skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be more interested in that question if:

(a) I'd ever encountered a credible case that common core is a driver of educational problems (most of what I've encountered seems like both sensible pedagogy and a convenient ad hoc test for big 5 traits like modest-to-low openness and high orderliness).

(b) It seemed likely to create a significant difference in the status quo. From my experience examining curriculum over half a dozen majors and universities, common baselines are already pretty, well, common, and where there's variation it's more about how much any institution exceeds the baseline. And I expect this is a function of the facts that the conception of the academy extends beyond individual institutions combined with the fact that there are already accrediting bodies that higher education has to reckon with. So, I don't see much that suggests public initiatives for baseline standards or accountability are likely key problems for secondary ed.
At one point i was considering going for a research engineer position. That seems a bit rarer than a straight PhD program, but involves pretty much exactly what you describe. Pay of course won't be what you're used to in industry, but in my experience (several friends hold such positions) you have excellent job security and a very laid-back work life. I think you often are expected to already hold a PhD to guarantee that you'll actually be familiar enough with the things you're building out/for, though YMMV.

Source: i'm an escaped academic.
Im in the US - and I exclusively use YYYY.MM.DD since its the only thing that sorts properly in a filesystem
Surely the modern curcurbit is the product of years of breeding to remove hairs, seeds, gain length and sweetness.

Do we even know what primitive Sumerian cucumber sandwiches looked like?

Poppy heads didn't need breeder changes beyond potency and size! Seeds there for the grabbing in a handy pocket size container and sap a-plenty.
An impeachment is not a conviction. Bill Clinton was impeached, and that doesn’t seem to have hit the economy particularly hard.

A conviction, now, that might be different. The best comparison in modern history might be to Nixon’s resignation.
Folks doing bootcamps often are doing it on a shoestring budget. They can't scrape together significant deposits and proof of income needed to rent a more legit place.
A lot of it depends on the field.

I went to grad school for chemistry. A PhD in my experience is more an exercise in perseverance than anything. You don’t need to be a genius, just work hard and have some luck as well.
Nor is "improve the lives of everyone" likely even in the top 10 of most politicians reasons for running for office. Power is power, and whether it's in business or government it attracts people who like to wield it.
Not, if your PhD is in something mindless, like political science.
Until we can control the weather and climate, prevent ecological disaster etc we are far far away from having good enough technology.
With the exception of my first burn I've never worn goggles or a dust mask on the playa and I can assure you the dust has not had any severe negative effects on my health. You can pull off a successful burn solo with an $80 tent, some pieces of rebar, a $30 sleeping bag, a pocket flashlight, 20 cans of chef boyardee, and 12 gallons of drinking water. I know because I have done so. If you find a camp to go with the requirements can get even lower. Honestly the hardest part for me was hitching a ride there ($40 gas share) and scheduling the time off work (I quit when I couldn't get it and got another bullshit job when I came back which turned out to be a stepping stone to a much better default life).
Sounds like someone else’s fault, unless he owned and designed the system. No single engineer should be able to cause that kind of damage. Quorum rules, etc.
The capitalization is obvious enough for me.
Yeah, you're probably just biased against someone you know who has a CS degree, or is getting one. It's how humans work.
I got out when this kind of situation became pervasive in SF. The old enthusiasm and love for tech were ground out into this kind of boring dystopia that resides there now. Its immensely sad, SF used to be such a vibrant and energetic place.
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It has it's plussses and minuses. One thing about a Ph.D. program is that it's relatively easier to get funded. Master's students are more likely to have to pay tuition. On the other hand, you can bang out an M.S. in two years. 1.5 in some cases. If what you're after is knowledge and skills, like a BS++, do a Master's. If you want to learn how to advance the field, do a Ph.D. If you're on a mission to fix undergraduate education, please be aware that the problems are deep and systemic, and you will probably not find your idealism welcome.
When I was a student 30 years ago, the rule of thumb was: Don't get a graduate degree unless someone else is paying for it. In my field (physics), a first or second tier school would provide free tuition plus a stipend if they expected to get any students.

Don't know how things are now, or how they are in other fields.

Now, of course free wasn't exactly free, because studying in grad school was potentially at the expense of working a regular job. That's another topic.
My understanding is rudimentary compared to yours, but I learned (perhaps incorrectly) long ago that for 3/4 time (waltz time) you can count:

ONE two three TWO two three ONE two three TWO two three

and that indeed sounds more similar to the article's 6/8 example than its 3/4 example.
Stripping of dignity? Don't agree with that. I think means testing has its issues but its far more fair than lottery type support such as rent control or fixed property taxes which can help the top 1% for no real reason. The big question mark over UBI - is can society afford it?
Sounds like a "covered business method", not patentable.
The longer I work the more convinced I become that kindness is critical. 22 year old me would not agree, but he was wrong.
"Using a private internal storage directory rather than external storage would help avoid this vulnerability: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage...

The system offers it and they didn't use it.

"Why should something like the Fortnite installer have to make any effort to ensure that other apps aren't tampering with what it downloads?"

Because it's running with exceptionally dangerous permissions that Google does its level best to prevent users from granting to 3rd party apps in the first place.
Tweets by paid employees don't count as data points. And yes, I do consider multiple investigative reports finding similar issues throughout the world to be a pattern

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/16/amazon-prime-day-threatened-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/accidents...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-an-amazon-warehouse-trea...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-25034598
I've used Helium a few times before (by the maker of CWM), does it work on Android P?

That reminds me, I just moved 3 Android phones recently (Samsung GN5 broke -> Redmi 4A backup -> Redmi Note 5 replacement), and the only cloud backup that worked were WhatsApp and Line :/ I should backup all my apps for the next time.
By the time I finish my M Eng I will have a cutting edge education in machine learning, robotics, computer vision, and natural language processing, on top of five solid years of paid programming experience.

If someone insists on making a hiring decision based on my ability to whip out fizzbuzz on a whiteboard under a ticking clock, find another person and waste their time. I’ll pass.
Oh no. I hope you find another time in your life where you’re treated as well as you were then.
I use the Samsung voice. It's great. I don't really like the voice actin in audiobooks. I just want to hear the story. The google one is tolerable, but Samsung's is super nice.
It is still being used as of Spring 2018.

Great class.
Political science isn't, at all, mindless, and there are focus areas within it that are extremely rigorous either elitist or analytically or both.

OTOH, there's not a lot of places where a PoliSci Ph.D. would substitute for industry experience (or, for that matter, vice versa.) If you want to substitute an academic degree in that general space for “industry” experience, you go for public policy and/or public administration (or, arguably, law), not political science.
Tell that to the victims of Henry Ford's security forces. We have forgotten history, indeed.
Trade depression and anxiety for ptsd, depression, and anxiety or a possible early death? Sounds like a terrible solution to me.
Idk anything about any of it. But, what if open AI is "bad" at ward placement because it plays itself so much, it already know exactly where it would be if it were the other team?
The constant +-25 is just a consequence of the matchmaking enforcing balanced MMR matchups. It's not like chess where you're more likely to have some kind of imbalance. That's why it breaks at the extremes.
Do you have a book where you just explain various things in this style? I’d buy it.
Of course you cannot answer that based on a single companies culture.

I'm refuting the statement that "saving money by paying peanuts, grinding people down to burnout, and then constantly having to rehire/retrain new people as the old ones leave" is unanswerable in the current context based on 1 company especially because this company seems to be destroying their competition.
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That's all I know, really. It was one of the strangest companies I've ever worked at.

Another story from the same place (won't confirm nor deny if it was the same sysadmin) - someone accidentally pushed a puppet config out that changed all hosts' timezones to CDT. A bit later, I received a random and kinda joking text from a buddy from a past job - who couldn't get an answer from my company's tech support - asking why all of their clearing reports had the wrong times.

He was the only person outside of three other sysadmins who ever mentioned anything was wrong. Not even my boss brought it up! It was odd.
I really don't follow your expectation here. "Data moves in the direction of the arrows" seems natural to me. Can you unpack it at all? I'd like to understand where you're coming from.
I don't know why Antirez is on the defensive here about being open core. So what? If that's a viable model for keeping Redis sustainable, then that's all that matters.

For what it's worth, having closed sourced extensions for an open source licensed core product (in this case Redis) is the canonical definition of "open core", and this post does not really prove otherwise. Sure, there could be some minor variation here (with Redis Labs not owning Redis directly), but largely it's the same model for all practical purposes.
That’s fair, but my assumption was that someone reading my reply would also have read the others, and I didn’t want to repeat what has already been said.
To be a nurse or secretary in those days were almost equivalent to a female executive today - simply because there were almost no female executives then.
Fair enough, and you're quite right about Alpine being geared more for embedded. For general use I find Alpine a bit of a pain due to lack of systemd (bring on the hate ;)), and of course lack of docs hurts usability a bit. With regard to debug symbols, I like what Redhat and Debian are doing with an embedded build id linking binaries to separate debug packages.
:)

Pretty sure the Romans have prior art: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accio
What?

Doctoral programs pay you through stipends. You shouldn't have to pay for any doctoral program, ever.
Brakes aren’t either. You might lose ABS or boost, but you’ll still have brakes.
On an hourly basis, a full time job pays 2-4 times less than a contract job.

