skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you're not aware, MS Excel already does this.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/connect-to-a-web-pa...
Please stop forcing business decisions on engineers.

Especially given https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241
I'd say meson is the most direct competitor. They don't mention it in the FAQ though.

http://mesonbuild.com/
We’re pleasure-seeking animals with an incredibly strong sex drive. I don’t see how that’s remotely comparable to drinking one of a vast array of tasty intoxicants.
regarding the comments about bug killed people versus weapon killed people.

There is no 1 answer, this argument is a result of black-white/yes-no/us-them single point of blame thinking. and it's terrible.

the bug contributed to the loss of life.
Many big tech co’s have ‘distrectionary equity’ awards exactly for this.

One off large stock grants. Enough to keep your pay ‘up’ above your band for a few years
You can do half and half. You don't have to game everything to make sure it boosts your metrics, but you also have to make sure you're not doing nothing that boosts your metrics.
Most people will admit that laws are made up; that they are only good insofar as they produce a good society; that laws serve society, rather than society existing to serve law.

Money is a little harder, but IME most people eventually acknowledge that the value of money is simply that we all acknowledge it has value.

Whether people admit that nations are "made up" depends on how you press the point. That the precise boundaries of nations are a product of messy history rather than some ideal truth, most people will admit. But most people will push back if you insist on a broad sense of "made up"; for example, that no privilege ought to be given to "what's good for the country" in national policy, but only what is good for humanity, is a fairly unusual position.

Consider Kennedy's famous line, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". To someone who thinks countries are made up, this is nonsense. Countries are valuable if they serve humanity, not vice-versa.

People are least likely to admit that their own religion is made-up; almost all religions claim legitimacy by asserting they reveal some sort of fundamental truth.
>Where is the extra value?

dry answer: some people (whether through different preferences, or even exposure to advertising) think that the convenience offered by a smartbulb is worth the $16.25 (or whatever) price. you might not place that much value in that, but obviously enough people do that it's a viable market. it's the same logic why luxury [anything] exists.
When I briefly attended church in Germany while hosting games at home for my husband who still played, one gamer consistently got up on very little sleep to go to church on Sunday morning. Where I would then listen to the preachers talk about what evil pieces of shit we were.

Meanwhile, every single gamer who left Germany came to my apartment to tearfully say goodbye because gaming at my apartment was an escape from eating at the mess hall and getting drunk at bars. It was the only thing that kept them sane and not an alcoholic.

I don't know about most gaming groups, but where I have been, it's a bastion of civilization in an otherwise cold, cruel world.
Here are some arguments in favor of national identity being "real": (as in, likely to arise in any culture, perhaps in any species that's able - in a Chomsky recursion sort of way)

- You have a greater interest in reaching consensus with people in the same democracy as you, because their votes determine the laws you follow and vice versa.

- People who live in the same country as you fund the same programs and projects, and therefore share with you some sense of ownership over space programs, universal healthcare, or whatever else your government is spending money on.

- People who live in the same (democratic) country are co-responsible with you for whatever good or evil your government does. (See: points one and two.) It's not a direct, and the responsibility is spread thin, but however little power Americans have over US actions, foreign nationals have even less!

- Game theory explains a lot of this. National identity isn't an arbitrary fiction, nor an arbitrary reality. You can think it's good or bad, but it's here for reasons stouter than "someone came up with it."
I agree.. even two years ago we had too many PhDs.
I think this is right, otherwise the commintern cannot have existed.
Are you referring to genetic heritability? If so, you might not be aware that the common ancestors of all modern humans left the African subcontinent only 10s of thousands of years ago? [1] Or perhaps you weren't aware of pedigree collapse [2], which proves that nearly all people share ancestry in the more recent past? Or are you arguing that nations as we define them today are either genetically unique, or you have picked an arbitrary point in the time where you declare it as such (which would be ... made up)?

Perhaps instead you meant cultural heritability, like language, foods, etc? The problem is that culture isn't carried in the genes, and disperses quite freely across the world, from ancient to modern times, and cultures actively spread and market their traits over geographic and even linguistic boundaries, so culture is not a very good feature to use to define a nation via heritability.

Human identity has been complex and probably confusing since the first time identity was contemplated, so we invented models like "nation" to serve our political ends (usually to mobilize members of one "nation" against other "nations").

[1] https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/

[2] https://curiosity.com/topics/everyone-on-earth-is-related-cu...
> I don't know what it will take to change the tide...

