skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other news, people are found to act in their own self interests and game whatever rules and systems are in place for their own personal advantage.

Further research reached the surprising conclusion that CEOs are people too, and game the system just like any other person.

[Edit: adding color, as my comment lacked substance to abide by HN's guidelines]

Snark aside, this is a great example on how we need to design robust incentive systems that minimize the chance of gaming them. People are amazing optimizers, and will find any loopholes or gaps that allow them to use any system to their advantage.

CEOs delaying investments, CFOs colluding with industry analysts, rushing product launches, technical debt, etc. are all examples of the same symptom.

"Detecting Earnings Management", by Richard Sloan (a former professor of mine) is a great article that shows the same behavior as this article: managers will anticipate or delay earnings and investments in a way that maximises whatever metric they are evaluated on.

This is further exacerbated by the non-linearity of the market response to earnings surprises. Unsurprisingly, the distribution of earnings surprises over time are not symmetrical to the average market return.
A CS education, for better or worse (in my opinion - for the better), is grounded in theory and foundational knowledge. Introductory CS classes are designed to ease people into programming, yes, but also to give a taste for concepts that they'll eventually have to become very comfortable with later on.

I don't think Python is a bad first language to learn, but I think that it's important to consider the audience of these introductory CS classes. These classes aren't really designed JUST to teach you programming (I say this as a person who never coded before CS31). This is why the UCLA Computer Science faculty recently introduced CS97, which is actually an introductory programming course taught in Python for absolute beginners. That way those who are already comfortable with coding can ease themselves into learning about lower-level implementation they may not have been exposed to before, and absolute beginners can supplement their introductory _Computer Science_ class with an introductory programing class as well.
That's not really an answer at all. Eating dog isn't seen as abhorrent because of the possibility of consuming parasites or the quality of the meat. It's seen as abhorrent because we view dogs as trusted companions capable of basic emotion. GP was merely stating that this quality, which is the one that actually causes people to scoff at dog-eaters, is also present in pigs.
"Better than the average video game movie" is not exactly a high bar to clear, though :-/
Hey Etheryte, I appreciate your comment. The aim wasn't to list off buzzwords -- sorry if it appeared like that, and I can see how the formatting made it look like one big melting pot of buzzwords. We're hiring across the board, so the tech stack here lists technologies we use from frontend to backend to devops to machine learning and more. Also, we have a number of different apps that are using different tech stacks because we're open to experimenting to see which tools work best for which features -- so, for example, on the frontend, we are using Typescript for some apps, and we've also experimented with using Flow in other apps. We'll actually soon be coming out with a tech blog article comparing the pros and cons of both Typescript and Flow, so your comment is highly relevant!
> The cost of hiring this employee goes way up.

The cost of hiring an employee would be offset from the employee to the prospective employer.

By requiring a degree as certification, the financial burden is put on the employee before they can accrue capital to pay for it. This leaves millions in serious debt before they can even start making money.

The notion that all qualified persons became qualified in the same manner ignores the rest of us who learned and gained experience with other methods. Those other methods are abundant, freely available, and comparable in quality and result to academia.

> The difference is that a student who is 100% dedicated to self learning could do it all on their own, which is a net win, but I suspect that for the majority, things would not change too much.

That is exactly the attitude that got us into this mess. The only reason "the majority" considers academia as an integral part of their career paths is that it is by virtue of employers using degrees as accreditation!

I disagree with your notion that accreditation would [d]evolve into academia. Academia demands much more of a student than accreditation: homework, time, structure, etc. It also demands a more strict learning path.

If a diverse group of people relied on a test for accreditation, the test would be better applied to that group's diverse learning paths.
Yet there are plenty of people that work very hard without reaching that goal.
You can make your own adapters depending on the pen you want to put in it. I've made some out of dried out HP pens that I cut the ends off and jammed a Sharpie into. I've seen nicer 3d printed adapters on eBay and Thingiverse as well. When using a heavier pen like a Sharpie, you might want to set the plotter's speed a little lower to avoid knocking the pen loose when it accelerates.
Interesting. To me, "highlighting the power structure," is a critical technique that frames one party as a moral antagonist and there is nothing neutral, objective, or rigorous about that. I should perhaps have been more brief and said only that the article was tawdry marxist outrage porn, but I my intent was to contribute a view that untangled it from its tendentious frame.
I majored in EE at UT Austin around 2000, and our intro programming class was C++. I doubt there was a good rationale for it other than to cause rapid attrition of EE majors. I never again used C++ in my studies or professionally. Learning C would have been much more helpful for my later embedded systems classes.
Here's a 2014 study of top 39 US CS programs on what language they user for their intro courses. More than half use Python, followed by Java.

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-th...
Article shows Children under 12 are free (even for non-residents of NY state).
Could you explain how you think this applies? In his paper, Akerlof describes college as a mitigating factor of the information asymmetry of the labor market. Higher productivity workers gain education at less personal cost than lower productivity workers, and it thus gains value as a signal. If education doesn't, ultimately, correlate with productivity, then the argument is that the market will simply ignore it.
I invite you to actually read that article all the way to the end. The classical examples of ring species may be oversimplifications but the concept of gradual gene flow is still very much intact (obviously).

As for your first point: don’t just selectively ignore what I’ve written and linked to. Beyond that, there is ample evidence. And it’s not hard to find, I’d invite you to honestly try. But I’ll stop here since I don’t have much hope of actually convincing a creationist. I posted the information for the benefit of others.
If anyone could point me to a spiritual successor to Privateer, I would be so extremely happy. Does such a thing exist?
Hard Things About Hard Things really helped my career. It could be a placebo.
Does this include what you're giving Mongo + ElasticSearch? The graylog process isn't all I'm worried about, it's kind of the combination of the three.

Regardless, I'm probably going to just use Graylog then -- I'm not running a large environment by any means, and while I've been at a company where graylog was used in production (which is where I heard about it), people often complained about it hogging resources. Time has passed, and I'm sure that if it's good enough for you, it's more than good enough for me (especially since I'm not running anything "in production").

I still want to get the EFKK stack up and running though, right now there's basicaly two choices, ELK/EFK or Graylog or some hosted option (splunk, sumologic?, others), I'd like to at least stand up both choices once and get a feel for them (and I've done Graylog before).
Fear is the Mind Killer
I think that battle has been lost a while back. Given the 1) dislike of 'conditional code' in the kernel and 2) the use of device tree, there is no longer any possibility for the compiler/linker to remove stuff that isn't actually needed.

I think the big vendors are to blame, they've been dreaming about a single kernel binary that can run on ANY board, with a magic device tree, it suits their own way of 'distributing' SDKs, and it has transformed the kernel from something that you COULD tune to a platform/board to one that is /actively/ discouraged to be tuned to a platform.

A while back a couple of friends and I reverse engineered a 4MB picture frame [0], and had linux and doom running on it, for the lulz. That was kernel 2.6; these days imagining running linux in 4MB makes me sniggers.

[0]: https://sites.google.com/site/repurposelinux/df3120
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There was an interesting observation on the road a few years back.

I saw a Dominos delivery driver in a high end Jaguar. I can only presume it was a young person borrowing their parents' car to do deliveries as their summer job or whatnot. It was amusing to me (having an economics background), because I couldn't figure out what the lesson was being taught here.

Doing some back of napkin math, there was absolutely no way for this kid to generate enough money to make up for the cost of operating this car in a suburban neighborhood. Between the high maintenance cost and the low gas mileage of a luxury car, he was losing money every minute that the jag was being operated (barring, of course, some insane tips for big orders).

As far as real estate: yes, it doesn't take a financial genius to realize that renting income after all expenses is far lower than most people estimate and net profit hovers around $0-100 in vast majority of even profitable cases. Besides, you aren't the first person to think about investing in RE, so all the economic profit is generally already priced into the value of land, so you won't be able to get a bargain.
I've visited this museum on past trips to New York but will now be less likely to do so. In the past I've gone in, paid $5-10 and spent 1-3 hours at the museum before moving on. It's a really big museum so I'd do this multiple times in a trip. Paying $25 I'd feel like I have to put everything I want to see into a single, longer visit. That's a lot less interesting to me than breaking it into several smaller visits over a few days.
> You drag yourself through a communications degree at Ryegrass State, with a B- average, and no technical training. This degree basically guarantees you an entry level job in a government bureacracy making 35,000 a year ...

wait. it does? is that really true?
I got into Wing Commander very late (WC 4), after having spent probably thousands of hours in the X-Wing series. So when I failed a mission and the story kept going, I was blown away. It's THE feature I remember most fondly, looking back. And this was a game with branching paths in full motion video! I was blown away.
> Most of the PhDs I know are quite open to be convinced by sound reasoning even though they might disagree at first, and that is a great boon to societal decision making.

Correlation is not causation. A potentially more likely explanation is that people more open to changing their mind are more likely to be willing and able to get a PhD.
Seems like your website is only a placeholder/not finished?

* When trying to click on either “LEARN MORE” or “View Pricing” (all six instances) nothing except the button animation is happening for me.

* The burger menu is opening an empty menu

I’m on iOS 11.3 and used Safari
Looking back on my life, there are significant successes that were pure luck, and also those that had nothing to do with luck. I'm talking strictly about events here, and not traits. If you want to talk about the luck of having traits, precursors to those traits, and precursors to those traits, then I think that's a totally different conversation.

So I'll focus on events. Most of my success is due to being a programmer. That's not luck (again, disregarding traits!) I was always fascinated with computers and math. I worked my ass off to afford my first computer at age 12. I worked my ass off to learn programming, and I hustled my ass off to break into the industry with no degree.

Within the context of my career, the vast majority of my success comes from a six-month period full of extremely lucky chance events that just fell into my lap. It's like I was blessed for those six months, and every little thing went exactly my way with perfect timing. Working hard, networking, making good decisions - that's all just a baseline. Just the price of entry. Outside of that magical chapter, I was not working less hard, networking less, having a worse attitude, making stupider choices, or anything of the kind. This is why I have a gripe with people who always scrutinize your part in your circumstances. Yes, maybe its a good strategy to focus on what you can control, but in the bigger analysis, if you're trying to be more analytical about it, it seems like BS to me.

I was consistent. I always worked hard and all that jazz. But sometimes, chance events all went my way and I profited massively from it. Most of the time, either nothing happened, or everything that 'should' have gone right, went wrong. So I personally find the luck angle to be the interesting one - not in the motivational, how-to-live sense. Just in the big picture observation sense.
A subcontractor who consistently turned down construction work would also be deprioritized by a general contractor.

Because Uber, Lyft, and others periodically offer different incentives in the market, I could make a case that by deciding to sign up on a specific day or respond to a specific offer, you had a chance to accept or decline the company's offer. There's nothing stopping you from reaching out to Uber or Lyft corporate and trying to negotiate your rate. I predict you won't succeed, anymore than the drywall contractor example upthread.
Yeah the 'basic' sets I got in the 70's had plenty of wheels, slopes, windows, and those weird articulated arm people- the mythic age of children building everything out of rectangles never really existed.
Would you mind sharing the resources alotted to mongo + elastic search? I'd consider those under the umbrella of Graylog
Devil's advocate: Maybe it's not each fare that's a job, but each driving session. Uber offering you a particular job is them giving you the "start driving" button, and you are free to not click it.
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True, only to a point.
I knew someone who became homeless because the were unlucky enough to develop schizophrenia. They couldn't hold a job, or hold their life together without a lot of help. The assistance they got from the state was not enough to save them from dire poverty. One bad thing led to another.

So did they not work hard enough?

Another person I knew was kicked out of their parents house when they came out as trans. They were thrown out of their house as a teenager with no money and no relatives to turn to (all the relatives were deeply religious and believed that 'tough love' would make her change her wicked ways). She found work, and eventually got a place to live. But with poor education, and being a social outcast, she could only just make ends meet. It left her vulnerable, and subsequent boyfriends, "friends" and roommates would take advantage of that.

Now you can say these are edge cases. I agree. And for most people, the "hard work" advice pays off. But realize how smug it sounds, to proclaim that all you need is hard work, when some people do everything they can and still get stuck.
Some argue that it's illegal in many cities to just start taking Uber passengers as well.
There's a ton of them. The "official" one was Freelancer, though.
I dont think thats correct. I dont think you could optimize routes, meaningfully more, that would require, some kind of prediction, of upcomming drives. Its not impossible, but not something that will save heaps of money. And there will be downtime, because rides will follow some kind of pattern during the day. When people are at work, there will be way less demand, when people are going to work, there will be way more demand etc. right now thats kind of offset, by Uber not owning the cars, and not paying for idle drivers.
Either it's a case of Fundamental Attribution Error, or the natural tendency for "luck" events is to be negative rather than positive.
I agree. I merely stated that it’s not automatic that you are even participating in the lottery of “becoming successful” :)
My biggest object to the functional options argument is the step where

NewServer(..., Config{})

is considered bad for some reason. As far as I can tell, the entire purported utility of the thing is based on avoiding this obvious approach.
Don't worry, they do. Hell, so do adults. Dark Souls pretty much redefined my standards for great single player games.
That's a workaround to the problem, and a messy one at that.

