skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pet topic of mine. Here are some interesting breadcrumbs, although a sister post by dv_dt above was a far better summary than I could give, there are some things I think are illuminating specifically. While not specifically from the presidents you mention, I ascribe to a theory that there were broad cultural and economic shifts that caused the results you see.

- The Powell Memo in 1971 [0]

- Rise of corporate raiding ~1980 [1]

- CPI inflection in 1970s [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Mem...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_raid

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index#/media/Fi...
It's a bit similar to the test-optional trend in undergraduate admissions. The acceptance count (numerator) generally remains constant, while the application count (denominator) increases as more students see the appeal of omitted test scores. So, the acceptance rate decreases, which can craft a façade of prestige, among other things. Additionally, that increased applicant pool may include some higher-achieving students, likely applying for safety purposes, which can increase prestige if they accept; furthermore, their acceptance pushes otherwise-capable students to a lower priority in the pool.

All in all, in order to effectively analyze these occurrences (particularly in admissions), one must ask: how will the institution benefit? They wouldn't pass these changes otherwise.
At least 107 measles cases confirmed across 21 states
Arm CPU Roadmap Reveals Deimos and Hercules Assaults on Intel Notebook Chips
I'd rather be part of the Chinese botnet than the American one.
Your generic EpiPen was actually a Mylan EpiPen with a different sticker and a slight discount. (but somehow cost 2-3 times what an EpiPen cost 5 or 10 years ago). This was manufactured by Teva and will provide actual competition to Mylan.
Historically speaking, the more freedom, the more equality and the better off everyone is.

- Countries which add restrictions the the economy see slower wealth growth and more inequality

- Countries which free up their economy see acceleration in growth and more equality

- Countries with free economies outperform neighboring, similar countries which are more restrictive

- Industries which are more free are more innovative, and become cheaper, faster than heavily regulated industries
I don't think the call and SMS log is what needs to be hidden, as those are so easily accessible that it would be foolish to use them for anything very sensitive. It would be to protect more sensitive things such as email accounts, encrypted messaging, photos, documents, etc.
Oops! You are correct, though it looks like the SG-1000 was never released outside of JP. Still, not pre-crash.
They sent you home because they didn't want to be responsible for your health/safety.
how do you change the header?
I think the general theme is going to be ever-present in any Christian religious teachings, but in your experience, do you feel like "heavy emphasis" was put on that particular idea, and especially as a motivating factor for controlling behavior or allegiance....as a tool to manipulate?

And if it isn't confidential, the people you're familiar with, is that restricted to a fairly tight geographical region, or quite spread out? I'm wondering if perhaps it is the case that there are somewhat distinct regional flavors of religious teaching. If this was the case, with a generally more mobile populace, families often tending to live further apart, one would expect this to decrease over time, especially with young people who've moved away from family, although any number of things could cause a change in younger generations.
One thing Friedman was incorrect about was monetary policy. Most other things, he was correct about.
Study: Too Big to Fail Banks' Regulatory Alchemy
List of U.S. states and territories by fertility rate
> Democracies elect idiots "who wreck it all" all the time.

> Only a democracy will promote the interests of everybody.

Doesn't the first statement contradict the second?
They're not dumb. You installed the thing you're claiming gives you plausible deniability -- it's a fair inference that you wanted just that so that you could hide something, ergo the court will just demand that password.

Which means you shouldn't install any such software unless you're going to have those hidden partitions and are willing to let LE have access.
The less money they spend on this kind of thing, the more they have to funnel to their second cousin's shell corporation. With no oversight, performance degrades.
How AI is decommoditizing the chip industry
The whole non-dischargeable loans thing was to make it possible at all for private lenders to make the loans. If you take that away, the underwriting will not work--the risk is too high, you would have 35% interest rates like on a credit card. Non starter.
But is it "for humans?"
Wait, didn't you two just say the same thing? He said there are no GMO oats available. You said companies offer non-GMO oats, which are not GMO oats.
If financial risk really encouraged effort and perseverance, we would expect university dropout rates in countries like France or Germany to be far higher than in the US or UK. Is that actually the case?
Free space management needs imply that at some point you must provably have all N passwords or that you're wasting some amount of space just to avoid that, but since that's dumb the fair inference is that you're not doing that, and that you have N passwords to reveal.
It's evident citizens are not going to win the fight for privacy by trying to change policy. Voting has become nearly meaningless in the modern age when it comes to changing politics. Influencing businesses to do what's right is becoming more challenging too as this order shows they can just be forced to hand over data by authorities.

