skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point in my career think the problem is always that somewhere in the chain of command is someone who sets arbitrary deadlines and then keeps changing the spec.

As an engineer I hated this- we would just get more and more work piled on us, arbitrary and counter productive of dienright stupid changes. Product managers who didn’t understand the user and would just throw random ideas in there without vetting.

When I got up to being CTO, I discovered my CEO didn’t give a flip about any kind of reality, just demanded more, kept making changes and wasn’t interested in hearing about how work related to schedule. He literally didn’t care that he made it impossible to deliver the product, and just blamed development (and eventually me.). My deal was structured such that I was ok being the fall guy but the abuse those engineers suffered was pointless.

This is not the only time I’ve seen this. In 20+ years I’ve seen it at companies like Microsoft and Amazon (from Bezos directly- the most incompetent CEO ever.) I’ve seen it at many startups too.

It seems non-technical “leaders” don’t give a shit about the fact software takes time. They think it should be trivial to change anything anytime.

Basically I’ve stopped working for other people because of this.

It’s not that software is hard to manage- it’s that MBA types have sero respect for the engineering department and just want to abuse engineers.

If you have a good situation it’s because somebody between you and the MBA asshole is protecting you. Or your CEO is an engineer.

My rule is, no more working for CEOs who aren’t real engineers (had done lie about that too. No your HTML page in high school without do much as a lick of JavaScript does not make you “technical.”)
Why don't you use an ad-blocker?
Software Engineer- Billing
I have.

I own very little Apple hardware and only because I am a software dev.

I certainly buy many things from China because it is hard to never get anything from China, but often you do have a choice.

I was at Target, for instance, and I bought a Samsung branded microwave oven from Malaysia which has a 44/100 score from Freedom House as opposed to China which has a 14/100 score.

I have also gotten into fixing old toasters and things because I've found that recent models from China are based on inferior technology. When toasters started coming from China they would burn up -- multiple times my mother and law would buy them from Wal*Mart and thought she got a deal but it lastest less than six months.

A few years later, Chinese toasters traded toasting speed for safety, then they went from two slots to four slots to make up for lost time. It doesn't help though if you are watching your carbs and want just one or two slices.

Old toasters fail in a predictable way and can be repaired easily. It might be true about new toasters but why bother.
People are illogical. If they are in any large city in the world, they are likely being watched by at least 10 cameras over the course of the day, and nobody seems concerned. But, when you have someone holding the camera, all of a sudden they lose their minds. Which one is likely to be a bigger threat to you? A city-wide network of always-on cameras monitored by who knows how many people, or a single rando pointing a single camera at you?
Pretty sure it's the license, specifically:

(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using macOS Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

The grant set forth in Section 2B(iii) above does not permit you to use the virtualized copies or instances of the Apple Software in connection with service bureau, time-sharing, terminal sharing or other similar types of services.
From juggling to biomechanics
the "all" in the title refers to just the US according to the article
Twitter suspends Alex Jones for 1 week
Really great - I signed up.

One useful feature might be for the index to show one-sentence blurbs about each paper (in addition to the title of the paper itself). Unless I'm reading papers very specific to my subfield, I need some context to know what I'm looking at & why it's important. Otherwise I fear that only articles with the most accessible titles (or disciplines whose titles tend to be most accessible) will be clicked, read & upvoted.

I would hope that the nature of the type of people who read scientific papers is to avoid sensationalizing too much (like popular science journalism does).
I disagree. I think most people distinguish between "end developer" code and libraries. I always find projects like this interesting and useful as they can be decent starting points to getting to know something.
You don’t really need to look very far, see:

https://www.wsj.com/news/types/china-news

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/destination/china

https://www.cnn.com/china

https://www.economist.com/sections/china

Look at any article that is negative and not about xinjiang. Eg China lending crisis doesn’t mention Uighurs at all. I personally recommend the Economist’s recent article in Tianjin’s current building bust. I mean, I saw derelict skyscraper husks when I first visited tianjin in 1999, that’s still a think in 2018???
The founder of the Tachyons css framework has some very similar ideas on his blog. Well worth the dive - http://mrmrs.cc/writing/
Edit: ...2GW in 2015 and is about 20GW in 2018...

Typo, and HN doesn't allow me to update it now. Anyway, my point was that in the past 4 years we achieved 20GW and we expect to achieve 80GW in the next 4 years.
Already do so using LEAPS to balance out my tech and commodity investments (and anything else I feel is going to take a nose dive when the economy slows down). Feel free to take the other side of the trade in the marketplace.
I'm not convinced looking at overall percentage owernership is the right and accurate way to determine if working class Americans have skin in the game.

