skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lack of security of employment makes teaching at low pay unattractive compared to industry at high pay. look at this posting [0]. nowhere does it say that this ladder is ever eligible for tenure, unlike (say) berkeley's lecturer SOE position.

"The Department of Computer Science at Stanford University invites applications for an educationally-focused faculty position. The responsibilities of the Assistant Professor of Computer Science Education will include: teaching classes (typically three or four courses, depending on class size, during the three quarters of the regular academic year), working to develop CS undergraduate curriculum, and involvement in the broader CS education community (e.g., research and/or leadership in CS education). The appointment has an initial term of three years with the possibility of reappointment of an additional three years. This position is eligible for promotion into the non-tenure (Teaching) faculty line. After completion of the five-year term as Associate Professor (Teaching), the candidate will be considered for promotion to Professor (Teaching). Experienced candidates with an already established reputation and national visibility in computer science education may apply for a senior appointment (Associate or Full Professor (Teaching)), commensurate with level of experience. Appointments at the level of Associate or Full Professor (Teaching) may be for a continuing term."

[0] https://cs.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty-opening

EDIT: interestingly, the "lecturer" position is at least eligible for SOE.

[1] https://cs.stanford.edu/jobs/lecturer-opening
> "Basically, it’s used everywhere that C is used and then some."

It's the other way around. Every JavaScript program is run by a C/C++ program.
Even if you negotiate with private parties, you are still dependent upon the system and should support the system.

What "system"? You don't need any "system" to negotiate with another private party for mutual benefit. I have something you want, you have something I want, we agree to trade—done. No one else can take any credit for that.

A fairly biased-sounding interpretation, particularly the "once may have benefitted".

I disagree, but it works just as well if you drop the "once may have" part and abbreviate it to "we think you benefitted from something we did without consulting you". Doing something which you think benefits someone else does not entitle you to compensation. Compensation must be negotiated and mutually agreed to in advance. If you don't have an agreement like that in place then you have effectively chosen to grant the other party a gift. You may argue that they should reciprocate (though they can reasonably disagree—what you see as beneficial to them may appear otherwise from their point of view) but you are not entitled to compensation for your unilateral action.

Let's imagine a group of people get together and agree to a set of rules. They agree on consequences for breaking those rules. Now you have a govt and taxation.

No, what you have at this point is a voluntary club with membership dues. You don't have government and taxation until you start enforcing those rules on people who never agreed to them. At that point your club turns into a criminal organization, similar to the Mafia. When your criminal organization grows a PR branch and starts claiming that it's criminal actions are "legitimate" and "for the public good", then you have become a government (but that doesn't mean you're no longer a criminal organization).

"But _I_ didn't choose these!" you declare. True. I support that people should be able to revoke their citizenship and leave.

Why should they leave? They have every right to stay. That citizenship was forced on you without your consent. You never agreed to give anything up as a condition of rejecting it.

you don't get to keep "your" land and "your" property when they ARE the result of the system you are rejecting

Your property rights are your by natural law, created by the mixing of labor and unowned land and subsequently transferred between private individuals by mutual consent, and not the result of any "system". No government has any right to take them away.

I don't understand the argument that governments are somehow inherently evil when they are the direct result of the very principles that argument is arguing in favor of.

Clearly you have no idea what principles those are, or you wouldn't have made that mistake. The one thing all governments have in common is that they employ force against people who never agreed to those rules and did not first use force against them. That is diametrically opposed to the principles that argument is in favor of—in particular the Non-Aggression Principle.
What China did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zones_of_Chin...

is very reproducible, by USA or anyone. They for decades had 10% GDP growth: BY REDUCING TAXES. Not something popular in California - due to Cali math(CA tax payer does not understand that lower taxes = higher tax revenue )
I'm still stuck on a 5-year old Galaxy Note 3 because it has a removable battery. The Note 4 was the last one to have a removable battery.

Eventually I'll have to give up and buy a new phone but literally nothing is released with a removable battery these days.

I don't care if my phone is 2mm thicker, I want the ability to replace the battery because it is a consumable item that will need replacement.

No company seems to want my $1k for a new phone.
> In short, if you want to feel happy about your life, hang out around people who earn less.

This doesn't match my experience at all. I feel best when I'm around those who are equal to me (in both income and wealth, because income alone is kind of less interesting).

It's an empathy/social norms thing. I work about half the year, sometimes less, and spend the rest of the year on a mix of personal projects and travel.

Explaining that to someone who works a checkout 50 hours a week, who learns their rota a week out, and might have a few weeks off in a year, is frustrating. (I was there, once).