The problem is that work that does not require college education demands a degree as certification; forcing prospective employees - with no capital - to go into debt to satisfy an arbitrary hiring requirement.
California and New England are so divorced from the concerns and ethos of the 'flyover' states that they may as well be on another planet. You may not think of yourself as elitist, but from the perspective of a Midwesterner, you almost certainly are.
It seems they have:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=5576...

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6177...
I have some cellulose acetate LEGO bricks.

It's no good for longevity. They've all changed colour and deformed a bit in various ways.
Also discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16271005 (1 month ago, 268 points)
This is one of the best ways to go. If you're lucky, you can come upon somebody who isn't a professional seller that's getting rid of a whole collection, and snag an entire tub for < $100.
Maybe course withdrawal rates could be used, but getting access to the necessary statistics seems like it'd be a chore. I just checked with my university and the only statistics I can find are centered around graduation rates. One would likely have to contact all the registrars among a sample of universities individually, as I haven't found a university offering these statistics yet.
> Agreed... but doesn't your toddler have a breakdown about everything, all the time?

Mine doesn't, and I'm not looking to gratuitously introduce new sources of breakdowns.
Because white is the first word in that sentence.
The $25 admission gets you in for 3 consecutive days, which seems like it should still (mostly) support your way of using the museum?
Ignoring these external factors isn't going to make them go away and studying them could lead to ideas about removing bias and having more meritocratic systems.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=chromium
There are certainly many more than that ordinary Icelanders living in other countries, and they still know the language. (I'd guess it's tens of thousands).
Sure, once the people here today have had a century of assimilation I suspect they will not impact the income distribution curve.

If you were happy with the income equality from a century ago, I'm willing to adopt the welfare and tax systems of that time so all the incentives are the same.
Generally speaking real estate law probably is not constant anywhere over any significant period of time. Even without a revolution, looking just at the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in England[1], it is possible to see how small details were nation-altering in terms of both economic and political[2] power.

England is an easy place to start because the common language leads to an extensive Wikipedia article, but you'd find similar ones for any European country in their own language, especially since most experienced the upheaval of revolutions, conquests or occupations. The US had common trends but different details for each state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_English_land_law

[2] Failure to redraw maps had meant that sometimes one landowner was the constituency behind a seat in the commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Act_1832
> Similarly, plastics sourced from biological sources are better.

What makes them better? Seriously. What is better about cycling them through a plant first?

You need hydrogen and carbon to make that plastic. You can get them from anywhere, it makes no difference whatsoever if a plant hold them for a while first.

It's energy that matters.
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> Time was when leaders would actually lead their countries into battle. Caesar, Hannibal. They were men putting their bodies on the line. Even Hitler. Say, what you like about Adolf – and the man did have his faults – but at least he was prepared to top himself when everything went tits up. That’s having skin in the game. George W Bush and Tony Blair had no skin in the game when they went to war against Iraq and have completely messed up the entire world as a result. If they’d had to fight or send one of their kids to the front line, maybe they would have acted differently.

I have not read Taleb's latest book, I am silly enough to have found some interesting bits in Antifragile so I am certainly missing something. Ignoring the sarcasm, how is this idea ridiculous?

I am certainly worried of today leaders wielding more power than ever without having any concrete idea of the outcome of an actual war. And it will only get worse.
This sort of attack breaks the site guidelines and will get your account banned on HN, regardless of what ideology you favor. Please don't post like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree. Having CI with multiple git repositories is still a painful thing. (I continue to rely primarily on GitHub here. My backup repos don't have CI enabled.)

I think if your primary repo that's hooked into CI goes down, you're still SOL. Having your own repo just enables you to continue local development among your team.

I don't see any great solution, other than making your app distributed to begin with and doing your build/deploy manually.

As a complete aside, I've fantasized about deploying to all cloud vendors (Azure/GCE/AWS/Heroku/DigitalOcean/misc.) each with their own specific build/deploy and having persistent state shared with something like CockroachDB. Having some load balancer managing state between all instances. Taking advantage of the free/basic tiers provided by all of the vendors.
With the coming Rampage movie, I'm again excited for silly movies based on games. Clue is one of my all time favorite movies. :)

That said, your point is fair. Most book to movies, I though, typically strip out a lot, but don't fundamentally change the story. Do they?

Of course, as this article points out, the story for this game wasn't nearly as good as my rosy glasses give it credit for.
You can buy individual bricks off Bricklink. It's basically Ebay but exclusively for LEGO.