skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I come from a country with free education and the latter part is just plain wrong.

Autodidact people are nearly always terrible programmers because they haven’t learned how to think. The few of them that actually understand CS principles are typically unable to work in teams because they’ve never been taught the fundamentals of working together. If they do have the right sort of personality (extremely rare in CS) they wont have the business side of things, making them unable to work with the people they are making systems for.

Of course I lead teams in digitization where, self management, team work, business and customer interaction is part of what my programmers need to do.

I’ve hired a lot of people by now, back between 1995 and 2005 a lot of them didn’t have much of an education behind them, and we’ve frankly spent 5 years cleaning up their mess since.

Today we simply require a degree.

It’s a little different in the IT department, they prefer certificates over degrees, but a lot of university engineering programs know this and give their students the essentials.

We do have a mix of technical degrees. There is the candidate or bachelor(people typically never stop here) at the universities for the full education, but we also have various academy degrees that are “almost bachelor” programs, which focus less on the theoretical and science things and more on practical application. Both roads are perfectly fine, but you really need that piece of paper if you want a job that requires any sort of thinking.
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Why is Mark Meru allowed to pay back only 10% of his discretionary income? He has a $225,000 income and can pay back more than $1,590 a month for the education that got him to this salary level. Then he could make a dent in the principal.
Anecdotal single point of evidence: I was trying something for a project at work, and between raw OpenGL, unity, and unreal, the latter two let me get a POC up and running way faster. I work with dozens of ex game industry people, and none of them have done anything from scratch for AAA. Every major studio has tons and tons of layers of engine abstractions to make development easier and faster.

An apt analogy in the service world is that when I want to write a service, regardless of how many years experience I have, I don't implement my own load balancer. Could I? Yes. Should I? Only if my project is a load balancer.

Build what you need. Buy/ participate in OSS for the rest.
You illustrated the point. The GPs comment is philosophical but there's still people who are fooled by these comments into thinking they have novelty, when it's simply a position that has existed since inception.
"link tax" is aimed at mature aggregators and search engines, someone you can actually sue. GoogleBot, BingBot and friends do not change or spoof their user agents.
Personally I think this data should be private. There should be some type of pass through so that A domain name owner doesn’t have to worry about their personal information being connected with the domain. We know it’s possible because of the proxy services, that should just become standard.
Numbers ending with 2-4 (except for 12-14) put the noun in singular genitive case in Russian. 5-10, on the other hand, require a plural noun (also in genitive). Since plurality is not regular and plural cases are even less so, some people will have trouble with deriving the correct plural case for some words. Something similar to some English speakers sometimes being confused about plural for Greek and Latin origin words ("forums"/"fora", "viruses"/"virii" etc.).
Costs are out of control and university interests are not aligned with student interests in this matter. It seems like federal educational lending should be capped at some lifetime maximum ($200-300k per student?). The higher ed industry will figure out the cost side of the equation in a hurry when students no longer have unlimited access to credit.
Flint is a solved problem as far as logistics and planning are concerned; lead levels fell below the acceptable amount in 2017 and the pipes are being replaced systematically through 2020. The bottled water program has been extended despite the state terminating it; the company that is privately funding it to the tune of 100,000 bottles per week is the very evil corporation Nestle. (Note: They actually do some terrible shit, but give credit where it's due here.)

The original problem in Flint had nothing to do with money that someone could throw at it and everything to do with government corruption and potentially racism. Is the plan to privatize cities in hopes of better and more efficient oversight, giving Elon/Bezos cities to purchase?

Here is a list of celebrities and rich people who have donated to Flint, since you brought it up. It is not an insignificant list nor an insignificant amount of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis#Donations_o...

>> but we could easily just freight bottled water in far cheaper

This is being done by Nestle, and had been funded by many other rich people as well.

The headlines of "Flint still doesn't have clean water" are technically true, but the problem has a solution being applied to it. Upending all the pipes tomorrow by throwing billions of dollars at contractors to do it will cause the entire city of Flint to have no water instead of potentially risky water (despite testing showing that the water is almost entirely fine), so that's not a solution either.
It's called ClojureScript. BTW, at a first glance it addresses everything Mint does, and runs circles around it. https://clojurescript.org/guides/quick-start
How is Namecheap e.g. providing an option to hide your whois information somehow shady?
Even though 100% of the creative and production process is in Shenzhen, the bulk of the profit is not in the hand of them. The details might be a bit wrong, but the way that the people who resell the product did that was very noteworthy to me.
I think Americans particularly dislike this obsequious type of service. People from other countries love it. Steve Jobs famously had very little household help and their family did their own household chores for a very simple reason that he couldn’t buy his way out of — he didn’t like strangers in his fucking house all the time. The best writing on this is of course David Foster Wallace for Harper’s.
Why do you (and others) lump GDPR with this law? There is nothing common to them.

