skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed this as well. Folks from less elite schools are less likely to know how much their skills are worth as well.

Lots of people I've talked to at my school don't believe software engineers can make $160k-$200k TC out of undergrad.
Thanks, I see the similarities now.

I think the system will work only as far as you have power players that are able to punish everyone who gets out of line - by racing to the bottom and driving profits out as a punishment [1].

That's exactly what I think complaining countries should do. They're not getting any revenue now, so they are able to power play Ireland into fair taxation, and the system will be as stable as their possibility to do so. If you take into account that any country cheating will take revenue away from others (thus their reason for a high tax), they should always be able to counter, as they are now.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/03/business/saudis-use-pain-...
Ask HN: Are you currently paying for any Slackbots?
As someone who went to an Ivy, I don’t think so. There are lots of hard workers, especially international students from poorer areas, but there are also tons of rich kids (international and domestic) that get in because their families could afford to send them to Africa / have them be taught horse-riding. In fact, extra-curricular activities are to me to very strongly associated with middle class / upper class families.

Even the not rich kids often have had very supportive families. The vast majority of students don’t take college classes in high school / decide to compete in olympiads by themselves. At the least it takes a supportive teacher or more likely a supportive parent to suggest the idea—most kids in most neighborhoods aren’t even aware of the existence of such programs.
This rings true to anyone who has owned a Tesla, especially if they purchased it when the model was new. Repeated trips to get minor things fixed is not uncommon.

Nonetheless, they are excellent cars and worth the early adopter frustration (IMO).
I suspect their big problem is more that their site is too big for the moderation staff they have at the moment. Identifying bots is easy for people sure, but it's hard to automate with AI and hiring people to proactively hunt out and shut down bots is expensive.

Of course, the fact doing it too well hurts the stats doesn't help either.
Eh - I could see that but there are people with lucky backgrounds at state schools as well. Most of the folks I know at elite schools grew up in very similar circumstances to myself.
Why We Engage in Open Source: Answers from Core Developers
Serverless in this context is merely a product by AWS. What great inventions do you think that Amazon created here, because serverless is just a word? Do you think that creating a buzzword like Amazon is the same as the science involved in creating an automobile?
Compilers and interpreters never really clicked for me until I ran into Forth, that kind of simplicity was exactly the foundation I had been looking for all along.

https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl
The specific argument suggests a tiny homunculus who lives in your head and and understands English.

The biologist argument requires something special in organic chemistry, something unknown, that is incompatible with other physics?

Quantum mechanics? Bell's Inequality.
then you'll have no CEOs and lots of janitors
Indeed. I check out the question only if I understood the answer, but need to verify if it solves my problem.
That could be fixed though. If the Airline let the luggage go the final destination, they could charge (maybe $100) to return the luggage once it arrives at the destination. This would also decentivise people from trying to deboard unless it was really important.
Why? This article explains that inequality does exist, but doesn't say why that's a problem.
Any book/resource recommendations for learning Forth?
Why functions over Docker or Elastic Beanstalk? There's more than one PaaS path.

On vendor lock-in, I'm moving between clouds now. Serverless did not translate well at all. We would have saved a ton of time, and frankly had an easier operational experience, if we went with Docker from be beginning.

"Ok Jill, next we need to determine how Azure Storage Account bucket calls differ from AWS S3. Oh, S3 doesn't have queues so we need to use SNS which changes the transaction model...Yeah, we've gotta handle different guarantees"

Product at most places "doesn't have the time" for developers to abstract the serverless hooks. You have to change the interface that runs your app instead.of the interface your app provides.
He is also one of the biggest proponents of working only through online communication. He, as the sole contributor to Linux at that point with famed single line license, release linux to the open internet.

The entire philosophy is based on the idea of:
1. Being open to skepticism (this includes being technically evaluated on your work, which is possible through public submission of that work)
2. Allowing people to work on the things at which they excel.

If you don't subscribe to these ideas, it doesn't matter where you work, how you work or what you do. It will not be 'innovative'.
Sometimes it does. In my experience, starting salary is an albatross around your neck. I was by far our best performer but was compensated the same as everyone else in my position after years of excellent work, which my coworkers and supervisors would corroborate.
That’s part of why I’m earning a PhD.
Executives are the easiest people to identify and to hire. You select them from your major competitors and you throw a bunch of money at them. It's easier done than said.

Then you're gonna need hundreds of people to design and manufacture the cars, in specific locations. These positions are a lot harder to fill.

A general is useless without his army. An executive is useless without employees.
Exactly. We have sophisticated search algorithms, noise is no problem.
It’s pretty hard to imagine those laws coming to the US in our lifetimes with all the corporate interests that would oppose them.