I don't want the "bad guys" getting away with their activities either, but I don't want some jackass in a volatile country to obtain my confidential data because the authorities are too incompetent to store it securely on their servers. It's just begging for identity theft and black-mail. Time and time again we've been shown that even the most sensitive data can't be secured properly (e.g. Equifax, Google, Yahoo, Anthem, NSA/CIA hacks and leaks).

I also don't want some corrupt cop having a bad day make up an absurdly false reason to go through my private life. It's bad enough with people getting drugs planted by corrupt cops; authorities just can't be trusted and there is no proper oversight to make sure they're acting ethically.

The only way to fight this is by developing tools to counteract these measures in a reasonably intelligent manner. Hidden multi-layer partitions, hidden "remote" hosts, encrypted decoys that show faux private content so it appears you're cooperating when real content is hidden, etc.
If you can't make a web site work with Safari then you have no business calling yourself a web developer. Not even joking.
Not-so-tounge-in-cheek corollary: software with a sufficiently rich and desirable attack surface will evolve to become indistinguishable from an OS.
Peter Thiel refused to hire someone who liked to play "hoops":

"PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job. "

http://blakemasters.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-...

You seem to assume everyone agrees that making hiring decisions on factors with zero relevance to doing the work doesn't make sense. Sadly that's not the case.
Yeah that's obvious and telling me what I already know and pointed out. I thought there was some other cryptographic issue.
There’s actually no reason the web couldn’t have been made of hyper-PostScript. Imagine how slick that would be.
New Zealand to VCs buying up its land: No more
Index Free Adjacency or Hybrid Indexes for Graph Databases (2017)
Let's ballpark things.

Assuming 1 teacher making 100k teaching 20 students * 5 classes * 3 credit hour classes a semester ~= 333$ / credit hour. 128 credit hour degree ~= 43k over 4 years. And that's assuming relatively small average class size and ignoring adjuncts etc.

Yet, many schools are charging 4-10 times that much. The question becomes what are the 3+ other people doing if not teaching and can you get rid of that?

PS: And sure some professors make well over 100k and facilities are not free, but again many people even at expensive schools are pulling in less than that.
The Tragedy of Systemd
Recycle-GAN: Unsupervised Video Retargeting
I have to say, this article's thesis is not "Stop Hiring for Culture Fit" and more "These are good hiring practices have have worked for me." The title seems to be "How To Hire" with a broad focus.

"Culture fit" is mentioned literally once. I know that's the HBR pagename for it, but it's a terrible title.
State capitals are usually established when the state is established (they can occasionally be moved afterwards, but in most cases aren't after the first decade or so of statehood). At that time, there is no economic center to most states, because economic development has not yet begun.

Sacramento, for example, has been the capital of CA since 1854. At the time, the population of Sacramento was 10,000, San Francisco was 34,000, Los Angeles didn't exist yet, and most economic activity centered around gold mining, which usually happened near the Sacramento hinterlands.

Similarly Nevada's capital has been Carson City since 1864. In 1864 the primary industry in Nevada was silver mining of the Comstock Lode, which is right next to Carson City. Las Vegas didn't exist until 1905.

Some state capitals also have rather colorful histories, as well. The capital of Louisiana was moved from New Orleans (the economic center) to Baton Rouge because "New Orleans was too sinful". The capital of Idaho moved from Lewistown (the previous economic center, driven by a gold rush) to Boise (the new economic center, driven by mineral mining) in violation of a court order, and featured the governor fleeing the state for Portland and the state treasury being stolen from his steamboat cabin.

There's a catch-22 for settlement patterns where large-scale settlement and economic development of many states didn't happen until after they gained statehood, at which point the capital is already decided.
This is interesting less for the science and more for the conflicts between different camps of "rationalists" about what "science" means. Especially given that the "rockstar physicist shows up with a model, gets angry when everyone doesn't accept their conclusions" dynamic is hardly unique to paleontology.
> They wouldn't have a choice of course, unless they are one of the few capable of obtaining a couple masters degrees in STEM.

That's already quite difficult given high specialization in IT. Even if you put hardware aside and take only software engineering, the difference between, say, kernel coding and the so-called "front-end development" is enormous. It literally takes years to master an ecosystem, and the complexity increases steadily just as we speak.
>"School officials worry that rising tuition and soaring loan balances are pushing new doctors into high-paying fields and contributing to a shortage of researchers and primary care physicians."

It's worth noting that NYU tuition for regular undergrad is $50K before room and board and $68K with room and board [1].

The cynic in me has to wonder if they share the same concern for the rest of the legion of debtors they are churning out every year.

I'm not doubting the importance of research and primary care physicians in our society. But six figure debt loads for university are commonplace in the US. And are likely causing skew in career choices in non-medial fields as well.

I also have to think that there's something in this arrangement for NYU and that there are motives outside of just societal altruism here. I just don't know what those are. Research money? 501(c)(3) maintenance? Something else?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/01091...
In my experience ""hiring people you'd want to have a beer with" is exactly what many people on the business side mean by "cultural fit."

I think your definition is true for technical hires for tech firms. For everyone else, the "beer" definition is operative.
Agreed. I haven't quantified it but I would ballpark I come across 25+ things per year that directly save me significant hours of work, lead me to much better solutions to a problem, provide a lead that would help me with investing/employment/helping a friend/etc. That in addition to the intellectual stimulation and enjoyment from the other articles is why I don't feel bad about spending ~30 minutes a day here everyday. Warren Buffett supposedly has read the WSJ for decades every morning. I think to many of us here this is our WSJ.

Finally, for years I've used HN as the fastest way to check my internet connection. :)
Your Customer Isn't Always Right: Secrets to Good Product Management
It might also have been a 7/10. When I had surgery on my back, right above my buttocks, they dug a hole deep right onto my bone and then it had to heal on its own, took 4 months to close. The first two days were a solid 9.5/10.
I think you have been a little unfair the the argument cited. The author is not arguing for any of the modern annoyances you list. They are arguing for boredom, tedium, and for serendipity. Why are they arguing for some measure of these things? Let me quote your argumnet again:

>If I didn't have house chores or a commute, then I could spend a lot more time learning new pieces of Mathematics. Or work through the rest of the half-finished anatomy textbook on my bookshelf. Or finally get around to building a digital simulation of a human heart. Or start a garden. Or just hang out with a coffee at the hackerspace or coffee shop or church basement.

> There are a lot of opportunities for serendipity, many ways to build grit, and infinite opportunities to socialize.

Indeed, you would technically have more time to do these things. But you would not necessarily know you want to do them, nor find the time to sit and ponder. Not if every moment has been optimised to speed you through your day and onto the next productive task.

Perhaps, you argue, we would realise such moments are important and build them into the system, leaving patches of "hard reality". But we have already begun the process, and the activities you cite are so far faring badly. Putnam and Murray (Bowling Alone/Coming Apart) have both shown how the last half century has eroded actual participation in the activities we have been freed to do more of. They also show that it is hurting us, particularly anyone who is not bright or rich.

Ultimately, we need both the time to build grit, socialise and be serendipitous, as well as the moments of frustration and boredom which allow our minds to wander to such possibilities.
As someone else commented, culture fit often seems to end up being a dog whistle.

The types of things you mention seem perfectly legitimate. For example, I've advised someone who I knew from a previous employer who I knew needed a lot of structure and direction to not apply to a company that I knew was considerably more... chaotic.

If you tell me your company culture is an open office and you do lots of get-togethers in the evening and focus on working together on everything rather than going off and working on problems individually for a while, I'll probably pass.
ID4me: A public, open, federated digital identity service
Ok GTK3 is just awfull but no one is taking it seriously and actually building things with it right?
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Login-mit-ID4me-Deze...
That's backwards. College is expensive because demand is extremely high. Subsidies increase that demand by making college affordable for most, but the suggestion that the subsidies themselves are the problem is plain wrong. We wanted an educated workforce, we've got one. We can say we don't want one, but to blame our efforts to educate people as the problem with education is not productive. We either educate people or we don't. We increased demand on purpose (and we should have!). Of course prices are going to go up! Normally supply would expand to keep up, but something is rotten in education. Teachers get paid a pittance, there were several high profile accreditation frauds, and the natural inclination towards prestige as worth more than the actual diploma combine to seriously limit our ability to expand and mitigate prices.
I consider it professional development too. Something I like about HN is that the comments are typically fact based or coming from a constructive place. Very little have I received the Reddit or Twitter discussion responses of expletives followed by insults (though I’ve probably called one or two people some bad things).

This place has gotten me interested in so much more than the tech ecosystem I live in.
You would think you could become good at eng. mgmt., but reality says otherwise.

Most of the VP Eng's I've met are washed-up ex-engineers with no mgmt. ability either. They're just cogs in a machine or the apex of an org chart.

