skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Right, and if the professor of the intro class decided they didn't want to teach Java, and would prefer C++, they'd "switch" over to it... I don't see the confusion. C++ isn't the only language in the entire school, this is all about one intro class.
An exploration of China's dramatic longevity increase under Mao
This is garbage.

A drop in the number of deaths might just demonstrate an improvement in emergency medical procedures.
Is China seeking “quantum surprise?'
Blockchain for the enterprise – white paper [pdf] with companion Java and C# repos
Impediments with Policy Interventions to Foster Cybersecurity
I don't like the idea of letting a government body regulate how a communications company how to run their business.

Ignoring the moral implications of holding a gun to a business owner's head and forcing them to run their business the way you want, are we not opening up the doors for legitimate censorship down the line?

If we're concerned about world leaders making official pronouncements on Twitter, why not just dictate that they don't do that and instead utilize a different platform? Something decentralized preferably.
> If the vehicle is a fixed cost for the person regardless of whether or not they are a driver

What? Vehicles are clearly not fixed cost, they are assets that deprecate in value from use. There is some deprecation from age, but by far the determinant of value is miles driven and damage from use.

Every mile you drive for Uber is costing you money in lower resale value of your vehicle, both from the miles you add to it and from the probability of damaging the vehicle in an accident.
Originally, the distinction was that Nassim Tableb literally had skin in the game via his hedge fund that essentially invested in the Black Swan strategy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirica_Capital)

Now it seems he wants to be a full-time author (I wasn't seeing purchasing a book as purchasing advice as much as reading a literary work from someone I admire.)
Yes, but the government could have answered the question with a real investigation at the time, while the other parties could not. At any rate, whenever you use the military to do what riot police should be doing instead (China lacked non-lethal riot suppression capabilities at the time), it is going to be very messy.
Speaking as a PhD student, I think everyone having a PhD would be an extreme net negative on society -- even putting aside questions of opportunity cost or social signaling. PhD study hyper-specializes people, which is important for getting some scientific progress done, but I think it would make it more difficult for people to relate to each other and make valuable broad-minded connections outside of their field.

But I do think that the social signalling aspect is the dominant factor for most people's decision to get higher education. Imagine a world in which it was mandated that degrees were not allowed to be made public, to employers or anyone, and the presence or absence of a formal degree was not allowed to be a deciding factor in employment. Employers would likely find informal proxies to test for skills (either basic competence or specialized knowledge). Would-be students probably wouldn't go to college. And there's nothing wrong with that, because most jobs -- and most people's lives -- don't need the kind of degreed education that colleges are providing.
Equifax expects $200M in breach-related costs in 2018
Certainly misplaced! It was late, and somehow I scrambled IBM Research and Intel. I was thinking about how Intel's marketing is generally quite bad, whether it's unfair benchmarks or not knowing which products to actually push.

Please disregard.
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Ask HN: Do you feel you got value from your degree?
For the last few months, I've been contemplating dropping out of university.

I'm currently a first year in a British university, and I'm studying computer science. I've been programming for a long time, starting long before I started uni.

During my first semester, I started working for a software development company - I spent more time there than I do at uni.

I honestly feel like I'm wasting my time going to lectures and tutorials, as 99% of the time I learn very little, and pay £9250 a year for the priviledge.

So, this leads me to wonder: how many people here feel like they actually gained value out of their degree, other than something to get them past gatekeeping at a company?
Even if education were entirely a matter of signalling (which obviously isn't true) then it would still be a perfectly good personal investment in that it would get you a better job than you would have otherwise. It would just be social subsidies of it that would be consumption rather than investment.
Interestingly the NRA national convention reduces gun injuries everywhere else: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-28/for-these...
Not everything supports U2F, but plenty of things do, many of them high value services:

http://www.dongleauth.info/
This speed looks unreasonable ;)
As a machinist mechanic by trade, higher education needs some serious reform. The idea that youre going to spend four years of your life generating an insurmountable debt only to arrive without a job is bleak. Some of these degrees arent just useless, theyre outright goddamn predatory.

The saddest moment in my career was realizing my boss makes a fraction of what I make after he pays his student loans. He still had to pay those loans when the recession hit and he was out of a job for 3 years. That kind of pressure with a wife and kids drives a man to crawl into a bottle.
I had same experience with shoulder surgery. No lies nor pressure to have surgery - was my choice since I figured "it couldn't make things worse". I was wrong. I think that everyone considering orthopedic surgery should seriously evaluate the data on success rates. My plan is to wait another five or ten years and hope that the state-of-the-art is improved and then hopefully have my shoulder fixed.
Awesome, thanks - I just got bingo!

I don't know if you're aware but articles can move off the front page because people (like me) flag them (as I did). If enough people flag it, off it goes.

Sometimes the article sticks around, and obviously mine was a minority voice. Sometimes it disappears, probably because, I expect, most people are like me: we've seen this stuff discussed before, and the discussions are, on average, poison - or, worse, repetitive and dull.

So, flag. Flag, flag, flag. (That's what I think to myself, anyway. Actually, I only get the option of flagging it the once.) I make no bones about this, and I won't apologize for my actions, because I have nothing to apologize for. I vote according to my principles and mine alone. If these principles happen to be shared by others, great. If not, that's fine too. Democracy in action.

(Well... I do admit that I give the discussions a quick skim, just on the off-chance I might see tptacek in action. My guilty pleasure! There's also the chance that somebody might actually, you know, make a good point, but I don't worry too much about that because my experience is that the risk is very low...)
Analysis of SSL Certificate Reissues and Revocations in the Wake of Heartbleed
Doctors are _really_ bad at aligning the interests of their patient and their employer. So who's to say that the risks of going to the doctor are less than the risks of self diagnosing?

Off the top of my head I know two family members who were murdered because they did go to the doctor for symptoms that were non-threatening, and instead received an opioid addiction and premature death.
I don't know about the
U.S. but in Australia there are strict rules about 'sham contracting'. To be treated as an independent contractor you can't get more than 80% of your income from any one source. If you 'contract' to just one employer you're an employee for both tax purposes and protections.
I would argue heart disease being the leading cause of death in many 'developed' countries strongly indicates that we, as a society, do not have control over it.
Also Russia.

Poor countries with excellent education systems usually end up with brain drain - their education budget subsidizing the richer countries their smartest citizens inevitably flee to.
IIRC there was a wave of school shootings in 1992-96, almost a dozen total; Columbine was the worst of them in terms of casualties, but in some ways just the culmination of a pattern. I don't know why you would start counting _after_ 1996.
Tech Talk: On-Chip Variation
It’s a fair argument, but of the dozens of examples I’m personally aware of, from the tiniest and newest galleries to the very biggest blue chip ones, the 50% split basically never varies. The galleries compete on other things including attending art fairs (where many galleries do most of their sales), controlling access to networks of collectors, good exhibition spaces, money and assistance to send works to museums and other non-commercial shows which raise the artist’s profile, insurance and storage of works, fancy dinners after openings, and advances to cover production costs.

I know less about how the gallerists balance sheets look at the end of their careers, but I’d suspect that more of their net worth has come from having insider knowledge to make strategic acquisitions of rising stars (at 50% off sticker price) and then talking up their book, than simply accumulating what profits are left over from their 50% after paying for all of that.
It's the Kanye West Syndrome
Indeed. However, there are massive monetary incentives and influences to perscribe treatment even though the risk/benefit ratio may not be in the patient's favor.
You are focusing on the admittedly extreme outlier example I used. Let me try a different example. The 5 year survival rate for lung cancer is roughly 50%. The other 50% were likely given some treatment that was hoped to be effective but still resulted in death. Are those failures to successfully treat the patient a medical error?
To be fair, studying collage did famously turn out pretty well, and economically too, for some young people like Picasso and Braque :) http://www.ideelart.com/module/csblog/post/159-1-cubist-coll...
I think "parallel construction" is the issue at hand, they can illegally search your emails with no cause or warrant, and then pretend they didn't and came by the evidence through other means. They can do this to everyone, and if you're targeted there's very little (nothing?) you can do about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

>In August 2013, a report by Reuters revealed that the Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises DEA agents to practice parallel construction when creating criminal cases against Americans that are based on NSA warrantless surveillance. The use of illegally obtained evidence is generally inadmissible under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.
> Obvious reasons: locking young people in universities in their highest testosterone years reduces crime and drug addiction

this could very well be true, but it hardly seems obvious. i could readily believe that fewer serious crimes occur at universities, but it seems like the combination of a large, low-friction network and a general blunting of consequences would lead to more drug use at least, and the ability to avoid or defer direct consequences does tend to exacerbate addictions and increase their harm over time.
A recent reading of Nietzsche made me view what is currently going on socially through the lens of his master/slave morality...it makes watching the "Oppression Olympics" more entertaining anyway...you can really see the "resentment" play out in full view.

"Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one's own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat. The ego creates the illusion of an enemy, a cause that can be 'blamed' for one's own inferiority/failure. Thus, one was thwarted not by a failure in oneself, but rather by an external 'evil'...Ressentiment comes from reactiveness: the weaker someone is, the less their capability to suppress reaction. According to Nietzsche, the more a person is active, strong-willed, and dynamic, the less place and time is left for contemplating all that is done to them, and their reactions (like imagining they are actually better) become less compulsive. The reaction of a strong-willed person (a "wild beast"), when it happens, is ideally a short action: it is not a prolonged filling of their intellect." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment#Kierkegaard_and_N...
I used to think HN was one of the better forums, but after recently trying to post a rebuttal to this [0] with multiple experiences from my workplace, and seeing my response vanish moments later, alongside the speed to which these threads have been flagged out of visibility (whilst anecdotal stories concerning women still rank very highly despite having far less age and far higher votes), I've lost faith both in the moderating abilities and the community to self-regulate.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16502359
Analysis of two decades in the UK, where in 1997 they banned video games and mental illness:

1996: 16 children and their teacher shot dead
1997-2018: 0 shot dead
Would you rather have a degree from Harvard with no education, or a harvard education with no degree?

If you prefer the degree to the education than you likely value the signaling more than the human capital argument for education
People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are just depth-first-searching for an overlooked maximal strategy.
...For the same reason we are over/underestimating all sorts of things: Correlations don't mean causation. Even when they do, subsidizing the cause can break the causal link. Taking english classes and learning english might be causally related, but paying people to take english classes may not have a predictable result.

The current disadvantage=discrimination debate has the same problem. So do many of the Scandi-inspired policy suggestions, assuming that policy X caused result Y, and will again.... If we apply this logic in other places we'd conclude that homosexuality increases salary. Evidence for these things is probabilistic, and we suck at statistics, especially when we're being political.

Anyway, I found this interesting (by ommission):

Part of the reason why university graduates earn more is because they are brighter and harder-working to begin with

Not that they were wealthier to begin with? Not for class reasons?

and...

humanities graduates, ...tend to earn more if they come from more prestigious institutions suggests that one reason ... get ahead of peers in the job market.

Get ahead how? Knowing people who are ahead? Being associated with people who are ahead? Talking like people who are ahead? They already conceded that it isn't the education....

Humanities (and educations generally), was the domain of the educated classes. Lower class people sent their kids there for class mobility reasons. It was a way for the more talented middle class kids to join the upper-middle classes, by joining them physically. Kids from those classes, went to college to strengthen the class association. In the UK, they were generally explicit about this. The economist knows this. Why beat around the bush.

Higher class seeming people (yes, this still exists) do better in job markets. ..also in marriage markets, probably get loans easier...
Putin boasts new strategic weapons will make US missile defense “useless”
This is why the public ownership model is bound to fail, and already the most successful companies are avoiding it as long as possible or entirely.
Education is in many ways a valuable preparation for future work, there are many important goals which can only be achieved (or can be achieved better) with lots of education.

But... it is also a social signal, and therefore a positional good. To the extent there is social status in being among the top third of the education scale, there can never be more than third of all people in that category.

The above seems ridiculously obvious... but is underappreciated in the analysis of many phenomena.

(Another example: if you define poverty as the 15th percentile of some measure, by definition the poverty level will always be 15%. To figure out if there's real progress being made, on poverty or education or anything else, a scale must be found that is not positional, that is somehow an absolute measure.)
They are, I agree, but if you're buying one that's 18 years old than you haven't done the maintenance yourself, and it's hard to be sure all the previous owners have done all the maintenance items. If I bought one brand new I have no doubt I could keep it running for 500,000km, but that's not the case in this hypothetical.
People still rely on other people more than algorithms to find TV shows to watch
How does a nation ban mental illness?
>Are you saying that a court/prosecutor should not be able to demand someone's emails

Not without a warrant.

>What if they could be used to exonerate?

Then the defense can present the evidence.
Yes, this happens. For example, it's raining in Manhattan right now and Uber to JFK is more than the flat-rate from where I'm sitting.
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In China, when you post a politically unacceptable idea on a social media site, it is removed by a state censor. In the US, when you post a politically unacceptable idea on a social media site, it is removed by corporate censors or allied groups like the SPLC.

I'm not sure I see a huge difference, in practice.

"But if you don't like Twitter's policies, you can just make your own app." Sure, like Gab, which was subsequently banned from both the Google and Apple app stores for not itself censoring. Not a lot of breathing room when the modern communication mediums are dominated by a duopoly.

But that's all tangential to my point, which was referring to the cultural appreciation of free speech.

It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time when site's like Twitter claimed to be strong supporters of speech as both a principle and a practical reality to strive for.

Nowadays, the more common attitude is, "if we allow people to speak freely, they will spread conspiracy theories, fake news, and hateful thoughts harmful to society, so these ideas must be suppressed."

In just a few years, the zeitgeist has gone from valuing free speech as one of our most cherished ideals to valuing social cohesion as the most important good.

Pretty crazy.
This is undoubtedly true on an individual level, but not necessarily true on a societal level.

(i.e. Things I can't control as an individual, we as a society might still be able to control or influence.)
The question is to what extent the things people learn in school actually make more skilled in ways that allow them to create prosperity. Obviously many things learned in school are quickly forgotten and never used. But also obviously many of us make a living with the things we learned.
And I may have overestimated the returns of learning how to paint like Bob Ross. No but seriously, reducing the value of labor to nothing is the cause here. Who could have predicted that being so jaded about workers that dedicate their lives to corporations would cause this to happen? So a typical citizen that works out all the time, is perpetually happy, frugal with finances, and only cares about work is a little too common nowadays (eerily so). This actually makes labor itself have no value if people will do it for free. None of these advantages work for people anymore because no one can stand out among anyone else.
Doing this would be foolish since they are taxed as income when they vest but capital gains after. If their aim was to unfairly take advantage they should wait until right after vesting not right before.
The latest FISA law made FISA spying admissible in court. The FBI (and IRS, and SEC, and DHS, and other agencies) only needs to get a warrant after already seeing the data, at which point I'm not even sure what the purpose of the warrant is. The Fourth Amendment warrant was supposed to stop fishing expeditions.
Collage is good, but I hear that if you really want to join the economic elite, you have to get into decoupage.
it also doesn't make much sense for white people. There's rich and poor, educated and uneducated, privileged and unprivileged in any arbitrary grouping of people. The idea of lumping a trust fund Ivy League kid in with a working class Ukrainian because of skin colour is just blatantly nonsense, and you can map that nonsensicality onto any designation of group privilege. Hence the idea of individualism, or treating people with respect to their actual circumstances rather than what one assumes to be their circumstances based on correlative but not absolute indicators like race.
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modern higher education == cargo cult
>SO!! If you had a /usr/bin/cd program that ran chdir, that would be fine, but when you started it it would change its own working directory and exit which is not very helpful. It wouldn’t change the working directory of you (the parent process)

I am a little confused. What is the parent process and why does that matter here?
Keep trying, it eventually goes through.
CS50, the intro CS course at Harvard, which is notably a large and successful MOOC in addition, is taught in C. It's a really bizarre choice, and only serves to add complexity to a topic that already has a fairly high cognitive barrier to entry.
umm, what? Darwin's finches comes to mind [1]. Also, since then, a host of other examples. All you need to do is look at the Wikipedia page [2], which has citations to the primary research.

Unless you mean, no one has seen it happen inside a lab? But that's not true either.., accelerated evolution experiments with uni-cellular species with different "sexes", leading to reproductive isolation (ergo, speciation) has been shown [3].

How about multi-cellular species where this has been demonstrated at the broad genetic & physiological / behavioral level? That's been done too. See these two for a review of some of the work [4,5].

[1] https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/3/9/45/2701607

"On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection", Darwin & Wallace

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation#The_effect_of_sexua...

[3] http://www.pnas.org/content/112/14/4405

"Molecular coevolution of a sex pheromone and its receptor triggers reproductive isolation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe"

[4] http://www.pnas.org/content/97/23/12398

"Natural selection and speciation"

[5] http://www.pnas.org/content/102/suppl_1/6522

"The genetic basis of reproductive isolation: Insights from Drosophila"

And all this from a cursory 5 minute search (including time to type this up)..
So the point you are trying to make is that it's worth giving up a few human lives every year to maintain the status quo?
All europe except england.

[1,0] http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blog/how-the-world-s...
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