It’s probably obvious but our best bet is in voting for Bernie Sanders.
I've taken to just not carrying a cell phone with me, or just keeping it off.

I don't really need it most of the time, and I find the sense of privacy liberating.
The problem though is that Windows sucks, not 7-zip. You are just using a crappy closed-source spyware OS.
Ditto. I almost never read the question. A well written answer restates the question in some form.
And I honestly do not care. That is the airlines problem.
Something that occurred to me (but I don't have data or time to follow up):

I wonder if the U-shaped curve for sex ratio imbalances vs. societal violence reflects both causation and correlation. The dynamics would work like this:

An oversupply of young, unmarried males in a population leads to intense competition for mates and for the resources that attract mates (jobs, money, territory, social status, etc). This triggers instincts in our brains that make us more competitive, and more willing to band together with others to remove potential competition. At some point this reaches a critical mass, populations go to war, and most of the excess males are killed off. This leads to an oversupply of females, but because of social inertia (people don't immediately adjust their behavior after massive depopulation, it takes time to adjust to the new reality), the society remains violent for some time afterwards, even though the sex ratio is now very skewed in favor of women. The data would show a U-shaped curve, but the oversupply of males would be the cause of violence while the oversupply of females would be a consequence of violence.

To verify this hypothesis, there'd need to be a time and historical context attached to each data point, so that in addition to looking at the sex ratio, we'd look at the sex ratio trend before and after the outbreak of violence and on what timeframe violence rates go down. I'm unaware of studies that have done this.
De ice the plane before people board.
It's a common misconception: not all flights are forbidden.

Yes, almost all flights are forbidden above Paris, unless you're above 2000m (6600 ft) and you're a regular airliner or military transport...

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFT...
No that's perfect and it agrees with my thought that having an archive available online is valuable.

Just put up a sample issue page (as best I can for now) and I'll find some way to post them automatically as they're sent.

Thanks again!
Can't say I'll miss 'em.
I feel like all these estimates of "overpopulation" are massively overblown. These issues are almost entirely political/social.

The capacity for Earth to hold humans is massive.

Currently only a tiny sliver of the surface has people on it and if that becomes a problem we can build vertically (up and down).

We're barely capturing relatively free energy such as sunlight, wind, geothermal, and tidal. Think of how much of the Sahara isn't a solar energy production plant.

If the labor of 1 human can feed at least 2 people you can have a society. With technology 1 human can work to feed thousands if not millions with increased automation. Food production can be fully automated with the ambition to.

The only real bound of food production if you consider vertical hydroponic farming alongside nuclear and freeish energy, is the amount of nutrients plants and insects require to produce adequate amounts of human nutrition. Virtually all plant nutrients have evolved to be highly recyclable through natural processes, most of which can by accelerated with technology.
>I got my BSCS from this school, and landed a great gig within a month of graduation. As a "re-entry" student on a tight budget (30 year-old working food service), I met many others who were similarly driven to build the skillsets and relationships to launch their careers as efficiently as possible.

As someone working their way through the California public school system in a similar situation, I've hit a roadblock with the math classes. Having no background in even basic high school math has killed me, failing pre-calculus twice now. Any tips?
RFC3514: The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header (2003)
Ether plunges after SEC says “dozens” of ICO investigations underway
Did anyone catch how deliberate they were with ensuring two Jewish students were in the picture? Why?
The Book: Digging the #DeepWeb: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web
For me it's not even the distance... it's the time. Running 100 miles doesn't sound impossible to me... running for 31 straight hours is what sounds impossible.
It seems contradictory because of our intuitions regarding what is required for phenomenal properties, i.e. access to some non-physical substance. But these intuitions don't rule out functionalism if there's a functional explanation for why we have these intuitions.

Stated more clearly: the explanandum here is the "seemings" of phenomenal properties, not the ontology of phenomenal properties. Functionalism needs to explain why the proposition "it seems to i that P" is true, where "i" indexes a conscious system and P is a phenomenal property.
Apparently we can only have one conflict-of-interest story on the front page at once per mods, but some readers might be interested in further reading on the topic from last year:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
(Methods may also be useful to folks wondering how/where to get the data, and what a pain it is to link it...!)

We were interested in how physician payments drive prescribing costs across specialties, rather than for specific meds.
Regardless of the technical measures, I think we can all agree something called 'Mastodon' will be safe from spam bots in perpetuity simply by virtue of not having any non-geek users.

"Hey Melissa, here's my Mastodon handle, hit me up."

"Your... what?"

"My Mastodon, it's a federated social network free from any corporate overlord!"