Of course the factory workers $30,000 in the market is going to be miniscule compared to the billionaire, but doesn't means it's not critical to the factory worker.
There are also a ton of employers here in Philadelphia who are outside the traditional tech scene, but need tech skills and are possibly able to facilitate visas. The OP jumps from entry-level job to engineering degree which is possibly an assumption that they'll be working in a pure tech company. There are more opportunities if you cast the net wider.

You ideally want to avoid the "body shops", of which there are plenty, but I found visa and entry to the US was more important than how perfect the role was. If you can demonstrate the skills people need I've found people here don't care so much about where you are coming from.
An Entirely New Type of Antidepressant Targets Postpartum Depression
Rb: 10 lines of Ruby replaces most command line tools you use to process text
This may well be true -- I clicked with enthusiasm because this would interest me a lot -- but if you follow the link you'll see that the married authors of the "study" have a history of making nonsense claims (she has two separate nonsense Wifi studies, which you'll see a bunch if you Google). The study itself was published in a pay-to-publish journal with no peer review.

I read the paper. The design, as listed in the paper, seems fine. The main rival hypothesis for me would be that the ants do see the mirror, don't think it's themselves or pass the mirror test, and scratch because they're bothered by the marking on their face which they can feel. But the authors do claim to test this and find that ants not exposed to mirrors don't scratch their faces. So to be clear the threat I'm proposing to the study's validity is fraud on the part of the authors, not a failed execution.
I don't get it, by my reading that amendment supports the argument.
"On the assumption that the primary goal of employers is to maximise profits in the interests of shareholders, codetermination can reorient the company's goals in the interests of workers. A better balance may be struck so that the company interests are not so one sided. For unions, codetermination is part of democratising the economy. It is also a way for workers to better the terms and conditions of their contracts in an orderly and regulated way." [1]

This is a 100% match to the remarks made in the article.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany#Int...
Everybody is saying start cooking again and start exercising and what not. Those things are important, clearly you know they are but these people don't understand how difficult it can be to do that, its actually pretty insensitive having been there myself. But if you are actually capable of doing those things then definitely do them.

One thing that is non-negotiable though is sleep, keep it consistent and try really hard to let yourself wake without an alarm.

What worked for me was detaching from work for 4 weeks or so and just be a human being whose self worth isn't tied to work. I would make sure I get out of the house, even if that meant browsing reddit at a coffee shop, or just walking around, really bad idea to take time off and spend it all in the house.

After that, getting a therapist was a tremendous benefit. Getting a professional outsider, who can not ruin your life (by sharing the gory details of whats going through your head with others) feels really good. Sometimes you can be locked in a fog where you just spiral down and can't see why. Having someone there who can look at it objectively, without that fog, and can deliver some insights while both of you try to figure out what is wrong.

A lot of times in mid 20s mental health issues will reveal themselves. I think the best way to go about that is see a therapist who actually believes in medicine being helpful (some therapists will advise their patients to avoid drugs but if thats the only thing beyond extreme will power that will fix the issue, do it). They will get to know you over a long period of time and eventually may suggest you see a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists usually don't spend that much time finding a diagnosis in my experience, its just a description of feeling, he trusts what you are feeling and slowly try a medication according to the symptoms.

Finding a therapist is probably the best way I was able to get out of my funk. Without her guidance I would've just been wallowing until I finally take drastic measures.
Punchy Cards say how you really feel
> DTHREADS achieves cross-thread memory isolation by replacing threads with processes. In a multithreaded program running with pthreads, threads share all memory except for the stack. Changes to memory immediately become visible to all other threads. Threads share the same file descriptors, sockets, device handles, and windows. By contrast, because DTHREADS runs threads in separate processes, it must manage these shared resources explicitly.

They seem to be using a processes' copy-on-write memory to keep the dthreads isolated until commit points. At commit points they deterministically merge the pages back.

Algorithmic errors are still possible due to data races, but they present themselves more like logic errors because they're deterministic. They'll fail the same everytime.

Interesting.
I don't think it's too cynical given this move at this point. They have willingly entered into a market where corporations are sponsored for their loyalty to the state, which has done horrendous humanitarian crimes, without which they could have succeeded economically just as well. Seems to me any semblance of a soul has been lost here in favor of pure VC profits.
I would change it slightly, by saying that American corporations of any appreciable size exist because we grant them charters and as a result people are willing to invest in them. Without the charter (including entitlements such as limitation of liability), investment would shrink so drastically that we'd be back to mostly mom-and-pop businesses.
How You Can Find Socialism in a Capitalist World
It's a simple sans serif font, what's so bad about it?
>In this case the author matters a bit. It's Elizabeth Warren, the congress woman who is putting forth a bill to "reign in" wall street.

