite small. By the same reason, men are discouraged to write personalized first message. Such economics create hostile environment for both genders. Men got upset that women don't respond them or respond lazily (i.e. on your long sentence or question, she may just say - "nice"). Women got upset that they have inbox full of messages from men but nobody seems have deep interest in them. And I didn't even mention the case when lots of sexually unsatisfied men may harass women because it's cheap (i.e. no consequences). And just banning those men isn't viable long term solution. An apps like Tinder, where you can't write a message till you get mutual likes don't change dating economics at all.

2. Both genders are encouraged to participate in aggressive photos contest. I've had countless personal disappointments on the first date when I've seen completely different woman in real life than on pictures. They can use Photoshop, they can take selfies under specific angle. It's very often that pictures does not show real person at all.

3. Similarly, I've had countless personal disappointments because she turned to have completely different character in real life. The problem is that you used text messages in order to know each other. Dating is very subtle area and you cut off a lot of information if you rely only on text messages and 2D photos. There are much more information in non-verbal communication about your possible compatibility.

I've never seen a single serious attempt to solve this problem. Tinder doesn't even try to solve these problems, they just used mobile apps hype in order to get traction. I've seen the same model (mutual match before you can write message) in 2006.

Dating is area full of stereotypes and political correctness. It's easy to take side. Either feminist side and blame men for being sexual predators or you can blame women as being harsh filtering out men without giving any second thought.

Instead we should think for game theoretic data driven approach.

Now, we have advanced ML algorithms and big data. We can use ML, we can use game theory. Why not create online dating startup which encourages people to know each other well. And discourages aggressive behaviour on both sides. In other words, we should create totally different economics of online dating.

An online dating site which promotes quality over quantity and personalized behaviour.

P.S. I have no idea why I gather downvotes as problems with dating sites are very obvious. They are pretty hard to solve but it doesn't mean these problems do not exist.
> Over the lifetime of the project, there have only been an average of 2.3 full-time software developers, and the entire Signal team has never been more than 7 people.

This is awesome. Amazing what an excellent small team can build.
The US currently has the largest military in the entire world by a huge amount, almost three times that of China. The US could begin to reign in military spending without being vulnerable.
I don't have any anti-semitic feelings towards the jews. The jews here make up ~10K of the 20K upper class and I live in Punta Pacifica which is a jewish area. I consider their influence to be instrumental for preventing many of the policies that have severely tarnished other Latin American countries.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes to cure this disease given the incentive of pharmacy companies making money on drugs.
I'm also interested in what you learned, and curious as to why you decided to pull the plug.
My parents paid for everything for both my sister and I. I lived at home and commuted, she moved to the other side of the country and dormed/rented. I spent a 5th year in college because I didn't know what I wanted to do for a career.

Having a sibling (me) enrolled in higher education reduced what my parents paid for my sister's tuition by a huge amount, so I was kind of pressured into staying an extra year, but I would have done it anyway because I got to finish a second degree and I wasn't paying.

Funnily enough my sister and I majored in the same non-STEM major, but she went into it with the goal of working in finance from the start, and the main qualifier for that was the school she went to and not the degree itself, while I was kind of planning to go to law school afterwards but wasn't set on it.

Total costs for me for tuition were around $30k, since I did 2 years at community college (not by choice, my high school grades were abysmal). My parents also paid for nearly everything for both of us (food, bills, gas for me, dorm/rent for her, and anything we charged to credit cards within reason if we asked first). She went to an ivy league and I'd ballpark what my parents spent on her tuition alone at $200k. Living expenses were probably another $100k.

She started her career right out of college, I leeched off my parents for another three years and then decided I wanted to go into software development because two of my friends were able to work remotely full-time and that seemed amazing to me. That's honestly what sold me, though I haven't felt the need to find a remote position because I live right next to work and actually enjoy coming into the office.

I don't think college was worth it for me TBH, and when I say that, I mean me as an individual/person, not people in general. I barely made any friends due to commuting + being shy, didn't really enjoy it, I don't felt like I learnt anything I could not have learned on my own, made 0 friends that I still talk to or see on a regular basis today, and I don't think my degrees were a significant factor in starting or continuing my career.

When I have kids and start preparing them for college, I will definitely encourage them to live on-campus. I'll also do everything possible for them to be able to graduate without debt.
>I'm curious what you feel the cons are.

