skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does himself no favours with his compulsion to rename things - "media services" becoming "media dis-services", "Goober" for "Uber" and so forth.

Many of his arguments are strong and worthy of discussion, even if his overall stance is not always so - but the way he expresses them can border into childishness sometimes. It's a pity; it gives his detractors (of whom I am not one, to be clear) an excuse to dismiss him.
How is that not also redistributing wealth?
Little nodules of food in your nose is just the worst.
I don't know of a single fortune 10 company that even has a hiring pipeline that could be gotten through in 4 days unless you know someone with some pull, and the entire industry can't be friends with that small group of people.

The Fortune 10 company having a fast hiring process was dumb luck.

The department I got hired in was originally a small startup that had been acquired by the larger company. The hiring manager was the founder of the original company. At the time, they hadn't been fully integrated with the company as a whole.

As far as the results not being typical, I've had a former coworker who was laid off that contacted me because they call me the "job whisperer". I put him in contact with three of my recruiters and he also had a job within three weeks working for a large well known company. I did help him with his resume.

As far as why I had so many leads, I attribute that to aggressively learning only what the market cares about, and at the time, my salary requirements were right in the median for what the market was paying for senior developers (and still $10K more than I was making).[1]

I've since changed jobs again, but the learn things->change jobs -> make more money process stops being as affective and gets slower once your salary requirements go up.

[1] I stayed at one job way too long and became an "Expert Beginner". My skillset and salary suffered the consequences. 10 years, 5 jobs, and a lot of studying later, I'm just now at the median salary for an "architect" and still have some gaps I want to fill in my skillset.

Networking like crazy" as you say. This obviously had benefits for you and is probably worth it for the vast majority of engineers. However, why is this amount of work necessary to find a job in an industry that constantly complains about a shortage of engineers? It seems like they're crying wolf when they say there's a shortage but the hiring process gets more insane every year

Out of all of the interviews I've done, I don't think any have been "insane". My technical interview at $largecompany consisted of a pair programming exercise correcting a program and making the unit tests pass. All of my other interviews have been the standard "explain your projects", talking and demonstrating architecture and best practices. I didn't have any programming work for my last two sets of interviews.

But with so many "developers" out thier who can't implement FizzBuzz, you have to be careful.
Bitcoin has more than doubled in price in the past year.

On an even longer timeline, we're all dead.
BT has built the UK's first quantum-secured high-speed fibre network
They didn’t say it was but you can see it on the way to Ellis Island.
If your openness threshold is as high as RMS's, the fact that there's no alternative is an ok tradeoff.
The comments here are eerily similar to the “before picture” in this xkcd:

https://www.xkcd.com/743/

Are we ready to look back on this thread with a bittersweet mixture of regret and yearning for our naïveté ?

I feel like we’ve been down this road before , and we don’t seem to have learned much about weighing contemporary practicality against long term security of freedom. And our duty in leading the development through our choices , rather than sitting back as ineffectual actors, choosing what works best for us, without regard for the effect of our choices on the proliferation of anti-freedom techniques.

Yes, Netflix works well now. That’s not his point. There is no fully superior alternative. That’s not his point. Our choices and boycotts can effect an alternative reality. I can’t speak for him, but, even if unwittingly, that’s what he’s achieving. It’s a sacrifice we all make for the greater good to get out of a local maximum. It’s about sending a signal.

Signed , a fervent Netflix user on an iPhone :/
Sales for b2b.
Marketing for b2c.

No matter how good your product is, if you don’t get traction, you’re dead in the water.
>I suspect that most of Apple's "proper computer" sales are laptops where they put a retina display anyway, and if you shell out $2k for a laptop, you can afford to spend $300 for a 4K external display.

My old windows computer is dying and I am thinking about getting a new mac. It seems the choice is a $2200 imac, or a $2700 mbp + a $1000 4k 21.5inch monitor.

LG is one of the very few companies that sells 4k 21.5inch and 5k 27inch monitors. Even 4k 24inch monitors, which I am guessing you are referring to, are quite rare. They are also not really approved by Apple. I mean, 4k 24inch will make everything look too big I assume, and 4k 27inch isn't retina quality.

So what exactly are we supposed to do? There are no external monitors to buy. Apple doesn't sell any, and the 3rd party solutions are few and far between. Maybe they want everyone to buy an imac and a mbp...
Oh, so he's decided that if the treat isn't intended to better society over future generations then it's not worthy of snacking on?
As someone who enjoyed GEB, I can see where Getty is coming from when I think of how movies with interesting ideas or topics can put me off with their theatrical acting and trite writing. After that it's just a matter of tolerance level and pickiness.
Its so embarassing we shall not talk about it?

Hey, at least our failure for once created jobs, without a steve. So its a good thing.
So what happens to the addict (drugs, gambling, whatever) that blows their UBI? Do we let them die in the streets with lack of medical care? Let their children starve?

How about the homeless in (any super expensive city that still won’t be able to afford housing there, yet for whatever reason won’t leave?

No, we’ll STILL need safety nets even with UBI.
I've opted to use the MBA exclusively at work for years now. I have not found anything that beats the size and weight of it while still giving that level of power. The form factor is one of my top considerations, so a Pro isn't really something I need or want because the extra horsepower doesn't really add much for my needs.

I can dock it at my desk and hook it up to two huge displays and a bigger keyboard, and then not be burdened when traveling.
Top comment on the bug tracker:

> Joshua Austill commented 24 Jun 2018 06:21

> @Gani Taskynbekuly OH MAN! I knew I was having this issue way worse at some times than others, but I'd never made the connection to sleep mode. Since reading your comment I've just been shutting my laptop down instead of closing the lid and letting it sleep and the problem has all but gone away. I searched High Sierra sleep issue and this is a well-known issue with bug reports. This means this isn't a JetBrains issue, it's a mac issue. It is annoying to turn off graphics switching and sleep mode and have crappy battery life, but hey, I'll pay that price for a usable laptop. I owe you a drink of your choice!

Seams like a macOS issue. I heard even rumors that's not the only issue with that OS. ;-)
There's some genuine gold in Netflix's library, if you go looking. An awful lot of dross too, to be sure, but there really is quality tucked away in amongst the mediocrity.

That's one of the reasons I find this particular essay exasperating - there is a measurable amount of serious work being distributed on Netflix, clearly made with care and passion, both in fiction and non-fiction. Yet Stallman's stance says to deplore those artists' work for their distributor's business practices. It's literally shooting the messenger.
A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes
I have a lot of respect for Stallman but I have to agree with you on this. It is very annoying and I think it creates barriers to the message he is trying to send.
I think FSF actually modifyed their license to allow Wikipedia relicense to CC (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/11/amend...)
I guess you misread my example. Frank is not worth $15+ a hour. Thus a business will never hire him for a part time job because it is a net negative for the business at that price point but both Frank and the business would be willing to agree to a wage that is less than a living wage.
In my city, there is a public library that offers a wide range of DVDs. People can watch them there or they can borrow them. It costs 15€ per year unless you're unemployed, retired or a student, in which case it's free. I've never used Netflix.
Twitter suspended more than 70M accounts in May and June
Netflix isn't giving back to society, because we can't archive their works legally or lend them out at a public library.

This makes no sense to me. I can't archive a live theatre performance or lend it out either, but I still consider many enjoyable evenings I've spent watching a show to be worth the price of admission. I couldn't keep the video cassettes I used to rent so I could watch again later, but I still considered the fee worth paying so I could enjoy a film I otherwise hadn't seen.

Netflix also provides a temporary benefit, but in practice it almost always has enough new films or shows that I enjoy watching but wouldn't necessarily want to rewatch to justify the monthly membership fee. Given that my alternative way to watch that material would typically be buying it in a fixed format such as DVD/Blu-ray at a higher price, even though having a permanent copy offered me little extra benefit, clearly Netflix is providing a useful service that does, at least for me, offer reasonable value for money.
Do you have a better idea?

This is an iterative process. Yes, GlobaLeaks could be used to spread fake leaks, but then it will force all democratic processes to be more transparent, in order to efficiently prove or disprove leak L or new N.

How fast we can prove a piece of fact is the next step, but to get there, you have to give people the tools to spread information (true and fake) as much as possible, imho

Edit : Also, this initiative is European. If you don't trust your own intelligence services, stop whining about it and come live in Europe?
just use the Netflix and TPB too
“People in general” don’t need UBI. The exceptions are why the safety nets exist.
Even if his points were valid, I feel that life is just too short to be a stallmanite.
I'd wager the friend in question wasn't thinking of privacy and freedom when she invited Stallman for Netflix and chill.
What if i steal somebodys finger, and keep it alive and it regrows into a whole new person?

Is involuntarily cloning evil?
> Even then the prices of various products will likely be affected, but the nature and extent of those effects are not obvious.

They're also likely to be beneficial, because the existing programs that would be replaced are the ones causing exactly the sort of price inflation we don't want by inflating the prices of necessities like food, housing and medicine.

When the government is paying for your healthcare, you get all the unnecessary tests. When the government is giving you the cash equivalent and whatever you don't spend on medicine you get to keep, you only get the necessary tests and then have money left over to take a vacation. So the price of healthcare goes down and the price of cruise tickets goes up, which seems like a pretty good trade off.
I don't know how you can justify making devices so expensive. It's almost like buying Apple calls out for social status. That brand will always remind of class warfare.
There's on MAJOR difference though - you'd have to deliberately buy a USB-C only Mac to enter the dongle world. This change will be pushed to everyone with a software update and we'll be constantly nagged to update with popups if we don't.
I take umbrage with the articles borderline clickbait points.

>Fatal accidents
nationally, garbage collection is often more dangerous than police work.
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/pf/jobs/2014/09/11/most-dangero...

>off-the-books workers
Yawn. Maybe this was sensational 40 years ago but now nearly every industry in america is staffed to some degree with undocumented workers. to think otherwise is fooling yourself into believing your italian restaurant experience wasnt fulfilled at great personal effort by a team of central or south american chefs.

>a union once run by a mobster
James Bernardone was sentenced to two years in prison for mob kickbacks relating to the construction industry, but his connection with the mafia is arguable and he is often seen as the government pounding any nail they can find to "send a message" to organized crime in New York. Many other industries require kickbacks. Lawyers, politicians, and certainly the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries all partake in and benefit from lucrative kickbacks that are simply never discussed because "business" is somehow more credible than "mafia" in the context of illicit gains.

Bernardone still receies a pension. Shocking in this day and age we've identified an industry that isnt complicit in grinding men to dust at the command of societies lust for biblical retribution after having served their prison sentence. most reformed criminals exiting the penal system are stripped of their voting right, barred from employment, and relegated to relapsing into the criminal system they were ostensibly rehabilitated from.
I agree. His points are usually very strong and he has led me to changing my opinions more than any other single individual.

But his way of communicating often leads to an initial impulse to dismiss what he is saying outright, much like I would dismiss a Microsoft criticism which referred to the company as M$ or an Apple criticism that kept calling it crApple.
The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration[pdf]
Wasn't typography Steve Jobs "big thing" he wanted to do well on the Mac?
Super pepper
For most people who don't like it, it makes the text look like you are watching one of those 3d movies without the glasses. It looks all blurry with red and blue fringing.
Well there's still always downloading pirated copies of everything. Like before Netflix. Not completely viable for everyone (moral objections, ease of use) and at least with Netflix some of the money goes to the makers (well, I hope).
Which? I only really see my little bubble of Netflix, of course, but a prominent part of that is Black Mirror and Big Bang Theory so it could go either way.
More I read about AV, more I get the idea that, these AVs need to think to some extent like a human driver. My notion is that, these AV research focus blindly on making individual cars think too much. Am curious what happens if the thinking and data-collection is distributed instead, like swarm intelligence, each AV nearby can broadcast what it sees and where it is(extends the vision of each car in a given location beyond it's own sensors); front car suddenly breaks/had an accident/roadblock/switched to human intervention => all following cars will negotiate if they should bypass(reporting car will be parking) or wait (reporting car will use another lane); a car is on a blind turn => oncoming traffic from both sides can negotiate if this car should attempt the turn because others are far enough/slow enough to let it turn safely or wait until they are gone(high speed so not enough time for turning car before that one approaches); a road is very confusing so all cars following should switch to/request human intervention with ample time ... etc and given how cellular phones switch nicely between different towers and areas, we can use similar tech to allow all nearby cars to communicate ... that is communicate, coordinate and decide. Now this have some issues like privacy, drivers with bad intention can feed bad data to cause mass confusion, legitimacy of data received etc ... which can probably be an interesting place to borrow some ideas from blockchain to verify legitimacy etc ... I think instead of focusing too much on ml, try to incorporate other techs which solve minor but similar issues is a good idea.

Disclaimer: I do not claim to have full/partial/enough understanding of any AV technology/blockchain/distributed computing/swarm intelligence etc... so my comment is more or less an opinion based on what I think may be interesting, which may or may not be already thought by and discarded for not-enough viability by the AV research.
I don't think that setting switches between grayscale and subpixel anti-aliasing.
Again, the universities aren't the ones originating the loans, it's the taxpayer. The universities would have already gotten their payment.

And unlike capital resources, the originator isn't able to come after the borrower and take their education away since it's inside the brain.
Positive: it’s lxc based.

Negative: it seems to focus a lot on the “I got hello world running in x minutes”. A dedicated keyword for “database”? What crazy logic is that??
There's only one book you need to read. The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James (the story of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian revolution)
Ronald Meesters book A natural introduction to probability is pretty good. i had it as an introductory probability theory text as an undergrad. its not too long and leaves you with a pretty good intuition of 'basic' probability theory. it does prove things but is not based on measure theory. id recommend searching for it as those big textbooks everyone is using are generally worse.
Once again, he is right and forward looking. What technology is becoming is must be clear to everyone nowadays. Having a democratic technology is a priority right now, and new IP laws as well.

I never even installed Netflix.
Wired headphones are becoming the mechanical watches of personal audio
> Trump has already been President for over a year and the country has by no stretch seen changes that I could "not imagine."

It typically doesn't happen overnight; rather, your rights erode over time, usually in the name of national security. That said, even in his short tenure, I believe Trump has done much to erode the norms of functioning democracy. Just a few examples: threatening political opponents with jail, threatening journalists, and at a very minimum having the appearance of basing foreign policy on how it affects his personal business empire.
The story of the boy who left the village to become a computer scientist
If my wife or I fail to communicate that we want emotional, rather than informational, support we just say “It’s not about the nail” and the other instantly understands.

The short video this idea is from: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
Many phone systems use some form of automatic ducking, meaning it tries to identify when someone is speaking, and raises their volume while lowering the volume of everyone else. The objective of this is to increase overall intelligibility but it's not perfect. A sudden change in volume on one line, e.g. caused by a car horn or keys typing, can trigger it to think someone else has started speaking
For sure! The fact is that IRC has existed parallel to the development of this entire industry so the desire to hang about in a chat room is real and should be served, but the modern incarnations of this are causing some people to stop cataloguing the small bits of necessary info about complex systems which i think is bad.
Fortunately, there are a quite few Windows-oriented machines with very decent specs now; some of them have an explicit Linux option, too.

21-22" 4k monitors are indeed pretty rare; 23-24" 4k are more widespread. I would gladly buy a 15-17" 3k / 4k display, like another laptop screen, but they seem to be absent from the market for some reason, despite the wealth of ready-made LCD panels for them.
That is nonsensical, nobody is putting a gun to your head to use all the ports. Having them available is definitely better than not. And if you prefer dongles, keep using them.
I (somewhat tongue in cheek) wonder how all those bureaucrats that’s we’ll get rid of will make a living. :)
I'd have them try to build a tool that allows finding the consensus answer to this question.
You're kidding, right?

I get my devs whatever they want for hardware, within reason. $500 or $1000 monitors? No questions asked. The price of hardware that will last years is nothing compared to the value of engineer happiness and productivity, especially when compares to how costly good engineers are in the USA and Canada.
The universities keep increasing cost of tuition way above the inflation rate in order to pay for increasing numbers of non-teaching administrators and fringe services like activities for students and sports facilities. The universities are the ones who are increasing tuition rates to better market themselves to future students.

The government, by way of elected leaders, promise increasing amounts of loans to college students under the guise of helping these students access increasingly costly schools of higher education, yet they are really just buying future votes (see, I made it easy for you to get someone else to give you a gigantic loan for a 4-year vacation! Now, vote for me again so I can try to forgive your debts, a la Bernie Sanders).
Morally, you're right... we should have both. Politically, however, it would be infeasible to sell UBI as anything but a means of cutting back the existing social welfare infrastructure in order to reduce taxes and the size of government. We can't have both so long as a significant number of voters want neither.
Some employers don't have the luxury of selecting the employees that work for them, many union shops in the construction business for instance.
Abstract:

We evaluate the explanatory power of the neutral theory of molecular evolution, 50 years after its introduction by Kimura. We argue that the neutral theory was supported by unreliable theoretical and empirical evidence from the beginning, and that in light of modern, genome-scale data, we can firmly reject its universality. The ubiquity of adaptive variation both within and between species means that a more comprehensive theory of molecular evolution must be sought.
> Subpixel antialiasing is obnoxious to implement.

I imagine 10 engineers that worked out antialiasing at Apple are handsomely compensated for their suffering.

I hook my mac to a cheap ultrawide. Will Apple give me 1k eur to get a new monitor with 4x pixel density so I can continue using my computer that I got from them only a few months ago or will my mac become obsolete? This is unworkable.
The gp’s exposition is explicit but makes no sense to me, in a scenegraph architecture all that would be very straightforward for example.
Disclaimer: I'm affiliated with a semi competing project to panama called javacpp: https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp

I can say for a fact that panama is not seriously targeting this space.
We implement a ton of that native code today that works with c++ and actual android today.
We also handle gpus.
Project panama is only targeting c, and even then will only do it a cross platform non committal fashion. They aren't doing it the way they should be in order to properly target native vectorized code.

We know this from experience, because this is all we do:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j
https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp-presets

We tried seeing if we could get some of this work in to the JDK, but their goals fundamentally compete with what it takes to get vector math to be fast. It's also not nearly as ambitious as it needs to be to handle real world tensor workloads.
The USB-C only Mac Book was released 3 years ago.

PC’s have been slowly adopting it. Give it a couple of more years.
>Trump has already been President for over a year and the country has by no stretch seen changes that I could "not imagine."

Well... I for one couldn't imagine a primary channel for communicating American policy being a personal Twitter account.