If student tuition revenue vastly outweighs research grant funding revenue, then the students as an aggregate have the leverage to demand the change to better teaching outcomes through re-allocation of their high tuition costs to better teaching compensation. As for whether or not students in aggregate can sufficiently organize and pursue such a demand however, is an entirely different kettle of fish.

Considering current revenue split [1], I don't see that leverage emerging anytime soon. Furthermore, much of what currently passes for "good teaching" evaluations in the short-term (a few years) gets compressed down to the signaling function yielded by a university diploma, or gamified teaching staff popularity rankings. No real substitute solution than putting in the grind over a long period of time to embed quality into the system through lots of changes small and large, but donors don't like to hear that message.

[1] https://www.amacad.org/content/publications/pubContent.aspx?...
Well, that's why anecdotal evidence is not research. ;)

You are absolutely correct, though: I'm a strong candidate. But when I said that I knew people who were applying to 40, 60, and even 100 positions, those, too, are from top schools.

When I say that schools are only receiving dozens of applications (50-70), those are also top schools.

What I didn't say was that, due to my personal network, I also know of dozens of smaller schools (who aren't advertizing on the CRA job board, for example) who are desperate to find good applicants. I have been contacted by them, as have some of my collegues.

I also happen to know that many of the applicants are international, who are (presumably) looking for a ticket to the US, because they don't have any relevant experience. (Obviously, there are many good international applicants, too!)

My personal experience is that this is a good year to be looking for an academic job. The link just confirmed my personal experience.
Why do you suppose the New York Times wants us to believe something like this?
A national identity is much younger than its nation, though.
That's not the definition of faith, really. Faith can mean belief and it can mean trust (often the former is an expression of the latter). What you mean is blind faith, which is pejorative. When it comes to religion (Chistianity specifically), the recorded accounts of Jesus' miracles and his resurrection function as historical evidence of his divinity.

What you describe is more like fideism.
Where is the line? Do you want to sit in an interrogation room for a few hours before you rent a U-Haul?
well you should have no problem getting into Google then
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I think you are misunderstanding the definition of "Work for yourself" in this context.

I believe it more resonates with the fact that your livelihood does not depend on a SINGLE SOURCE.

Sure, a business is responsible for it's clients (notice the plural here), and if some of them leave, it may lose profit, yet it does not completely goes under.

Whereas an employee is fully at the mercy of the employer.
Sure! I will do it.
But there's also "presumed" and "did not think" in there. When there's a problem with your killing device you probably shouldn't use it until you've clarified what the problem is and don't just assume your end users will use it correctly.

That's like saying "It's fine, the critical vulnerability patch will be applied on reboot", while in reality all your users just suspend to disk and move that annoying reboot nag window behind the task bar where it's out of sight.
And it now comes with Hulu for free! (At least in the US)
IIRC intersubjective refers to coordinated interpretations of scientific measurement. If you make two measurements of course they aren't exactly the same, ever, and every measurement is not perfectly objective anyways (you are using your subjective judgment to say that that number from the readout is a 3 and not a 4).

You could include in your list:

-Science
Don't think only of the political angle. Think of your work as a product that needs clients, value, exposure, and which has to compete in a crowded market against similar products from other people. Understand the balance between work that is pleasurable to perform (challenging problems, etc) and work that others find valuable. Don't be cynical about all this, lest you become a dick (there are hints of this in the OP).

Simply be realistic: the company will not be perfect, will not be accurate in assessing value, but it will not necessarily be evil about it. It will simply be imperfect, just like anyone else including yourself. There are always reasons why things work the way they do. The ability to understand and work with those reasons is a valuable skill that a CS program will not teach you.
The larger the company, the more process overhead there is.

It's the process overhead that most people complain about. Instead of adding value to the company, much of your time is spent on managing process for the sake of process.

For example, defining your work to maximize the chance of promotion may only correlate with company value.
That's a worthwhile clarification - thank you. While that's certainly true in the strict sense, I remain bemused.
It's a shame we moved a lot of the US industrial base to an authoritarian and potentially hostile country like China. A bit scary to think of the generation or two of people who won't have the knowledge to manufacture things should they ever need to because of conflict in some form. Seems like it reduces any leverage the US has for holding China accountable for much that it does.
Maybe it's an issue of LCD backlighting?

The backlight has to be strong enough to supply the highest R,G, or B value, while the lower values have light blocked off (by polarization) and turned into heat.