It doesn't make me feel lucky - it makes me feel that most people are in a terrible place - it makes me unwilling to engage socially for fear of appearing an out of touch prat (the reality is that I'm almost too in-touch...!)
The town that’s found a potent cure for illness
Just because you don't have value in something doesn't mean nobody else does.
This is pretty spot on. A fun channel on Youtube to watch is BigClive where he tears the stuff from china apart and comments on it.

Here's one where he tears down a flicker flame lamp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KhtBA0EHDM
Shame they never made a second season.
> running out of tax havens

But they are just getting started moving into bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, in the nick of time
Not who you asked, but I notice a lot of lag when I'm searching/navigating/etc in Spotify. I understand that it's fetching a lot of this data from their servers, but the UI itself is also laggy when I'm browing local files, scrolling through playlists, etc, so it's not just serverside.

Not to mention the SSD-destroying & CPU-hogging habits of the application. That being said, I still use Spotify because I really value the music discovery and algorithms... and nobody else offers a streaming service with a dark theme :)
Read Amway vs (the world?) and you'll understand why Ackman
lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway#Pyramid_scheme_accusatio...
At Least 11 People Treated After Opening Suspicious Letter on Marine Corps Base
It may well have been Mixpanel. I applied to them and they sent me a non-Triplebyte quiz before having any human contact with me (not even a personal email). It was horribly designed; all edge-case language trivia and multiple choice design questions. Needless to say I didn't pass, and I will never go near them again.

Edit: fixed the formatting
> 1. That costs time and money.

False convictions have a gargantuan cost in time, money, and human suffering.

Justice is incredibly important. We need to get it right.
Awesome! Welcome to BMC, Garrett. Glad to be your first supporter on the platform.
Was this measured before the Bitcoin surge?
Why are they specifically targeting SAFTs? Aren’t those only available to accredited investors?
It was also the first time we had idle housewives become a prominent place in the workforce. We don't really have that luxury in this day and age.
Background: They introduced X-Pack by bundling it with the default distribution as a time-limited trial without explicitly stating that it is just a demo. People who did the update were bitten weeks later when it just stopped working because the demo license had expired. [Documentation of this was ridiculously bad and I only learned through this post that there apparently was some way to get a free license (maintaining an instance for a 501(c)(3), I just assume we'd have qualified).]

This looks like an attempt at fixing their karma balance, but until I've reviewed the EULA I am pessimistic about the value of "allowing for some derivative works". And I don't really get the "allowing for some [..] contribution". <zyn>Is a patch that improves performance by 10% welcome but I'll have to pay them to make them accept a patch that improves performance by 100%?</zyn>
I did that once and then rewrote the repo. Everything was fine for months on our team until another team merged their exact copy with new changes that broke what I was doing. Everyone senior left my team and it looked like I was doing nothing for 4 months. Communication should come first and the manager needs to step up.
> we feel like we cannot change anything about China and how it governs its people

Who are we to change anything about china? Talk about hubris. Considering the horrors and war crimes we committed against china for 150 years, I don't think china is interested on our input.

> After reading about the uigher concentration camps in China

That's as silly as a chinese person saying after reading about the native american "concentrations", they need to take a stand.

> I don’t want to help the government terrorize my friends in China anymore.

Your friends? If the government is "terrorizing" your friends, what are they doing in china?

Get off your high horse. We aren't the world police and we certainly aren't saints. Pretending we are "moral" while destabilizing countries and murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people is rather hypocritical.
The echo dot was the best selling product on amazon over Christmas. Luckily for Apple, I don’t think a $30 device will lock someone into an ecosystem.
Does that mean "Earth" used to be pronounced "Thearth"?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yearth
WP 7.5 let you run some native code if you tried hard enough. Manufacturer signing gave more permissions than developer signing, so it might have been possible? I'm not sure if native code (such as it was) was an addition to 7.5 or part of 7, though.
Yep, it's a race to the bottom for CAs to perform the absolute minimum work necessary, because otherwise competitors come in and make things easier for customers. Paying a premium for the services of a stricter CA currently has no benefits, since end-users have no way to evaluate whether a certificate is legitimate vs sloppily or maliciously issued by a different CA.

Funny thing about ccTLDs are that end-users might actually have some sort of opinion one way or the other about their trustworthyness, foreign or not. At least a tld is somewhat more visible and relatable in URLs compared to unfamiliar CA company names.
I hit this issue with a lot of video game/movie soundtracks (Battlestar Galactica and Starbound OSTs are some of my favorite programming music), and it's extremely frustrating. Even worse, Spotify's app doesn't work on my work VPN, forcing me to use the web app... which doesn't support listening to user tracks since Spotify won't store them in its own cloud.