Other than people who actually profit of personal data, I have not met one person who isn't in favor of the GDPR. This law is different.
It’s not shady to not want your home address published to every visitor to your website.
Since it's your first time as an entrepreneur I'd suggest you select your easiest idea to execute that you think someone would pay you for.

I'd also ignore most entrepreneurial advice out there. Half of it is wrong and the other half is self serving for the author. Your time will be better spent hustling your product and learning from your mistakes in real time. Experience is invaluable but the people qualified to give insight are usually too busy with their other stuff.
It is not productive to think up technological solutions where a political one is required. Legislate for stronger privacy. Disallow companies to collect/store this data.
This was discussed in depth in another post a few days ago. This guy also lives in a 5000 square-foot home, and based on a little digging by others, it appears he has more of a spending problem then a debt problem.
has some things to teach us today, but few are interested

The mainframe style is being reinvented in half-arsed way as “microservices”, they are super fashionable right now.

I shudder to think what monstrosity the full stack crowd will come up with when they try to reinvent CICS too...
The reason to hate on Bezos, Musk et al is the same reason why we hate cancer: an entity that is malfunctioning has found a way to maximize short term gain at the expense of long term survival.

Worse, while the billions they have can buy them a private island filled with whatever perversions they enjoy they are too poor by an order of magnitude or three to actually finance real space exploration.

It takes unfathomable amounts of time, effort and money to bring in a technology from R&D to the consumer market. "Entrepreneurs" merely privatize the gains in the last step of the process and call themselves a genius.

Space exploration is so far away from commercialization that the private market will not be able to finance any thing past low earth orbit for another generation or three. By then the climate change already locked in would make the world hospitable for Lizard People and put most of our major cities 0.2m below sea level.
I didn't say that everybody who hides their data is doing something shady, I said that a shady site - where someone would actually want the information about who is responsible for the content - is hiding the WHOIS information anyways.
I don't disagree with the main thrust of this comment, but it doesn't have much to do with comparing spaceflight with clean water. One is solvable by the tech community (maybe?) and the other isn't because there are political obstacles in the way. And when tech companies try to solve political issues, people on HN and everyone else who leans marginally liberal get increasingly pissed off that rich people are messing with dem dere laws again.
I was there. I spent the night before in Sausalito, and we came from the north, reaching almost the middle before encountering the wall of people from the SF side.

It was damn scary. People continued to crush in from both directions, and the bridge swayed despite it not being particularly windy. People in midspan were yelling in both directions for people to turn around. The trampling deaths at the Who concert in Cincinnati were not yet forgotten.

Just when we felt in serious trouble, people finally got the hint that they weren't going to make it across, and they retreated.
I suggest you look up the history of road building in the U.K. The holdout problem is far from insuperable, even without eminent domain.
I don't understand why they insist on fooling with carbon, when phosphorus forms nice sheets like graphene that are naturally semiconconducting.

It probably has a lot to do with appealing to the prejudices of grant committees.
Open Data Kit is an awesome tool! Our NGO has used it for public health surveys and other data collection applications in the DR Congo where internet coverage is spotty, literacy is low, and transportation is a logistical nightmare. It does exactly what it says on the tin and enables our community health workers to gather data in challenging places with just a phone and extra battery pack. As a bonus, the development community is great as well!

Really glad to see this project getting some attention!
>> real space exploration

I assume you are the arbiter of real space exploration, then? The last fifty years don't show real progress on this endeavor, so I'm not exactly sure who is going to do this for real if it isn't the status quo or these two billionaires who are engaged in a pissing contest.

>> "Entrepreneurs" merely privatize the gains in the last step of the process and call themselves a genius.

Ah yes, another person who thinks Musk is not an engineer and that SpaceX somehow doesn't... manufacture all their engines and 95%+ of their stuff here in America... while NASA was using Russian equipment and most private companies were launching using foreign material, land, and resources.

Right. He's just free-riding. Then what were we and everyone else doing before SpaceX undercut ULA (leaning on Russian tech) by massive amounts?

>> By then the climate change already locked in would make the world hospitable for Lizard People and put most of our major cities 0.2m below sea level.

I should really read comments back to front before spending any time on them.
Program a better flight path to avoid people.

How is it refueled after landing hundreds of miles away?
Everything new is the best until it becomes your day job.
Just improved my productivity
I get that. It's just that this is the first coverage that I recall which doesn't focus on unemployable graduates.
The state should get out of the business of guaranteeing student loans entirely and instead only give grants. The loan guarantee system is exactly what misaligns university and student interests in loans. Universities have no disincentive to give students loans they can't pay back.