"Whatever, freak..."
That overview says plated boilers are safe. Yet apparently they are not according to the forum post above.
Can RedisGraph be embedded inside an Android application?
I don't have much experience developing applications for Android but it mostly comes down to the underline architecture you're aiming for, although Redis 4.0 can run on ARM, RedisGraph currently can't as it access unaligned memory.

But incase that's resolved or in the case of Intel CPU you'll have to embed a binary executable within your Android application, i'm pretty sure that's possible.

With regard to your second question, I think this a personal preference question, as I've been dealing mostly with in-memory applications for the past couple of years I'll prefer a memory oriented API.
New York town grapples with cryptocurrency mining in shipping containers
How the and sign got its name
This is where I don't understand. If the data scientists don't know the why of the decision making and the software cannot explain itself then how do they understand that it is accurate?

Going further, how in the heck do they justify using something like this on credit applications or anything else that can adversely affect their fellow humans? The ethics of such a lack of knowledge should give pause and frankly I hope they get sued if this is the truth of the matter. That is monstrous.
The email reminders I get look like:

Subject: You are using Google Location Sharing to share your real-time location.

Hi Jeff,

To protect your privacy, we would like to remind you that you are sharing your real-time location using Google Location Sharing with [wife] and [close friend and housemate].

If you didn't enable this or want to stop sharing your location at any time, please go to your Google Location Sharing settings.

Thanks,

Google Location Sharing Team
The follow-on pieces about other glyphs are rather good too!
Everything where you would use REST ( http / json ) but where the client is not a browser.
There's Leo Brodie's classic books from the 1980s (mostly still applicable today)

https://1scyem2bunjw1ghzsf1cjwwn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

and its followup Thinking Forth

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/thinking-forth/thinking-f...
Facebook facing its biggest test ever and its lack of leadership could sink it
Speculation is that plants produce phytoestrogens for herbivore birth control.

"Phytochemical mimicry of reproductive hormones and modulation of herbivore fertility by phytoestrogens"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1474615/
You are kidding, right?

If money is not a factor, I want to feel important, have people suck up to me, travel on corporate jet, etc.

:-)
> It's just alternating layers of affine transformations and nonlinearity with lots of tricks and improved routing.

and a computation is just 0s and 1s, with lots of if/then statements.
No, only if you allow to track you even when you’re not using it.
Unless you are speaking about android and in that case it may well be like this, no idea honestly.
'Ms. Dickinson, now a social worker, said that every day she walked by people “who are going through trauma and adversity.”

“You never know — you never know anybody’s story,” she said.'

Now, thanks to this spectacular piece of journalism, we know the story of at least one person who died on the streets on NYC.
>>> “The goal will always remain the same,” says Elliott Bisnow, Rosenthal’s business partner: “To be a beacon of inspiration and a light in the world.”

I may be jealous because he made tons of money where I didn't do shit, with the tools of my trade. But I certainly don't envy that kind of attitude. C'mon, one needs a little more than a business success to be a "beacon of inspiration and a light in the world". Altruistic doesn't mean enlightened.
The commenters on that post are very narrow-minded and should not be downvoting and making pointless comments. That said, I think for SO you should word the question so that it can have a specifically correct answer. The farther you stray from this requirement, the more likely the question will get closed as "too broad". If you have more broad design questions try SoftwareEngineering Exchange.
Rubber that can make and store power from light and vibration
I just use IPython interactive shell at any point I want to explore. It has access to local variables.
Maybe West Virginia doesn't have a big black population, all the crime in the cities is mainly a black problem. It will be more interesting to compare those cities to rural places with a large black population concentration, maybe Mississippi?
This does not solve the problem GP has raised.
Here's the state of tail-call optimisation in JavaScript:

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#test-proper_tail_...

Discussion on this (apparently controversial!) feature:

https://github.com/kangax/compat-table/issues/819
Dinosaur Skeleton Set to Be Auctioned for Bitcoin in France
Sounds like a variant on this urban legend:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-skews/

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/sep/10/...
IIRC the extra delays can make the de-icing lose its effect enough for it to not be safe to fly anymore.
The Silicon Valley Quest to Preserve Stephen Hawking’s Voice
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing. Question: so are plants leeching it into the soil => our water supply? Or is it the plants that we're eating?
wow and they would lose it half the time for sure, no thanks
It was obviously the employees who implemented his plans, but those same employees were working there while the company is in utter freefall, so it would seem he clearly had some disproportionate positive impact, no?
it was the ability of steve jobs to create an organizing principle (and its corresponding organizational structure) that deserves credit for apple's success.
JavaScript is considering syntactic support for tail calls instead of automatic support. Automatic optimisation is currently in the spec but is apparently controversial.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-ptc-syntax
Come again? Youtube isn't shutting down leftist extremist content. But right-wing channels are getting banned by the dozen. Even relatively moderate right-wing channels are going down.
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

You're looking for "Location History".
> I don't think it's terribly controversial that collaborating in person is much, much easier.

