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I think "computer science" is trying to be two things, and it needs to only be one thing.

"Computer science" should be about the theory of programming. It should be a department in the college of science, like, say, chemistry. "Software engineering" should be a separate department in the college of engineering, like chemical engineering.

And just as chemical engineers need to know a fair amount of chemistry, so software engineers need to know a fair amount of computer science. But just as a chemistry degree, by itself, does not really prepare one to be a chemical engineer, so I fear that a computer science degree, by itself, does not really prepare one to be a software engineer.

What is software engineering? It is efficiently creating, at scale, programs that work. I don't thing computer science departments teach this well (if at all). What's the largest program that someone ever has to deal with in a four year CS degree? Probably writing a compiler, which might run to 10,000 lines. I'd like to see a class where you have to add features to a 200,000-line program. They'll learn that a 200,000-line program isn't just 20 times the problems of a 10,000-line program - it has new problems at that scale, problems that are the domain of software engineering rather than CS.

I think, as programming is practiced in the world outside academia, software engineering is at least as relevant as CS, and I think our CS programs are doing an inadequate job of teaching it.
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Related, Ted Nelson recently posted a series of videos describing the important ideas on Xanadu, the original hypertext project: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac#
The stock popped 9% today but is still trading about $17 away from the $109 Dell offered per share. Sounds like a good buy but I don’t know enough of the details of the new structure or deal to know.
Anyone know, who owns the content on reddit? Could the mod/admin of a sub, export all conversations to another framework, or a federated one? Assuming there was an easy way to do so.
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It's possible to de-noise Reddit if you're picky about your subscriptions and avoid /r/all. Reddit is actually quite useful for me because of that.
“Half a decade of experience” doesn’t sound like much these days.
I am a big fan of Reddit, give them a few dollars every month. I just stopped reading reddit on my iPhone: I don’t like the mobile app and the mobile web. I use the desktop version on my iPad Pro and MacBook. I don;t need to read Reddit on my phone.

I really wish they would write a great mobile web app. I use Facebook once a week to catch up on family stuff, and go all mobile. I also use Twitter sometimes, always mobile.

I try to avoid other sites that try to force me to install an app. I can do without their content.
I don't think anyone said you couldn't land a rocket. Folks have been looking in to doing that for a long time, we just didn't have the technology or enough investment in space to make it happen. He was just one of the first ones to come along and bring enough capital and technology to bear on the problem.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely admire what Elon Musk is capable of. But it's worth being realistic when we draw opinions of leaders lest we fall victim to hero worship.
Yes! It would be AWESOME if it were possible to review patches and pull requests (glorified patches + git merge) from the command line. It would be nice to do this from Mutt, but the issue with Mutt is that configuring it to (a) work with MS Exchange or Gmail (less so) and (b) configuring address lookups and calendar invites so that they work seamlessly every time is a lot of work with very little love.
I live in the Midwest US (specifically southern Wisconsin). Our temperature generally ranges from maybe -10 to +90 F or roughly -20 to +30 C, with occasional weeks that go beyond this range.

I commute to work by bike throughout the year. Admittedly, I avoid the worst of the summer heat by adjusting my work hours so I leave for work before it gets too hot. Also, I'm kind of a freak in the sense that I don't sweat a lot.

If you're curious about this, the weather history feature for Weather Underground will produce nice graphs for most places worldwide.
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I had a few reactions to this concept.

1) The idea of a set of reusable APIs around data ownership could actually be the foundation of a new internet. If it becomes impossible to concentrate data, the system will be more resistant.

2) The appeal of the Internet lies in the services that are available to users. A decentralized system doesn't appeal to capitalism, value is best captured through centralization and intermediation. Capitalist enterprises produce the bulk of services at the moment. This is a major adoption hurdle.

3) Dr. Berners-Lee appears to be a (digital) anarchist at heart, and it's a painfully beautiful vision.