And why do we expect them to be good at something they never studied? Like doctors, they can bury their mistakes (ie. fire malcontents.)
Sure, we've updated the link from https://boingboing.net/2018/08/16/who-left-open-the-cookie-j....
They are private institutions, you can try to persuade them of that at any point.
But now you're talking about detecting a nail. Which if you decided to ban (somehow?), you'd still be tasked with detecting a tiny object. Most metal detectors are tuned not to even care about normal size belt buckles as far as I know.
I did a search for "Fiona Wilson Australia fixated" and got back a few articles, not familiar enough with AU news to determine what is tabloids and what is not. Please post if anyone finds something reputable.
I was reasonably sure it didn't actually.
A "Tiffin" in India is a meal in a box. There is this website https://tiffinplanet.co.uk/ that provides a tiffin service. That is serves Indian food to you for lunch/dinner. You can find similar services on Gumtree. I briefly subscribed to a Tiffin service that would advertise the food a day before and you could decide whether you were interested or not.
Don’t expect Twitter (or others) to change. It works. *For them*
It would require discipline, but you could only read HN in incognito/private mode. Delete your history for a fresh start. I do this on my phone - it's not as helpful as I thought it would be.
> For example: let students discharge student loans via bankruptcy.

Ataturk's reply to this is dead below but I must agree with the (spirit of the) comment. While I support letting students discharge loans via bankruptcy, I VEHEMENTLY oppose making this applicable to loans already signed. This is absolutely ridiculous and anyone who supports this kind of position should be barred from public office on grounds of insanity.

EDIT: I also think income and means testing ought for any government program or service ought to be illegal. You cannot say "you must make below $n to be eligible for this government program". I know the economists in the audience will bellow and bicker and say that we have limited resources that we must allocate "logically" but guess what macroeconomics is nonsense anyway because out here in the real world people don't behave logically. We need to make it against the law to use income, means, or property testing for any government program or service. Can't afford to offer it to the entire population regardless of income? Either increase taxes or rollback the program. Can't have it both ways.
Differential privacy in (a bit) more detail
The "which procedure code standard do they use" bit is a red herring. The billing arms race is much more relevant.

Suppose that this year, Insurer A pays $100 to Doctor B for performing Procedure 12345. Next year, they may only pay $95, and a couple years after that they may only pay $80. The doctor's costs are not going down in that time; if anything, the overhead of being in business (rent, wages for staff, etc.) will increase, at least at the nominal 2% rate of inflation.

So the doctor has higher costs year over year but is getting paid less by the insurer for rendering the same service. What does the doctor do? Turn to the codes!

The doctor finds a creative interpretation of the procedure which allows billing it as two codes, let's say 23456 and 34567. Each of those pays out $50 from the insurer. So the doctor switches to billing that way. Now the doctor gets the same payment as before for the same service as before. Of course, the insurer will start ratcheting down payments for those codes pretty soon, now it's an arms race: how creatively can the doctor find alternative ways to describe the procedure, in order to get paid the same as before, and how quickly can the insurer catch on and reduce its payments?

Except the doctor doesn't have time to do this, so the doctor hires billing-code specialists to come up with the creative ways to describe the procedures. And the insurer expands its department of billing-code specialists to figure out what the doctors are coming up with, and dispute or reduce payments.

And the cycle goes on and on. My first job out of college was at a company that processed health claims, and (manually) handling those claims was part of what I did there. And for the past few years I've been in health care again, on the software side (some of it at an insurer, some of it at a provider). I've gotten to watch this happen, and wondered what the reduction in cost would be if they cut, say, 90% of the billing specialists out of the system entirely and just went back to prior levels of payment.
You're acting as if his policy suggestions were enacted across the board. In reality, we've had growing regulatory burden and other government distortion in the economy. This includes healthcare, tariffs, copyright/patents, monetary policy, endless war, the drug war, immigration restrictions, complicated tax policy, agricultural subsidies, welfare traps, and much more.
It’s safe to return to some parts of Fukushima, study suggests
The Latin here doesn't make any sense. The post translates it as "trolls beware", but caveat is singular (the plural is "caveant") and troglodytarum is genitive plural (the corresponding nominative plural should be "troglodytae").

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troglodytes
I think this will interest HN as a follow-up to two recent posts and discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17737148

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17743293
There are plenty of secure messaging services out there. Making one that works for everyone is not a trivial problem.

Suppose you own a coffee shop and offer free wifi, should you be held responsible if someone logs into a bank without SSL and gets their credentials sniffed?

Should you be responsible for designing a wifi protocol that uniquely encrypts the traffic of each user, without shared keys, to prevent sniffing?
One of the better hiring advice I got while working at a consulting company was to consider hiring a person for a skill or personality trait that does not yet exist within the company. If in doubt whether to hire or not, the existence of such skill/trait would move the decision towards hiring.

This way the overall capabilities and knowledge power of the organisation would increase over time - either by hiring top talent or by hiring candidates for their uniqueness.
>Is that how "most people" define "culture fit" in your experience?

The issue is many companies that rely on "culture fit" don't objectively define what it is. So it often becomes a dumping ground for whatever dumb biases and subjective criteria folks involved in hiring might have.

If your company actually has a hard definition of your internal culture and uses that in comparable fashion across candidates, I don't think that's what the author means.