It's fairly controversial, especially among engineers. Not all engineers, but a sizable percentage of engineers are not comfortable in social collaboration - especially forced social collaboration stretching over multiple hours for difficult tasks.

As far as 'easier' goes, 'easier' isn't always 'better'. While that online collaboration across a slack channel may have higher friction, it would also have many benefits as well. Other people can follow the entire process, so continuous status updates aren't required. The chat can be stored so if the issue happens again, it's easy to reference back to what was done.

> But it's entirely unsurprising to me that innovation is more likely to come from collocated teams.

I don't think this is proven anywhere, and may be one of those things where you think it is correct, but it really isn't. Fully integrated remote work as we have today is a very new phenomenon and there hasn't been much research into it. Further, many quick growing startups that are looking very promising are taking the 'remote first' approach and seem to be benefiting from it from an outsider's perspective.
The examples here look more interesting than libui

https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear

There’s a typical window app, game ui, something that looks like unreal engines visual programming.

Seems like a flexible system

Haven’t actually tried to use it though. That’s where it will win or lose, IMO

Edit: and just got to end of the README. Bindings available for rust, python, go, lua, java and more. Gonna have to kick the tires on this one.
Thank you I will check it out.
Trans woman here. Was going to say this, but you nailed it.

Just going to confirm right now any effect this has is nowhere close to the kind of estrogen changes that actual hormone therapy provides.
It should, but this also illustrates a problem with Google Search that they'll need to grapple with in the future. Namely, that while they should treat all sites equally, in practicality there's not really much incentive to on their part.

Think about it. Let's say Google does remove Pinterest altogether, banning the site as a punishment for 'gaming' the system.

What then? The people that do search for Pinterest will find it missing, and likely assume Google screwed up/their search engine is broken. They won't know Google banned the site or what for, they'll just think 'Pinterest should be coming up, it isn't, so Google is broken'.

And I suspect that underpins a lot of instances where Google gives larger more popular sites and services a slap on the wrist for using black hat SEO. Google knows that if they really did treat them 'equally', then the average Joe would think Google's search engine was a broken mess because it doesn't bring up what they expect it to.

However, on the flip side by not banning them or punishing them, you get stuff like this where it seems like large sites are allowed to break rules with impunity and smaller ones are hit with the banhammer for a single offence. It's an interesting conundrum.
If it turns out perfect you might as well saved yourself the time and bought one. The difference between store bought and homemade is the imperfections that sometimes help, sometimes hurt, but always show it's your own creation.
> I’m equally unsympathetic to Nazis and white supremacists, but after that it gets a little hairy.

It is far too easy to label people you disagree with Nazis and white supremacists.

I'm unsympathetic to people who think it's ok to gas Jews etc - but I don't trust the media, or YouTube, to accurately categorize people.

I certainly don't trust political activists.
Drat, my favourite toothpaste contains tea tree oil.
Because research has shown there’s an inverse correlation between CEO pay and company performance.¹

¹ https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/CEOperform...
If only Twitter didn't obliterate the "third-party market" that existed in the Twitter ecosystem in the early days. I imagine we'd be seeing all sorts of solutions against bots by now, especially in third-party Twitter clients.

But no, Twitter had to "take matters in its own hands" and "control the ecosystem". Much good that brought.
The CEO job is the most fun job at any company. Everyone wants that job, and they would want it even if it didn’t pay any money at all. I personally would be happy to work for free as the CEO of a lot of these companies.
I think creativity is the wrong thing to focus on if you are interested in where China may fall short as it largely depends on personal initiative. People are creative despite of their government and society, which all exert conforming pressures wherever you are. If the saying "necessity is the mother of all inventions" rings true at all, people in the developing world certainly face more necessities to be creative.

Where China may fall short is actually when people become overly "creative": authoritarianism conditions people to individually work around rules they don't like instead of working together to change the rules. When rules are ignored you have rampant corruption and heavy pollution despite rules on the book.
Replying to cbr/muro - those are emails about specific people that you have allowed to see your location data. The NC police are getting warrants for everyone in an area's location data. It doesn't matter if you've shared it - GPS, cell-tower data is passively collected by Google and then provided en masse to the police when subpoenaed. Nobody receives periodic emails from Google saying "you have your location services turned on [which we will nag the shit out of you about if you don't] and thus Google has a running log of everywhere you go [and if you happen to be in a jurisdiction that wipes it ass with the Fourth Amendment we'll also turn over all the data we've collected to the police]."