All the cons about living in an apartment/condo vs a single family home (which all basically boil down to a reduction in one's personal freedom on/in their own home).
Could this mean that Flock will be making a return?

https://signal.org/blog/flock/
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My experience from maintainer a package manager and trying to keep the ecosystem healthy — which mirrors my experience on lots of other systems with many users — is that anything your system allows people to do will be done at some point.
Go is not a language for "system-level features" in the first place. Its garbage collector largely precludes it from that in any modern context.

That it can't do something effectively does not mean that it shouldn't or didn't mean to. (And users can't really fix it, because hey, no generics. Sigh.)
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> You don't see the US taking territory and resources at gunpoint from Mexico...

Not in this century. It happened, though.

But I agree with your larger point. The US has not always been pure in how it used its power, but I don't trust China very far in terms of how it uses power. (Tibet, Vietnam, South China Sea, North Korea...)
Sure, how about the massive wave of increasing power and centralization at the heart of where money/wages originate: the finance sector. As well as declining union participation rates
To be fair ... a smaller TLD probably doesn't have enough transactions with a smallish registrar for that to become an incentive.
I think it is a non-problem, because the node is just a cache, just like an optic-fiber acts as a cache (you can actually compute the storage capacity of an optic-fiber of a given length using the bitrate and the speed of light). Owners of internet infrastructure (fiber&routers) are never sued for e.g. infringement of copyright, and infrastructure is exactly what an IPFS node is.
The part where at 30 you're deemed useless to society?
Medium isn't a respected platform in the first place.
However the top 1% also earn more income that the 90% of the bottom combined, doesn't it make sense that they pay equivalent amounts of tax? Paying a similar proportion is not exactly the same as "having their wallets out".

And I understand that if you are in that 1% then there is a lot of tax being paid… but there is even more being kept.

But you are 100% correct, there are many ways to transfer "wealth" from one generation to the next, inheritances are not the only way to do it. All of what you mention are absolutely ways that you can use the wealth of the parents to increase the chances of the child. You just need to look at the kids of the rulers in the old communist states to see that! And indeed, even in countries with high inheritance taxes, the richest families tend not to change much inter-generationally, I suspect largely for the reasons that you raise.
I honestly couldn't find many implementations of Naive Bayes out there. The famous ones are over engineered to use it as a learning too. I think people appreciate the fact that an article like this for its step-by-step approach.
> Why doesn't the universe doesn't follow something that might be described as an algorithm?

It doesn't matter if it does or doesn't, we don't have perfect knowledge of the universe or quantum events, therefore the universe is still unpredictable regardless if it is deterministic or not.

> Why are 'trends' are not cut and dry, and algorithms are?

> Is there something special about a cell that is not blueprintable and manufacturable?

It comes down to strategy.

The dominant historical strategy for computer functioning is exact, precise and reproducible instruction following of a tuned, high performance state machine. It is almost opposite of our untuned but general biological nature. For almost any species, survival is based on adaptation where our computer machinery has no inner process guiding it's adaptation, only we as technologists attempting to adapt the computer's strategy to the world. You could argue that business use of technology is the survival characteristic.

Biology on the other hand produces "suboptimal" systems that are very practical or relatively general, with many mechanism to absorb and compensate for errors or mistakes. We are just now teaching computers to adapt and compensate for specific situations with the hopes of generalizing the technique and it's a hard problem to solve. Not impossible, but we need to develop different methodologies for handling natural complexity.

I agree there probably isn't something fundamentally different as both systems coexist in the physical world, there is just lifetimes of practical learning and effort that must be done to merge the two strategies into a cohesive way forward.

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To be fair to our AI brethren, this is true of Humans too. I watch people game metrics every single day, and many of them fail spectacularly when presented with real world problems outside of their experience.
Does anyone know how this compares to superresolution using fractal image coding?
Hey clintavo - your use-case is exactly what we built Mux Video for.

One way to think about it: Mux is more like a EC2/S3-level service, while Vimeo is more like a Squarespace-level service.

We think Vimeo is a great platform for publishing video if you want a platform that goes all the way from CMS to streaming to player to sharing. But if you want to build video into your own application, you might want something a bit lower-level, closer to a web service, that lets you bring your own CMS, player, workflow, etc. Our primitive is just `video` and you can do whatever you want with it.
...you think MC Hammer predates SV? We started out as the site where transistors were made. That is also why the ground is so horrendously toxic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor