skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> More than that though, they are vital parts of having a well rounded education where knowledge at a base level in areas almost always elevates your ability to think well in others.

Is there any evidence of this? Liberal arts majors claim it but I haven't really seen any proof. The philosophy courses I took in college had professors with an air of smug self-righteousness and faux-enlightenment. It seems more likely that the people who study this stuff then backwards rationalize why it was important.

I also think "well rounded education" is a tactic to keep people under the misinformed idea that intelligence can be earned. Wisdom, maybe, but not intelligence. That's pretty well established to be locked in around 7.
> The difference between investment to collect data and investment to protect dat is there is no ROI for compliance (in any compliance domain) so the capital is not easily available.

And now GDPR can bundle both together, so that the ROI for collecting data pays for the cost of handling it reasonably, because otherwise you can't collect it.

It levels the playing field and fixes the broken incentive structure around data collection.
Yes, you could say that all selection operations work in visual mode by default. Combined with multi-cursor / multi-selection, this turns out to very powerful.
Jobs was a known quantity, though. I don't think you became a senior manager at Apple during his career if you didn't accept the risk of being emotionally abused from time to time.
How is my website? WyattTechCourses.com
s/they/he/. It was Linus himself who alone created git, within a few weeks (two or three). At first it was just a handful of shell scripts, but it was self-hosting pretty early on.
> If you're frustrated, simple insert mode (`i`) is all you need to get back to your comfort zone.

Also, something I wish I knew back when I was learning is `:set nonumber` to turn off the gutter and be able to copy things with the mouse (`:set number` turns it back on).

If I had known this, my experience wouldn't have been as bad as it was until I learned to use the registers.
Emotional capture is a thing

Basically a nation state forces people to adopt Stockholm syndrome under the guise of pragmatic acquiescence
“Fooled by randomness.”
> imagine a slightly-more-functional HN with separate "groups" for different subjects

How do you compare the site to Reddit? Curious since you're pretty much branding it as an alternative to Reddit by disclosing your previous job there.
Because I think of an ISP as a carrier, and don't believe it's their business to inspect traffic between me and their client for the purpose of facilitating transmission.
This is spot on. As a hiring manager for these type of positions, the primary thing I look for is a track record of using data to achieve business results. This of course creates a barrier for entering this field and makes those with this experience even more highly sought after.
I really like the idea of this, but how many jobs posted here are for senior or high experience positions? The whiteboard filter can still happen at any of these companies in junior developer ranks.

This just creates elitism where the "senior" developers get nice hiring processes, and the junior developers get stuck with traditional torture.
Using BitKeeper as the SCM for the Linux kernel always seemed like a bad idea and when issues between the company and the community peaked git was created.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-A-Short-Histo...
The Developers Union
I am having a hard time seeing how EU judgements will be enforceable in the US?
correct me if I am wrong this is list of companies requesting access to samples not the ones blocking development of generics.
I think you're wrong about the math requirements. The math is not very abstract, but requires a much deeper understanding of statistics than your post suggests. That's probably why you struggled to get hired.

My partner has a successful career in data science, but she has multiple degrees in mathematics - significantly more than your typical engineer is exposed to.
"2036 is too far out for them to count on not being detected, and on cars being the same."

Sorry, I conflated two things here. I meant someone in 2036 setting a logic bomb for something like a month in advance in their time, and as a separate question, how close one could get to such a virus today. As we keep wiring up our cars to networks (not necessarily "the Internet", but networks), it's only going to get easier.

One of the problems I think will happen with cars, only accelerated by self driving cars and the high probability that people will largely lease them rather than own them, is that the governments of the world are going to see a big pot of real-time surveillance data and real-time person control mechanisms and won't be able keep their hands off, mandating that cars start getting very connected and that cars have backdoors for authorities to take over and redirect them, etc. My scenario in 2036 may not even be a brilliant virus designer, but just one person with Python scripting skills and a bit too much access to the government control system.

It's not even that hard to imagine such a disaster happening accidentally. I'm sure, no sarcasm, that protections will be put into place, but there always has to be a developer back door mechanism of some sort, and there may be enough controls added, or they may not be added competently enough.

(And in terms of the protections of the cars themselves, remember that Stuxnet included the use of not one, but two code signing certificates that the Stuxnet authors clearly did not have true authority to use. If there's a way from the Internet to the control mechanism, even if it requires signed code, there's no guarantee a particularly capable and motivated enemy won't penetrate the protections.)
Bach at the Burger King
Don't worry, people will build those tools open-source the same way that they've built other tools for other purposes. I'm sure if a Django library for doing all those things doesn't already exist, it will very soon. It will become a popular project too, because at some point it will become the default.

I meant, respecting the law has been a thing for many years, you know? GDPR isn't really different.
I would totally do homework bullshit for a company/opportunity/compensation that I saw as “better” than what I have currently, but would not do so for anything else.
Agreed, I've been using in prod for a while and it is definitely not lightweight by any means, but it works well for the most part.
Another option would be to just put haproxy in front of Ghost, and have haproxy handle the SSL termination.
It doesn't have the awesome expanded desktop/screen mode, where the notifications and navigation bars are hidden all the time everywhere until you swipe up or down. This is why I never updated :/
I was pretty excited when Memorystore came out, as there is very little I enjoy less than managing redis servers. However, I've had nothing but trouble since switching. Applications than ran smoothly on redis instances deployed on kubernetes engine are giving me all sorts of problems now.

"NOREPLICAS Not enough good slaves to write" errors have been extremely common, sometimes followed by problems connecting. Then operations on the memorystore instance start pending (I mean "repairing"), taking 20+ minutes. During that time I obviously get connection refused errors. This usually comes with huge spikes in network in/out that are completely unexplained by the app pointing to the service.

I thought the pitch for MemoryStore was that it was a managed service; y'know, less time on devops and all of that. I've found the exact opposite to be the case. Pay more to Google, spend more time on devops, get a redis service that doesn't work.
“I don’t have time to label and expire all the food I prepare on top of serving meals to customers”

“I don’t have time to do all those structural calculations on top of all the properties I have to build”

“I don’t have time for all this silly human safety testing on top of all the drugs I have to develop”

Your statement is equivalent to the above. If you are unwilling to meet a relatively straightforward level or privacy and security for your users’ data, then personally I’m really glad that you’re going to prevent users from accessing it.
>Anyone here ever work with a genius who wasn't an asshole?

Absolutely. Those are the people we should want to work with and strive to become.
Kinda makes you wonder why they didn't build a way to detect when it had reached its target so that they could have the remnants on other machines removed.
I think its still valid if someone doesn't have a good-size body of work, however the more CS heavy it is and unrelated to the actual work the more you're optimizing for "did this person recently graduate with a CS degree".
I believe that I made that clear. He was a salesman, obviously a great one, for other people's ideas.
Yanny vs. Laurel: An Analysis by Benjamin Munson
a very large private company
America to Have the Next Jerusalem
But to be fair, those were provisions demanded by the American negotiators, and have been dropped in the updated CPTPP.
I have been programming with Material UI, every day, for the past year and have nothing but very positive comments to make about it. The team is excellent, the code is extremely reliable, and the

https://github.com/cssinjs/jss

just works.

Its simple, easy to use, and not having to deal with global stylesheets is a pleasure.

And they are just getting started.

I look forward to the future with this React toolkit.

An incredible effort has been made by the team members.
What will be your policies on adult content? And I don't just mean porn. For example, the BDSM community counts as "adult" but it's not necessarily pornographic.
I did. Verizon was listed on mine and I've never used them.
A Stunning, Sudden Fall for Najib Razak, Malaysia’s ‘Man of Steal’
from the docs:

Here's some of the main technology being used on Tildes:

Python 3.6 with the Pyramid web framework
PostgreSQL 10
Redis 4
intercooler.js and jQuery.
Your reading of the GDPR is wrong. There is no minimum fine. There is a maximum fine of €20m or 4% of global turnover, whichever is greater.
The word "parallax" is not appropriately used in that context. It's a misnomer.
ImpuestoCorrecto (YC W18) Built TurboTax for Latin America Without Code
All-purpose C++ app/game prototyping library
Non-Mobile link for those on desktop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junio_Hamano
I'm intrigued, but I think it could use some sort of a demo or something to get an idea of what to expect. As it stands I don't know if I really want an invite, because other than the ideology, which is great, I don't know what is there. (I get that it's a Reddit derivative, but still, I like to play with things before committing to them).
Out of topic but your defense for referencing Kaspersky makes me wonder why people would see a problem with it? I'm not familiar with the field and don't know who's who.
Is there really that much money to be made from rent-able scooters? I imagine a business can be made out of it but this level of competition seems amazing to me. There is no differentiation from the products.
The front page has had daily articles from mis-informed US tech startups collectively shitting themselves about GDPR for weeks.
Yes this is true, but you have to admit her story was helped on the up-ramp.
https://docs.tildes.net/technical-goals#use-modern-versions-...
Well, it's not like 1972 was centuries ago; not all artists working back then are dead, and some are still working (e.g. Lionel Richie).
I'm not suggesting anything excessive; I'm suggesting (based on a fairly large academic literature) that we know for a fact that a large amount of what is done in our education system does not provide any benefits that we can measure in any way (and not for lack of trying), and that for most of the knowledge that is taught for which we can't find tangible benefits, nearly none of it is retained (which invalidates arguments that it is providing intangible benefits). Most arguments for the educational status quo are based on hand-waving and appeals to magic. Suggesting that this is not an adequate way to justify the apparent waste of billions of hours of children's time is not reactionary Taylorism -- it's pointing out a glaring error that society is making due to the social desirability bias of a fantasy "education" that demonstrably makes people better with no opportunity costs or downsides.
Deploying Git over SSH entails locking the precise command line executable by the public key you use to authenticate. Locking SSH SendEnv down is mandatory too, otherwise thousands of people would have shell access to GitHub.com!

This isn't even theoretical, there was an environment-related bug not 5 years ago involving Git. At least BitBucket was impacted, I think GitHub were patched before it was announced
So not only are you dealing with the standard fare interview nervousness, etc..., but you're also feeling claustrophobic the entire time. Brilliant process they've got up there. People look at me sideways when I tell them that I have no interest in working for places like Facebook or Amazon or Google and these sorts of anecdotes are some real high-quality validation after having had to justify that stance for years.
> Linus Torvalds said in 2012 that one of his own biggest successes was recognizing how good a developer Hamano was on Git, and trusting him to maintain it.
Is this project trying to do anything to solve/improve manipulation / disinformation by large entities?

That's my largest concern in the modern era - information is very difficult to ingest not due to discovery, but trust. One finds it difficult to ingest information from a non-educated domain. Disinformation has made this problem infinitely worse.

Thoughts?
The epicycle theory was pretty clever and complex, and fully supported by data at the time.
I actually see this as a smart move in the context of a Fortune 100 company. It's often a good idea to build something (in this case, a data science capability) before you need it, so that when you do need it, it's already up and running. Also: there's value in giving any new technology a test drive.
Do they? It's kind of a mixed bag. I see about 60% say "well, if your side project doesn't respect your users privacy, maybe you shouldn't have a side project.", and the remaining 40% saying "I'm too scared of the consequences from doing illegal stuff"
Was Jobs actually technical enough to understand the substance of the technical discussion? I had/reported to a couple of not-so-technical managers for short stints in my 20 yr career and I always found it supremely annoying that they were often making misguided technical/business decisions based on most recent buzzwords and sales pitch from software/hardware vendors).
I think the invitation is extended by sharing the blog post.
Wait, isn't it life plus 70 years? If so, the only Beatles music that would be public domain any time soon would be if there were songs by Stuart Sutcliffe...
FYI All your subscriber's emails are accessible at https://whiteboardfree.com/email_subscribers.json since you didn't put any authentication on those endpoints. It's a basic Rails app so I'm guessing other users may got a hold of the list already.
pfSense will sell you a netgate 1U or 2U firewall appliance with full support:

https://www.pfsense.org/products/
The Mere Bones of Latin According to the Thought and System of Reginald
Hey everyone, sorry for this. It should be back up: http://blog.refdash.com/dynamic-programming-tutorial-example...
False: If this were true, I'd look like the Hulk by now
Woz had the ideal of giving everything away for free. Of course he had no business sense.

Pixar wanted to be a studio, Jobs wanted it to be a hardware/software company. The people of Pixar forced Jobs into letting it be what it is today.

Jobs recognized Ive for what he is and then Apple became what it is today.

Like I said, Jobs was good at latching on to people with vision and genius to make what him what he is.
Unlike patent law which protects novelty, copyright only protects originality. Violating copyright requires actual copying of material.

Theoretically, you could independently conceive of Count Dracula[1] and put him into your own work without violating someone else's copyright. To prove violation of copyright the copyright holder must as a preliminary matter provide evidence that the defendant likely had access or exposure to the copyrighted material. Only once that evidence exists could the fact finder infer, based on similarity, actual copying. For widely disseminated pop cultural material, however, exposure is a rather easy burden to meet.

[1] I presume for the sake of argument that the character Count Dracula is per se copyrighted. But I don't think that's true. AFAIU only certain stylized versions of that character are copyrighted. This necessarily follows from the fact that to show violation of copyright you must first identify the specific material that has been copied, and then show substantive similarity and the extent of copying. IMO modern copyright law is too liberal in this regard (i.e. favors copyright holders) and has gotten rid of many bright line rules that rejected infringement claims early on. But all of this absolutely matters if you're going to trial. The Oracle v Google case was fundamentally about how to construe similarity and extent in the context of APIs.
Great Storytelling: Examples from Alibaba Founder, Jack Ma
Here is a dumb thought I just had.

What if in stead of a giant stack of hard to nav papers...

...what if in stead each discipline would aim to publish a book????!

Each chapter would highlight the most important components of which the full version would be.... another book?

tier 2 of the books would simply refer to papers to provide even more additional reading.

The whole thing would keep it self up to date using version control and the closer to the front page of tier 1 the more extremely critical the review would be. An as-large-as-possible crowd sourced budget should be dedicated to reviewing and rewriting each of the book.