I don't think a cap would change university behavior - it would only affect a few students, who would be tossed out by the university to make way for the next students.
You can explore putting something like :

require([
"base/js/namespace",
"base/js/events"
],
function(Jupyter, events){

events.on('finished_execute.CodeCell', function(){
// execute black here
});
});

In ~/.jupyter/custom/custom.js.
190 million, but your point remains. Exponential growth is surprising even when you understand it.

The fact we don't see the galaxy teeming with life is either
1) intelligent life inevitably evolves rapidly into something unrecognisable
2) we are unique, and not just in our galaxy. Once you hit galactic scale civilisation, neighbouring galaxies don't take long
3) we are part of that expansion
If you want to sell a game engine, sell a game first.
When I was about 10 there was nothing I wanted more than to have a program that took minutes to build into an .EXE. In my mind that implied complexity and 'real' programming. Of course, as a professional 30 years later, waiting for compilers is something I could do without.
"Computing history's not a circle, but it's damn sure a spiral."

If it was a circle we'd have better code and framework reuse. Sigh.
I might be wrong, but LocationSmart wouldn't be able to work under GDPR. So the correct title should be "Location data is no longer private in non-GDPR countries".
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Exactly. I am in India and I frequently get SMS and calls about web hosting services, they use the name and number I provide while registering the domain. It is definitely not shady if I want my info hidden from these spammers.
Convenient and tweakable Atom+Markdown+Pandoc+Jupyter experience, export2ipynb
In the proposed tool chain you:

* Write Markdown in Atom (with all available packages that help much),

* Insert Jupyter code cells and deploy via Hydrogen,

* Apply any Pandoc or text filters via [Pandoctools] (https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/pandoctools) to convert to markdown/html/pdf/ipynb,

____* Pandoctools lets you define text filters pipelines ("profiles") and apply them to any file by simply adding two lines to markdown metadata section and opening the file with Pandoctools. You define text conversion algorithm once and then just use it with few 'Open with' clicks (or even with one short key with Atom package).

____* Collecting Jupyter cells outputs is also a Pandoc filter,

____* There are even working cross-references in exported ipynb,

____* Can convert markdown to markdown in order to post-convert with existing tools,

____* Optionally write math in SugarTeX that is a more readable LaTeX language extension and a transpiler to LaTeX.

[Example doc](https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/pandoctools/blob/master/examples): from markdown with Jupyter python code blocks, SugarTeX math and cross-references to ipynb notebook.

See more about all mentioned tools in [Pandoctools repo](https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/pandoctools).

There are also recommendations of nice Atom packages and even good open-source font fallback chains for Unicode-rich markdown documents (monospace for editor, serif/sans for output).
The man who gets the most press in the tech community is trying to launch rockets to Mars and build electric supercars and networks that cost ludicrous amounts of money. Whether you think these ideas are any good or not, people are doing large things in our society. It ain't all web apps.
Catapults alone are good enough technology to prove why the wall is an idiotic idea. The wall is an effigy anyway for Trump, while he may actually believe that it's a good idea, that's not how it functions in reality. It's an anchor, a symbol, a thing to point to that combats illegal immigration and is a symbol of nationalism.

Now Trump might actually think it's a good idea - and I actually think he does - so that's absurd. But realistically it operates as a political beacon, and one that's quite effective.
Aerones have developed a drone that can haul a human - https://www.aerones.com/eng/news/?text_id=18
And who is going to stop them, when even multi-million companies just shallow the pill(like GDPR) and even try to market it positively that they are gonna adopt it first.
Penn State still teaches COBOL[3]. Rutgers has classes that require COBOL[2].

COBOL is also available at University of Southern California[0], Iowa State[1], and California State University[4].

And those are just a bunch of universities I picked off the top of my head.

Anyone who thinks COBOL is dead is misinformed. There's obviously a need for it, or it wouldn't be offered.

According to this article[5] from last month, COBOL is still widely used in the financial industry.

[0]:https://cse.sc.edu/class
[1]:http://catalog.iastate.edu/previouscatalogs/2014-15/azcourse...
[2]:http://catalogs.rutgers.edu/generated/nwk-ug_0608/pg23255.ht...
[3]:http://undergraduate.bulletins.psu.edu/university-course-des...
[4]:https://catalog.csustan.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=...
[5]https://increment.com/programming-languages/cobol-all-the-wa...
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Couldn't agree more. EU regulations are playing into the hands of large established dinosaurs at the cost of indie and SME businesses. Im really concerned at how this will pan out.
"This alarming discovery (decline in insect population over time), made by mostly amateur naturalists who make up the volunteer-run Entomological Society Krefeld, raised an obvious question: Was this happening elsewhere? Unfortunately, that question is hard to answer because of another problem: a global decline of field naturalists who study these phenomena."