I pay them $10/month for service, so why can't they reserve a couple gigs of space to store my files that they don't have in their library?
Under the Spotlight: Q and a with Celebrity Feline Sabrina Pound
I like the functionality of sending emails to myself, but I didn't want to go through someone else's server. I never found a camera that could do that so I had to build my own with an RPI
>>Hardly. Code can be intensely political (competing standards championed by competing companies, etc.).

The decision to make a particular segment of code the standard can be political, but the effective utilization of that code within a project once it has become the standard, has no political element to it.

>>Regulatory agencies are for the most part incredibly transparent organizations.

That is not the impression I get from the many complaints I've seen from those trying to navigate the regulatory framework. Of course I haven't done a comprehensive/rigorous study of this topic so my impression may not be an accurate representation of reality.

I also find it hard to believe that a legalistic (as opposed to programmatic) domain like regulatory enforcement does not have a significant human element that cannot be fully articulated in formal notices and procedures.

>>And your speculation is based on?

On the fact that there is a very large rent-seeking opportunity in enacting regulatory barriers to entry, as demonstrated by the impact regulations have on income inequality (which is a consequence of economic rent accruing to those at the top of the industry ladder).
Unless your GPA is super impressive, I'd argue it's not worth bragging about at all. A 3.2 is fine when you're hunting for your first real job. After you've got work experience, I doubt many would care about a GPA. When people did really well, you'll sometimes here them say "I graduated summa cum laude" instead of specifically referencing their GPA.
What's the normal social context for discovering music? I ask this as someone who has done 99%+ of my music discovery in the last 5 years privately.
My favorite: "How Differential Gear works" (1930s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JhruinbWc&t=1m50s
What a bizarre defense. Do they think this makes them look...better?

The core issue is 1) they had the keys at all 2) they decided to compromise them by emailing them DigiCert

Saying "hey, we did nothing wrong, all we did is email the keys we had to DigiCert" just isn't a very compelling defense to claims they had the keys and emailed them to DigiCert. More like a "total admission of guilt" than a defense, really.
"even in research"? I agree with everything but this last point. Research is almost exclusively dominated by doctoral graduates - it wouldn't be reasonable to expect to land in a research position without a graduate degree.
Xanax turns people into useless dopes. Benzo's are just bad news. Wellbutrin is an option if you don't mind being numb past the point of zombie-hood.
This app is simply amazing. Thank you!

Are you worried about any Spotify terms of service issues?
My prior experience is the top comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830444

Further down the comment thread, the interviewer came on and shared information about my interview (essentially because I called them out for rude and smug - which IMO they were).
Nobody who has depth in the business would create keypairs online if they could avoid it. So I ask myself if key escrow requirements "back then" permitted this kind of engagement with an agent, on behalf of government or other constrained PKI contexts where escrow was a requirement.

If its just "for your convenience" I would have walked off this keypair years ago.

Private key generated for me one line and held in your keystore? No thank you.
The name is not very google friendly. It took me a bit longer than I would have liked to find examples for my specific use-case.
Why not put the world under a United States of the World to maximize the number of people benefiting from tribalism then? Or else why keep California in the union if what's good for California isn't necessarily good for the rest of America?
Article discussing testing software back in 1976

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=807721

No real good excuse for not actually testing systems that can take or save lives.
That's a level you can contribute to by being frugal. It's tough to get to but easier than you'd think. The barriers to moving to this level tend to be as much social and psychological as financial e.g. families, mortgages, need for security.

The next level above financial independence is financial freedom (you can just get whatever you want, from shoes to houses) - off the top of my head I would guess this is probably around the 0.01%, which would be about 32k people in the USA. As an example of freedom, these people can buy nationality and avoid immigration limitations (going rate is ~$1-5m).

The article is way off just comparing salaries. There are 3 social classes in terms of having a meaningful lifestyle distinction - those who have to work for someone else, those who don't, and those who have full freedom to decide where they go and what they do each day. All they did was compare a bunch of people in the same social class (somewhat shockingly the Romans considered this equivalent to a slave class).
Misconceptions at work:

If a hypothetical Bad Guy has got a different Certificate for my site they cannot "quietly snoop on traffic". They have to do an active Man-in-the-middle attack on each connection or else it's completely opaque to them. Each of the clients they do this to receives a free Smoking Gun, a copy of their illegitimate certificate showing who signed it and when. In a future where CT policy enforcement is completed (not yet but maybe soon) they must also have logged the certificate so that everybody can see it, or it won't work.

If the hypothetical Bad Guy has my Private Key, they can quietly snoop traffic using ciphersuites which lack "Forward Secrecy" although no popular browser will choose this unless forced to, and in TLS 1.3 Forward Secrecy is mandatory.