The consumer advocate who used to be really productive when she didn't spend her time catering to the farther left parts of the democrat's base and playing identity politics introduces a bill that requires companies be X% controlled by the workers. Color me surprised.

I really liked her better when her primary focus was enacting laws (or at least trying) that made it harder for consumers to get screwed by predatory business practices and gave them more recourse when they did. Stuff likes this makes me not want to vote for her though. This sounds like it was purposefully half-baked to appeal to the younger socialist portion of the democratic base even though it has no hope of passing.

I like the idea of giving employees a better share of profits but I think trying to do that by putting a bunch of them on the board is heavy handed (especially when you start talking large shares like 40%) and likely to have a bunch of bad side effects.

Edit: why is this an unacceptable opinion?
84% of all stocks are owned by the 10% richest in America. It really does only benefit the already rich. It's ignorant to think people with 401k's or retirement plans are gaining any real money.

It's rigged for the rich, I promise.

http://time.com/money/5054009/stock-ownership-10-percent-ric...
I had not seen this paper, so thanks for sharing. The primary conclusion is that more males are victims of sexual crimes and more females are abusers than is generally thought. I'm sure this is the case, but this shouldn't be mistaken for women being equal abusers.

First, the referenced source data (NCVS and NSVRC [1]) explicitly point out that 9% of victims of all rape and sexual assault are male. This is not insignificant, but it still means that > 90% of all sexual crime victims are female. 99% of female victims have male abusers [2]. Another recent study out of Germany found that women were 10-20x more likely to be victims across all age groups, and men were 50-100x more likely to be the abusers [3].

I think these new looks at the data do highlight a serious lack of knowledge about male victimization and female abuse, which will help us have a better picture of what's really going on. Unfortunately, the study referenced by Vice makes many politically-motivated statements about gender stereotypes, and then attempts to fit the data to that narrative. It suggests that we should adjust our national discussion about these issues from a more gender-neutral approach, which is a very palatable idea.

Modern ideas about sexual abuse that are rooted in evolutionary psychology actually attempt to discuss ultimate causes about why this kind of behavior occurs, using well-understood ideas about the evolution of human behavior and countless examples from other animals. It should come as no surprise that men and women differ significantly in their sexual behavior, both intuitively and factually. This is a controversial idea in the social sciences (which are more widely discussed in the media), but not in biology.

[1] https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc... .

[2] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X08322632 .

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4791564/ .
His point is that there is basically no country on the planet that does not have some history of conquest attached to it.

Railing against it just because it's recent is just kind of arguing to a particular status quo. What makes the Chinese takeover of Taiwan any more or less legitimate than the PRC takeover of the mainland?
The costs of healthcare and housing are far and away the largest dampers on the economy and the cause of inequality.

Shareholder accountability might be something worth looking at but it also seems like a distraction for politicians who are incapable of tackling the real issues.

Dear leftist politicians: please don't attack successful companies and sectors and stop stoking the populist fervor of your hippy base and proto-socialist newcomers and tackle the real issues of healthcare and housing costs which have proven market based solutions.
Don't you have Firefox?
You're absolutely right! Europe has conference facilities!

Of course, most places in Europe also have much stricter laws on guns. Many places aren't quite into the whole "free speech" thing in the way Americans are. These things are pretty important to a large number of attendees.

DEFCON is probably best regarded as a regional North American hacker con that reflects the culture and history of North American hackers. You cannot transplant DEFCON and preserve its cultural history. This is an issue of some concern, as it's the people and culture that matter the most at DEFCON rather than the conference that someone who has never attended might reasonably assume. After all, it's just a conference, right?

Continental Europe already has CCC. DEFCON's roots and history tie is pretty firmly to Vegas.
Exactly what I came here for. Thanks. :)
I use Travis CI for the OS X build of my open source project. I build for OS X 10.7 but it looks like you get a good set of other stuff, iOS included: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/osx/#xcode-version

I think you may have to pay them to use it for closed source stuff. Not sure about setting it up to run on-site or whatever.

Setup was sort-of quite easy, because I just ignored their CI system, however it works, and made the build run the same Python script I already used on my own Mac to make .dmgs - but it was still a bit painful in places, as their deployment options had some limitations, and the documentation wasn't always clear. But the end result does what I'd hoped for: master gets built, packaged, and uploaded to web site; build branch gets built, packaged, and pushed as a GitHub release.

(For Windows I use AppVeyor. Mostly similar experience, but one advantage: they'll host your build artefacts for you, though presumably up to some limit. Good for the non-release day-to-day builds, as I like to have a decent set of these but don't really care about keeping them indefinitely.)
Fifth paragraph (and nodesocket said "rich to stay rich", not just ultra-rich and ceos):

Because the wealthiest 10% of U.S. households own 84% of American-held shares, the obsession with maximizing shareholder returns effectively means America’s biggest companies have dedicated themselves to making the rich even richer.
While I can't find it now, there have been articles detailing how shareholder value is down now compared to periods prior to the rise in executive pay. Naming (marketing) and focus are really two different things.

Are many companies accountable to shareholders? The large ones anyway. How many shareholders are engaged?

The money distribution has been very much to executives. From Fortune[1]:

> According to a new report on CEO pay from the Economic Policy Institute,
> chief executives at those 350 companies made $15.6 million on average in
> 2016—271 times what the typical worker earns. Though CEO compensation has
> fallen slightly in the past few years, it has increased by more than 930%
> since 1978.

Theory is different from practice.

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/07/20/ceo-pay-ratio-2016/
Two researchers at DEF CON this past weekend showed that the situation is better but people are still using old tech for their crypto. So, better mathematically, but not practically.

Slides are here off the DEF CON media server:
https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20pre...
I live in a decent-sized UK city, but I think I'd struggle to find any roles where the company has.

1. Has interesting/non-soul-destroying work.

2. Has a NYC office that shares a development department

3. Has an open culture of relocating

It sounds like a huge risk to move to a job you probably wouldn't choose otherwise, on the potential possibility that you might be able to move you and your family abroad. Given your company would need to match all three prerequisites above, you'd also probably have slim pickings unless you already live in a major city.
I'd like +inflation in the long term - the rub is that quarter to quarter horizons and returns at all costs lead to companies producing right up until they fall into the sea. The hedge funds and activist investors that drive them into this (super large investors) jump ship in advance, everyone who's not in the know is left to go down with it.
As good a place as any to remind people German workers have 30 vacation days on average (in addition to 10 public holidays).

Somehow the work gets done!
Congratulations, you have fooled yourself. You don’t have to put a lot of effort into convincing me that you didn’t because it doesn’t matter, I don’t care.
I'd like to meet the agent trying to bring his Furby to work.
A lot of table alterations can be done without rebuilding the table, though perhaps a table scan might be needed to validate constraints (though this should optionally be a separate statement). To do this safely requires the RDBMS to support the functionality.
Obviously, excluding the lower or working class would increase the percentage, but that would further damage your claim that, "Working class Americans have lots of skin in the game." Whether or not the stock market and balanced portfolios are good wealth creation tools (I happen to believe they are too), most Americans do not take advantage of them, and therefore have no skin in the game.
"Secure" work computer. Security settings. Windows. We have a very short list of available software. I cannot even clear my browser history without first emailing IT.
> I know multiple people that have changed employers every couple years throughout their thirties. Each time it was a better deal.

I actually myself did exactly that -- my _average_ stay at one place is under 4-5 years, all over 35+ years employment history. And a better deal it was, in some way anyway. But it still hindered my evolution, and secondly, let us not forget that the OP seems to be based in EU, finding a good-match employer might be harder next time.

This is why I didn't recommend it.
Intel chips which power millions of computers have a terrifying ‘vulnerability’
it's pretty prominent in a lot of browsers, like firefox and safari (from the top of my head)
This is really more an issue for public companies than private companies. Public companies tend to make decisions that favor short term gains for shareholders in the upcoming quarter. It's a give and take, they initially get a lot more money to play around with going public, but then become handcuffed to chasing profits for their shareholders.

Really though it should be up to companies to align themselves to whatever vision they have. Politicians should just stay out of it.
> Considering Germany is an economic powerhouse this law probably isn't harming the economy.

Not only a good economy, but it still has industrial output. There are plenty of big German car companies. It's not just "services". Plenty of politicians want to "bring back those blue collar jobs"
Does that include pension plans? Looks like it doesn't.
#include "TheRestOfTheFuckingOwl.h"
I don't what Lu's exact involvement was, but "Bing" was a huge improvement over the "MSN search" and "Yahoo search" that really were the same product.

The genesis of Bing is said to be the acquisition of the company PowerSet which did large-scale data extraction from DBpedia and similar sources to make a knowledge graph.

Google had ridiculed this approach before but when Microsoft came out with Bing which was comparable in quality to Google, Google was shocked and they bought Freebase and started talking about a "Google Knowledge Graph".

Anyhow you should try it. Bing and Google are comparable in search quality -- some people might prefer some SERPs from Google or Bing for certain queries, but the difference between raters is bigger than the difference between search engines.