When the LCD display shades of grey, the RGB values are more likely to be in tandem, so maybe you can get the same final brightness coming out with fewer photons being overproduced at the start.
> The defining characteristic of a nation is a group of people tied by birth

No, the defining characteristic of a nation is a group of people united by a shared identity grounded in any or all of descent, culture, history, or language.

> and anyone with a high school or better understanding of English etymology should know that.

Anyone with a high school or better knowledge of language should know that etymology may suggest meaning, but is not a reliable guide to it.
Haha! Good call. I actually almost sent you an Amazon link to it but thought that too ironic ;-)
Obviously you have never worked at any BigCo in the Valley.
current to whom ? no thanks to you
Fair enough, I'm not very steeped in the intricacies of Lord of the Rings. I got the feeling that it was the nature of their power and omniscience that corrupted most individuals who used them, sort of like the Ring, but that could be completely wrong.
Indeed, after a point, working is not motivated by wealth - I know several cases of people that are wealthy and don't NEED to work, but they're in high-power positions and they don't want to leave that.

One of them was the president of an insurance company and he was ousted in a Machiavellian political maneuver, because he fully expected to hold that position until his health failed him or he died at the post.

You can see it in the current crop of 80-year old politicians in my country. One of them wants to go up for re-election and he would be in power until he was 90 years old...
Tribalism seems to be pretty animalistic. I assume superstitious behavior is common too, who knows what kind of internal barking goes on when the bells ring.
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thanks, a little brief but thanks :)
“Going public”, not gone public. Dropbox, Spotify, Blue Apron, Cloudera, Twilio, Uber (expected) are not profitable.
The problem was twofold:

- Internal politics and the "old school" symbian developers not buying into this ecosystem

- MeeGo/Maemo was more worried with Free Software "circle self pleasing" and rewriting stuff every couple of months than actually shipping a product

How did Android approach the same problem? Kept the kernel and replaced X and most of userspace with dedicated libraries and binaries. Focused on shipping a product (first Android versions were very poor) and after the iPhone came focused on making it similar.
It's called polemic. Just because something is polemical doesn't mean it is untrue or unsound. Tone does not discredit content.
On average does anyone know how many GSU's Google is offering these days for a Senior (L5) engineer?

(either new Senior hire, or joined Google within the past 2 years)
Maybe he is defining Nation separate from State, like Tamils or Kurds are a Nation without a state.
I'm pretty confident that the choice of Windows Phone over Android really didn't have to do with the UI, or even with Elop's past Microsoft connections: it had to do with services. Nokia wanted to bring their own services to the platform, especially relating to maps and navigation, and they wanted to have the new OS vendor be a full branded partner. With Google, that was an either/or choice: they could have used AOSP and their own services, but they wouldn't get the Android branding and Google's support. Microsoft was more willing to play ball.

Personally, I think they should have gone with AOSP and leveraged Qt: by the end of 2010, they'd already gotten their two operating systems (Symbian and MeeGo) to a point where it wasn't a lot of work to recompile applications for one to run on the other. (N.B.: I don't know how much of this work ever actually made it out of Nokia. I was working there in 2010, when all of this was going down.) Given that Qt already ran on Android, IIRC, it might not have been that much work to do the same thing on top of AOSP, producing a Nokia-specific release that could run Android software and provide a clear path forward for Symbian users and developers. I was a little shocked that they didn't release a Qt compatibility layer for Windows Phone, instead choosing to pretty much leave their existing developer community on that burning platform.

The Lumias did ship too late, but I think the previous commenter who referred to the "Osborne Effect" has it right; a Nokia that had appeared firmly committed to Symbian and forging a bridge from the existing to the forthcoming generation might have fared considerably better. The Nokia N8 and N9 should have been supported as flagships rather than sort of apologetically shoved out the door with "DEAD PHONE WALKING" written on the boxes. On a practical level, this might not have saved them (especially if they'd stuck with Windows Phone, which it turned out the market really hadn't been waiting for after all), but it might have given them a fighting chance.

I don't think Nokia would have tried to downscale itself either way, by the way -- they'd have kept their network equipment division, and might have even kept their mapping division. They'd balanced that with consumer mobile hardware for years before that, after all; I don't see why they couldn't have kept doing that with Android devices.
If it came to violence then disaster would already have struck, but there is a deterrent effect when a statistically significant portion of your population would fight to prevent it. The cost moves from, “pass some laws, enforce as usual,” to “commit to atrocity, and massive civilian losses.”
As far as I know the Ubuntu port was made by Canonical and is a Snap package, not an Electron app.
- corporations

- governments
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should."

- Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park
Wyzecam
Foscam (as long as you can DNS sinkhole the phoning home to China uPnP/tunneling "easy setup" portion) IP cameras and cameras compatible with the Synology NAS DS Camera function.

IP Cameras that are RTSP and TinyCamera or BlueIris compatible.
So basically the way people ‘allocated’ memory in small assembly programs.
> I have no illusions about how that war would end of course... tanks and B-52’s reliably best handguns and rifles.

Plenty of US adversaries have met these odds and held their own. Aside from some targeted campaigns to eradicate individuals, we haven't truly "won" any notable military conflict since 1945.

IEDs tend to level the playing field, but see how far you get trying to build or acquire those today. You'd be among the first wave of dissidents swept up in the ML-aided dragnet looking for purchasers of batteries and fertilizer.
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I'm absolutely not being critical of any of this. I think it's pseudo-magical that we've built a moderately-functional society out of 10 billion humans spread over an entire planet.
Perhaps generic for the kinds of books Oprah endorses, but given the reviewer's demonstration of Pinker's ignorance, is a laughably pretentious title.
The idea is that you want the people on the leading edge teaching, otherwise you'll end up with the same problem that colleges have where faculty may be good at teaching, but don't update their knowledge and track state of the art.

I'm not at all against colleges and trade schools, they have their place, but I don't agree that we should turn our universities into into them. It's perfectly fine to have a separation. Traditionally colleges and trade schools have been focused on training a workforce, and universities have been places to go to get a broader, but not necessarily trade focused education.

There are many other complaints about university education that essentially boil down to people wishing they were trade schools. E.g. why don't they teach popular industry language X? Why don't they teach unit testing, agile programming, etc?

Without having research faculty doing the teaching, I think you lose what traditionally has been the strength of a university education: teachers with state of the art knowledge teaching people to push the boundaries of how they think.
A lot of this is common sense to me. I've seen the C++ part play out in practice many times. C++ is an easy example because it requires a lot of effort and time investment in order for someone to be truly good at it. The same is not true for Javascript, Python, Ruby and so on which is why people have a way more relaxed attitude ping-ponging (or chasing the next shiny thing that comes along) amongst them.

The way it usually happens is that a smart person who has made big multi-year investments and climbed the proficiency ladder crumbles into narrow-mindedness and rigidity of thought when one points out to him that the language he's extremely good at is a bad fit for the problem at hand. If an attempt is made to solve it, with C++, that later turns out bad, the situation gets even worse. I've seen people lash out at everyone around them, using any excuse they can find so that they can keep a consistent worldview in their minds, so that their model doesn't come apart.

To question the foundations of one's knowledge is a hard thing to do, especially when it leads to iconoclastic outcomes. The vast majority of people I've encountered in personal and professional life would do anything to stay in their own manufactured reality bubbles rather than deal with cognitive dissonance. Engineers are as prone to this as any other group I've ever come across.
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>Both the German parliamentary committee that oversees the intelligence agencies, and the digital committee scheduled extraordinary meetings to discuss the attack on Thursday, according to parliamentary sources

This is basically all the information contained in the article, there are no details regarding the hack or it's target. Reuters says that German press is blaming APT28, i.e "Fancy Bear".

edit: Here's a German article with more details, citing "sources" http://www.dpa-international.com/topic/sources-foreign-hacke...

>The hack appears to have originated from the APT28 cyberespionage group

>The group used malicious software to target German federal agencies, including the foreign and defence ministries

>Hackers were able to steal data

>The infiltration likely lasted more than a year.
Not quite... In Brave New World there is a drug called "soma" that is an opium for the masses; it's rationed by the government. The subplot around soma focuses more on trying to get people to not take it so that their minds can be freed.
> …I think that many of these publishers simply would never have existed/gained traction without Facebook. Facebook made it (comparatively) very, very easy to get eyes on their articles…

This is a good point that may not be universally understood. Just as Facebook can suppress certain content when it's useful for them, they also artificially "boost" content when it's useful for them.

For example, when Facebook Live was introduced you could get very high "reach" numbers (compared to your "normal" reach) simply by using this new feature that Facebook wanted to promote.