If the Bad Guy has my Private Key and is willing to do a Man-in-the-middle attack the same applies as above, except that I don't learn anything from Certificate Transparency since they can use my cert as they know the key for it.
7.0, on a couple year-old HTC. Thanks for reminding me...HTC seems to have stopped security updates at the 2 year mark. It's probably time to look into running LineageOS on the sucker.
You can do it. The question is whether you should if you can avoid it.

When writing a shell script or makefile to deal with repetitive tasks if is easier to assume some things.
Can Yocto or CMake build QNX systems or bare-metal binaries with TI's compiler? The tool I'm looking for is Make because Make gives me a ton of flexibility to build whatever freaky combination of binaries might go into whatever product I'm working on, and then combine those binaries into a system image.

The point I'm trying to make is that every build system except Make solves a really specific class of build problem(building applications, or building Linux systems using GCC) and then pretentiously claims to support everything that matters. What you're actually getting is a small sliver of what you might need in my world.

This article is another example of how Make can do something really unexpected by providing really simple features and letting you decide what matters to you. I've yet to see another build system that is as generally useful.
In 6.3, telemetry (‘phone home’) is an opt-in only feature for both the free and paid components of X-Pack. We won’t be tracking any identification, so even if users opt-in to telemetry, there is no way to turn that into a sales strategy.

Suing users is a pretty terrible business practice and not, at all, a funnel creation opportunity.

Re. License, there are a few FAQs on https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open#faq that may help clear up any misunderstandings. Free features are free and governed by the Elastic EULA but are enabled by default. Paid features are available through an opt-in trial and, if they help solve a problem, can be purchased.

<disclaimer: I work at Elastic in Developer Relations>
I definitely think Gulp and Webpack have a place. Where you have to write a Makefile fresh every time for every type of project, Gulp and Webpack come prepared with JS-specific stuff. That's perfect for a throwaway project or a small codebase where build performance and maintenance really don't matter.

My issue is that people who need serious solutions forgo Make because "tabs, man", or because Webpack has pretty console output.
5000 a month

60,000 a year

0.01714 = 60,000 / 3,500,500

OR

1.714%
Technically true, but I'm kind of sick of seeing it. The more time I spend online, the more nauseated I feel when I read people writing serious documents who can't even be civil.

If either of the criticism articles that I saw links to here were actually posted as comments on HN, dang would be asking them to reword their criticisms to be less hostile and aggressive.
If anything, reading about it from the 13f attracts more attention. ( i.e Buffet), but for Bill and Mr.Dalio, does not seem to be working out.
Nope, I'm afraid BMC won't work for such a use-case. Neat idea with the Starbucks feature, BTW :)
FYI, the email signup button on the Home page reads: "Keep me updat"
I dunno, it seems like the learning process of putting together a series of unsuccessful promo packages might be the exact training you need to become "senior".

If the (good) work you did wasn't reflected in the metrics, then you need to figure out how to change the metrics, or change what you work on.

There's nothing inherently scummy or "political" about influencing the collective direction: identify problems, come up with good ideas for solutions and how to measure (partial) success, and talk it over with your team and manager around the time goals are being set. People are biased, distracted, and fallible, but generally recognize good ideas when they are communicated clearly.

If you're not good at documenting your successes, reflect on what is and isn't getting documented, and find ways to set yourself up for success the next time. Talk to people who've gotten the promotion you want, and figure out what you've missed.

Learning to independently identify problems, devise solutions, measure success, document success, and advocate for your ideas and yourself are essential skills for the human organizational / business part of writing code for a living. This is true whether you work on your own, at a startup, or at a bigco like Google.

Good luck! :-)
I'm sorry to hear it was painful to pay us...I wish that wasn't the case.

If you want, I'd be happy to talk more about it so that we can understand where we can improve. Feel free to email me tyler.hannan<at>elastic.co

<disclaimer: I work at Elastic in Developer Relations>
Brushing off these things as simply the affairs of uneducated people is itself an uneducated thing to do. Understanding is the first step in their non-recurrence. Assuming that’s what you’re after.
One thing to keep in mind, though, is that Patreon has tons of existing users. I'd imagine there's a lot less friction to adding a pledge to a new person if you're already on the platform and they have your payment info, than if you need to ask them to sign up for a new platform which they might not have heard of before.
Why unenforceable?
doesn't matter when there is always a fresh new grad who doesn't know any better waiting to take your place
The other trick China used is that it started with a very small economy. Per capita GDP is still less than $10,000 per person, compared to $56,000 in California.

Have you done your homework on your tax claim? Because it isn't actually guaranteed that lower tax rates will lead to higher tax revenue, it depends on the specifics of the tax regime and proposed cut.
I'd say it's much better than quite good, they're phenomenally better. The jump from 6 to X for me was huge.