4) He is partnering with capitalists to try to achieve an anarchist vision. This is a contradiction in terms. Capitalism is about competition for the working class (i.e. users), domination and centralization.

5) It sounds like what he wants is a more egalitarian and democratic system. He might want to talk to more radical political theorists (I assume he may have already in the decades he's been kicking around).

I wish Dr. Berners-Lee the best. I hope Solid gets some adoption. I've heard some people are using Mastodon. Here's hoping it's a trend. Nonetheless, if enough people start migrating, the corporations will offer them something to come back. After all, they can afford to, tech profits in established companies are obscene.
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I disagree. Reddit has done a good job of branching itself out across various diverse communities, and has been experimenting with geographical location based customization among other things which I feel should be enough of a buffer against going down Digg's path.
> none trickles down to the actual homeless.

Trickle down doesn't work for people who do not contribute to the society in any way. Why do many homeless don't? I don't know, but that's what any government effort should focus on. Spending money and hoping it will trickle down without addressing the root cause is stupid.
Agreed, it's actually kind of awful that it takes about ten years to hit the pay ceiling. 2-5x, if only!
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The funny thing is that Reddit completely inadvertently killed one of the possible heirs in Voat. That site had potential to steal the traditional Reddit audience due to Reddit's mismanagement. However Reddit's crackdown on hate on the site caused a big exodus of problem users to Voat. The end result is that Voat is now a vile alt-right wasteland that presents no threat of stealing Reddit's mainstream audience.
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What your describing sounds a lot like Zagster on my campus. From what I understand, they work with universities, corporations, and cities to build out their bike sharing network. It seems like Zagster is trying to play the role of bike sharing contractor.
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Because people associate blockchain with gambling (ICOs being advertised on billboards solidifies this), people that didn't Gamble and win big are jealous of those that did (crypto-millionaires are definitely a thing) and its usefulness outside of being digital currency are still limited (though I would REALLY like to see it replace centralized ledgers and give the banks/VISA a run for their money).
The existing tech he's referring to is what we're approaching with the web as it is now (silos of centralized systems, in which information could be controlled), and the irony is that a large part of why decentralized systems (and tim's construction) are notable is to avoid such a scenario. They explicitly do not solve the problem of fake news, because they explicitly do not want to live in the world where fake news is a solved problem (because the issues that go with its solution are far worse than the problem of fake news).

The problem is that it is possible to do, and the solution to it is not something we want in general, but we're heading towards it anyways, and TBL is trying to avoid that with his machinations, and the commenter is effectively asking "how does this solve a problem that would naturally be solved with a solution we really, really don't want, and TBL is going out of his way not to solve?".
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There isn’t, but there isn’t any in Reddit.com the website either.
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I was actually just thinking earlier today that HN's great strength is its focus on quality of discourse, and it would be great if it leaned into that even more. I would love if it were made extremely clear at signup and whenever possible afterward guidelines such as,

1) Comments should be well thought-out, politely written, and supported by facts
2) Down-votes should be used for comments that are uncivil or unproductive; even if you disagree with the point made, a comment has value if a good-faith effort has been made to engage in constructive conversation.

These are similar to the existing guidelines—and I'm sure they could be fleshed out and worded better—but I feel the site would really benefit from even more emphasis on points like these. At signup, and then at convenient parts later on—when the user's karma unlocks the downvote capability for instance. There could even be a sort of "self-moderation" triggered by things like excessive down-voting or flagging, where it would remind the user of the guidelines and show them several of their votes, then just ask them to review and make sure they're using the buttons appropriately. Another possibility would be, whenever a user down-votes, require them to choose one of several categories of justification, like with a flag. That would quickly make it clear that the down-vote is for poor comments, rather than ones you personally disagree with. It might even be useful to have a similar—but probably optional—choice for up-votes; one nice options would be something like, "I disagree with this, but it's well argued." That kind of thing would give the ranking algorithms more variables to play with, hopefully improving results over time. Those are just some possibilities, and I'm sure there are many other options including by moderators when necessary.

The main thing though would be to make the guidelines very clear. My hope would be that a focus on quality of discourse, rather than on the types of content that are allowed, would allow more controversial topics to be discussed productively, as well as prevent unpopular opinions (when presented productively) from being drowned out. Ideally, the specific "off-topic" subjects could even be removed from the guidelines, since there are intellectually interesting discussions to be had on many different topics. Of course we wouldn't want to be overwhelmed with political topics to the extent that nothing else makes it to the homepage, but if that were to happen perhaps a dedicated subsection could be used, rather than an outright ban. Perhaps that would be preferable regardless, since many HN'ers come here to enjoy stimulating content and discussion outside strongly polarizing topics. Regardless though, I feel the site should double down on its focus on rationality and civility, and take every opportunity to influence new and existing users in that direction.
Reasons it's trading below $109:

* The deal isn't a done thing. Shareholders could reject it. (Why would they? Beats me. They can take the premium and turn around and buy ordinary VMW shares, right?)

* The deal is anticipated to close in Q4. It may take longer, and end of Q4 is six months out anyway. 109/92 is an 18.5% premium. If you can generate more than 18.5% on cash over six months, or over the longer period of time you anticipate the deal taking to close, there's no reason to buy DVMT.

That said, 18.5% in six months is a pretty fantastic 37% annualized return, so the market much be pretty skeptical about the timeframe, chances of the deal closing, or both.

Obligatory disclaimer: I'm a Dell employee (software engineer). I don't own any shares of DVMT or VMW (aside from any fractional ownership via broad-market index funds).
So the intended latency of requests in your case is 2-3 seconds?
Wallenberg is behind EQT and they aren't so much industrialists as crony capitalists and oligarchs. They are the driving force behind, as well as one of the main profiteers of, privatization in Sweden in recent years. Thomas von Koch, the head of EQT, has said on national TV that he thinks Sweden should be more like Singapore. Leif Östling most recently had to resign as head of the main employers organization after revelations of tax planning and the Rausing family isn't really a role model for anyone. So they are all pretty much crooks.

I guess EQT mostly does what it says on the tin, restructure and sell companies. If you ever wondered why so many people only have relatively expensive cable internet in Sweden instead of being connected directly to widely available fiber networks that is to a large extent because of EQT.
Red Hat is in every F500 business in a big way. they aren't struggling.
It's trivially true. A worker produces something and gets a fraction of their value paid back to them. They would not have been hired if it were not so.
Your first link, while from the case, has little to do with the appeal. To illustrate, that document (#177) happened long before the trial, and now we’re up to #485. The rest of the response makes faulty assumptions.

Amazing how “fabricated evidence” goes in one ear and out the other. “Of course you’re guilty- the fabricated evidence proves it!”
it's too bad that the level of nutritional education taught is laughable

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Many were there from the start, and then some changed a few months later, and then the whole thing changed radically a year after that... which is part of the point. Business-case software is always a moving target.
There isn't anything going on with the exception of ignorance on the part of the WSJ, Forbes and The Verge. You're explicitly granting a third party app access to your email. If I decide to use Outlook for iOS or Android I'm granting Microsoft permission to access my Apple email or Gmail.
And Slackware is neither. What's the point?
If you listen to the NPR story above you will want to know that about a month later they ran a followup story.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/25/466555217...
"I asked on Twitter yesterday how helpful people found computer science in writing software."

should be corrected to:

"I asked [a bunch of nerds who read an uber nerd's Twitter ]on Twitter yesterday how helpful people found computer science in writing software."

Let's be honest, you can get pretty far without even knowing O(n), what the hell a linked list is, and how to implement your own hash table. It sure helps to swing that big graph search DFS dick on Hacker News though.*

*For LoB applications
>Nobody cares much about GPA, when you could have built something amazing instead.

That seems to imply you were 100% guaranteed to build something amazing just by not doing homework, which we all know is far from the truth.
> While I would like to think that humans are intrinsically motivated to _do_, experience shows me that most people are content to merely consume. Technology engineered to keep us scrolling only seems to exasperate the issue.

Reminds me of the concept of interpassivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpassivity. We maybe be intrinsically motivated to _do_, but we have developed technology that can satiate this desire, e.g. watching someone else play video games on twitch.tv.
... with 7 upvotes (as of now) and 0 comments.

Are you annoyed that you didn't get the Internet points for it?
I don't know if "esoteric" is the word. You're saying, lots of people seem to believe that the advantage fast electronic market making has over "conventional" trading is a form of front-running.

That is true. But: it is not.

Lots of people also believe that high-end market research (for instance, targeted research and maybe even electronic surveillance about how many widgets a company has sold) is a form of insider trading. But: it is not, even though lots of people say that, and for the same reason.

In both cases, people believe there is something shady about people going to extraordinary lengths to obtain a trading advantage. And, in both cases, not only is the market resilient to those efforts to gain advantage, but the markets are theoretically improved by them. The point of a market is to expediently arrive at the best (as in, most reflective of intrinsic value) price for something, and to make it efficient for people to buy and sell at that price.
Audacity never required me to save over existing files or magnetic tape. Why do you say it's a linear editor?
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First Stuy, then UofC goes test-optional, and now CMU eliminating demonstrated interest in their application process...the race to mediocrity.
> now it's a floating bar at the bottom when reading comments that for some reason I can't get rid of despite the x button

The x button works for me, but when I load an other page it reappears. So reddit wants me to dismiss the floating bar for every page I visit on the site.

I'm curious to learn about the thinking behind building out such dark patterns. Have the reddit employees tried using the site on mobile while logged out for extended periods of time? If the answer is yes, I would love to know how they justify building out such a feature. Is there pressure to grow the app installs metric? It sometimes feels like reddit is losing touch with the community.

There's another variation of the popup where the button to install the app is huge and the link to proceed to the mobile site is tiny. It's also pretty easy to accidentally click on the button to download the app. Here's an image : https://i.imgur.com/rSS8HoI.png
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Then this workflow doesn't work for those groups. So what? It works for many others.
For anyone trying to figure out what's actually going on, that does appear to be the best link.

It basically boils down to: OP committed (alleged) fraud. The government used a spreadsheet populated from the defrauded's database to come to a figure for fraud, and submitted the spreadsheet as evidence. OP contends he needs access to the original database to satisfy as evidence, as a spreadsheet is potentially modifiable, but apparently doesn't allege that the data was actually modified.

Or, put another way, OP is insisting that a formatted report of SELECT * FROM table WHERE user_id=10343; should be inadmissible as evidence in court.

Money quote from the judgement: "Many of Defendants' arguments are better placed as questions concerning authentication. However, as this was not raised in the briefs, any argument to this effect was waived."
Succinctly isn’t the word I would choose. A 9-page opinion with this number of issues brought is sloppy.

Check the sound bytes under exhibit B on the evidence page to hear the author of that opinion and tell me with a straight face that he got it right.
Great, send the losers to Asia.
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I wonder how de Blasio's proposal would lead to different patterns of where people live in the city - it seems that to play this game (and it sounds like many parents are very motivated to), it makes sense to send your kids to an underperforming school.
This is the first time I'm hearing about RCS at all. I know SMS is ancient, but I had no idea it had been superceded like this. (Probably because I've never had a smartphone - they're a bit beyond my budget.)

I (very vaguely) know that SMS works on top of SS7. I just checked out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services, which was interesting but doesn't have that many technical details.

I'm very curious to understand how RCS works technically. I get the impression it can work over IP as well as carrier-integrated data transfer?
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