-- This reminds me of similar to the decline of in-the-field reporters. The concept of an advanced society that seems to be shedding "situational awareness" in a variety of areas is disturbing.
A 20lb weight can kill a person from a far lower altitude than a parachute could meaningfully slow its descent. Parachutes aren’t magic.
And I don't want my home address, phone number, email, name or the name of my company on there.
Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization
I respect ICANN for the most part but the publicity of WHOIS data is seriously awful. On one of my new domains, I made the mistake of forgetting to turn on WHOIS privacy. A couple days later I finally realized that I'd forgotten, after wondering why I was suddenly getting so many spam calls and emails. Two years later, I still occasionally get the spam... Every time I'm woken up by a robocall telling me about a $10000 business loan I die a little inside.
The registrars already ruined any transparency, that WHOIS was supposed to offer by offering "WHOIS protection" services.

So those who couldn't afford WHOIS privacy addons, now get them for free. All good in my book.
This is europe. We use laws to prevent conflict not to build a battlefield. We don't have ambulance chasing lawers here.
Yay Belgium makes it better! Go Belgium!
>> I wrote plenty of programs that worked the first time I ran them, something that seldom happened to me in more modern programming environments

You know, I never really thought of programming in this way. You are very correct about this and it makes me sad in a way.
A global array of telescopes reveals details on event horizon scales in Sgr A*
That's exactly the point: topical application vs. systemic ingestion. I've yet to see a credible model for ingestion having any uniformly beneficial effect.

Toothpastes, rinses, and topical application by professionals are fine. Otherwise, I'll pass.
Jamming drones is easier than you think, the new battleground will be autonomous flying to avoid trivial radio/gps jamming. MIT has open source code for this already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qah8oIzCwk

https://github.com/andybarry/flight
I was not in position to block away time like that for years. Currently I am in such position, but that is rather exceptional state. (Home was worst than in work actually.)
I find 'apropos' pretty indispensable, because it lets you find the thing that does the thing you need, so you can read its man page.
On Android 5, every time you enable GPS, a popup comes up asking you to share location with Google. There is a checkbox "don't ask me again", but if you tick it, the button "Decline" becomes inactive [1]. So it is going to pop up every time you want to know your location unless you agree. This attitude is openly hostile to the user (and yes, that's why we need more regulation).

[1] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/115944/in-lollip...
پل لاغر پلی با نورپردازی زیبا،خلوتگاه عشاق در هلند
If you think being a large company means its user agent doesn't change, you haven't been monitoring user agents very long.

The fact that you choose to use Bing as an example proves my point. Bing is only eight years old. Before that it identified itself as msnbot.
It's a hard balance.

On the one hand public resources (like domain names - or plots of land) have traditionally always been publicly recorded.

But spammers have made that unpleasant.

Does the GDPR apply to records documenting the owner of a house in England? It's not really all that different with domain names.
Pomodoro helps me to stay focused when i'm trying to sustain concentration. I recently discovered this "group pomodoro" virtual study hall [0]. Somehow, committing to doing pomos in a virtual room with strangers committed to the same often gives me just that extra little bit of motivation/accountability I need to stick with the current task and not let myself get distracted.

Disclaimer: No affiliation with Complice nor Less Wrong.

[0] https://complice.co/room/lesswrong
>> instead I tried to dive into Linux and spent years trying to get just daily-user comfortable

Ended up being the right bet though. :)

Did the same thing myself. Struggled for years in Slackware and other builds... had to write my own ADSL driver for broadband to work. Had a dual booting Gateway 2000 PC and always cringed when I selected Linux from the GRUB booter... but it served me very well decades later.
First off, thanks for the well written response! I love discussions on here.

I'm not suggesting privatizing cities though my replies specifically. What I mean is on the broader perspective, we as a society are spending 10s/100s of billions to get to the moon and make a habitable base.

I totally understand that many of the problems communities face are political, and just throwing money at these kinds of issues won't solve those problems. I'm in favor of funding NASA with taxes (my taxes included), etc. I think flint wasn't the best example for this specifically.

I just think that there are certainly problems communities are facing that can be solved by paying R/D of civil and scientific engineers to work on solving these issues. It's great that we can recycle urine on the ISS, but can we help people in less fortunate places who have no water?

I'm NOT saying these issues can be solved by only throwing money at them. But if we as a society are spending tens or hundreds of billions (Let's include private companies and any other space programs from any nation because I'm considering this an international effort) to make the moon habitable, that's hundreds of billions not spent on helping many fixable problems that will immediately provide significant improvements to quality of life to many lives (say drinkable water in 3rd world nations, etc). I'm not saying we should spend all of that money on not going to space, just that we should consider what we're really achieving vs. what we know we can effectively achieve in terms of bettering humans as a society.