Each would be freely available online but every self respecting nerd would want a copy on his bookshelves.

A strict less is more policy would keep the books portable.

Technicality of the tier 1 books should be limited as much as possible in order to fit in a little encyclopedia of terms and methods.

By exposing the most important parts of a field to an audience as large as possible scientists would finally get the recognition they deserve which in turn would stimulate allocation of public funds.

A truly absurd idea, there, I said so myself.
Because otherwise some companies might conclude that it is cheaper to continue to violate the law and simply to pay the fine. See Volkswagen, which got fined billions for violating the law (and rightly so), and they're still in business and have not withdrawn from the markets where they were fined. But it looks as if they did learn their lesson (for the next 30 years or so, this wasn't the first time they got caught with something like that).
Thanks for sharing the link while it was down. Appreciate it.
Come on, does every cool thing need a stamp of approval by "experts" before publication?

"SQLite looks nice, but I would have double checked with Oracle engineers before announcing this as something novel"
> Skepticism about the EmDrive from Physicists has been nearly universal.

So what?

Skepticism and status quo consensus does not push any field forward into new territory. The vast majority of physicist I would argue are simply refiners of areas pioneered by a scant few others, or working in the industry (myself included). Like it or not, these refiner types aren't the ones earning Nobels. You see this in almost all fields. Current AI advancement originated with maybe 3 researchers pioneer theories, its didn't spontaneously manifest from the consensus Computer Science crowd. Its the open minded mavericks on the outskirts types looking for a way to walk the line or even circumvent current understanding that stumble upon possible breakthrough science where others can move in and refine.

Sorry, but it really bugs me when I see relatively smart (but still not Physicist) techy types (relative physics laymen in my mind) defaulting to "it cant be therefor it isn't" logic. This is the Argument from Ignorance logical fallacy. Have they even bothered to read the alternative explanations that might explain the experimental result? You can read a few in my wiki link above. If not then what the F do they know then! Sure it could be just measurement error, or it could be the biggest breakthrough in space travel we've seen and may lend credence to an obscure theory such as pilot waves and quantum vacuum flux. Better not look under that rock through because it might upset the consensus who says there's nothing there. /s People don't realize how closed minded that sort of mindset really is. Armchair know-nothings looking for anything to shoot down and pat themselves on the back for deserve condescension.
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-absolute-truth-a...
Too bad they didn't make Git LFS part of Version 2[0]. Most vendors[2] support LFS already but because it isn't required, some still lack it and its support cannot be assumed.

[0] https://git-lfs.github.com/

[1] https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Implementations
There are other fields where the former approach is taken over the latter— such as painting, sculpture, literature and other kinds of art.
It's about as exciting as having sent in your resume and hearing back from them. So not nothing, but don't picture yourself getting chair massages while sipping draft kombucha just yet.
Git was created by Linus Torvalds, but out of the 50k+ commits on the repo, only 250 or so are from him, with only 14 in the past 6 years. [1]

[1] https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors?from=2012-03-...
> Have you been running a socially controversial business?

For about 20 years, yes.
There's a difference between allowing a line-item veto (which is a very bad, dangerous thing) and something which prevents unrelated legislation from being packaged together.
Nah. Vim bindings in VS Code are the sweet spot for me. Some of the Vim emulation isn't perfect but having something like 99% of Vim is plenty plus I get my preferred layout, debugging tools, etc.
Because if you tunnel through ssh, you can signal v2 using ssh mechanism of setting environment variables. If you don't tunnel, you don't have this option. This is clearly described in the article.
tldr; People tunnel, and then need to be really jarred before they untunnel.

(but that's not to criticize your details, I love those details.)
Congratulations, you're the 1% who got things out of it.

As a former teacher, I can assure you that (optimistically) 90% of what happens in school does not teach any problem-solving skills (and that's backed up by the literature). The 10% that does is in literacy and mathematics up to Algebra (not including Geometry, which almost no one remembers, nearly zero people use, has been demonstrated to make little or no difference in problem-solving skills, and yet is still somehow a required course almost everywhere).
Instead of having some kind of switch or sensor to know when the read head was at track 0, the stepper motor just banged the head repeatedly against the metal stop until it was sure things were in alignment. This was that "chukchukchukchuk" sound you heard.

I remember playing around with the delays in that routine to make the head move at different frequencies. With a little bit of playing around you could make the drive play music.
Lord Byron: Don Juan in Hell
You are input to a classification routine. The job of those designing the routine is to reduce the false positive rate to as close to 0 as they can without incurring too high a false negative rate.

So this sucks if you don't fit the model well in a way that has you often end up as a false negative - but that doesn't' mean the model is broken.
No upvotes so I guess this is a market of one :D