What full time jobs give is a sense of security, a community, a sense of belonging. It's not simply a trade of time for money, it's where people build friendships and identity.

It's also quite disrespectful to treat people as disposable. They built up the company, not the boss. To fire 95% of a company, the ones who got them there, that's... cruel.
If you can't fizzbuzz, I'm not going to hire you. Not being able to isn't defensible.

I'm going to be real, what I'm assuming is a near completed master's student complaining about fizzbuzz not being fair is kind of proving my point.
Facts (as far as I can tell -- and sorry for the weird spacing i don't know how to do bulleted lists here):

* DEFCON hosted a hackathon of voting machines ("exact clones")

* Youngsters attending DEFCON searched online and found publicly available the username and password for a given voting machine

* Those youngsters then used the publicly available credentials to log in over the internet to the voting machine

* Those youngsters then changed the votes made on that machine

* It is illegal under the DMCA for "good guys" to attempt to hack a voting machine, either for research purposes or for a real election (which means the only folks that will try are enemy states. You know, the guys you can't prosecute for trying or succeeding.)

* DEFCON successfully demonstrated hacking many voting machines, but this one made sensationalist news headlines

The "misleading information":

* The youngster at DEFCON didn't actually affect a real election. It was only a hackathon at DEFCON.

* The much maligned voting machine is no longer in service (taken out in 2014)

* The youngster was coached in how to hack the machine, he didn't just intuit that he should google for it

Conclusion:

The article's states that we should stop freaking out because it was only a hackathon.

We should freak the f_ck out.

This machine--whose username and password were ADMIN and ABCDE respectively--were decommissioned merely two years before the last presidential election.

That this is the level of sophistication of a 2014 voting machine SHOULD SCARE THE F_CK OUT OF ALL OF YOU. And this article, trying to assuage those worries, should do no such d_mn thing.

Paper ballots should be the only thing legally allowed to determine elections.

Electronic ballots should be the "quick count" but not legally binding.

Anything less is folly.
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Haha, I could go back, except for maybe my pride. I only left for what I thought was a good opportunity personally. (still up for debate on whether it was or not). I don't hate my current job, but my current employer has reached out to most devs on my old team and I've made sure to contact them and explain that it's a huge mistake to leave.

Life is still good. My schedule is still fantastic, but I am missing that certain something where I felt like my personal goals were very closely aligned with my company's goals. I still might go crawling back and beg for my job back sometime though.
> shouldn't be called mental illness

What should mania be called?
>We are concerned about untrained amateurs going directly into trying to solve very difficult global problems.

It's a black and white thinking. Why people who don't have PhD are amateurs? Why person having MBA, MD, JD, MA or BS degree isn't professional?
Absolutely Brilliant!!!
Your lack of understanding of even recent American history is breathtaking. Do a little more reading on the gilded age.
XML has browser support too.
Does paying peanuts here mean—not very top of market? Or?
Indeed. A private company can make money from negative effects equally as well as positive. They prove it by doing so all the time, everywhere, since forever.

And whatever effort private companies DO put into inhibiting negative effects, some part of that is only due to the competition from the public option which has no other incentive at all.
Given Apple’s current market-cap - over 1TN USD - you’ll need a lot of investors.

You’d have much better success by spending a fraction of the money to hire goons to kidnap Apple’s executives driving home from work and “convince” them to change corporate policy that way.
Hmm. When I told the professor trying to "hire" me that I couldn't afford it there was no mention of a stipend. Could it have been different in the 1970s?

Pricing on Stanford website (https://registrar.stanford.edu/students/tuition-and-fees):

Each graduate Engineering unit above 18 is $1200.
Thanks, this is really nice of you.
I'll take your word for it. From the pictures I've seen the vertical distance between the screen and the windshield looked big enough to block most of your view of the road when looking at the screen. Unlike a Toyota where the display is vertically positioned the same as any other dashboard.

There's an entire generation of traffic safety cameras that detect people looking down away from the road and it looks to me like they'd be tripped by a model 3 driver just reading their speed...
This is absolutely not correct, but it is a common misunderstanding I've seen with how people use GraphQL.

I've posted this before, but I despise how GraphQL has "QL" in the name, so folks think it is similar to SQL in that you should expose your database tables as-is with GraphQL queries. You should absolutely not do this.

You should design your GraphQL contracts to closely match the views displayed in your UIs - it even says this in the GraphQL spec: "Product‐centric: GraphQL is unapologetically driven by the requirements of views and the front‐end engineers that write them. GraphQL starts with their way of thinking and requirements and builds the language and runtime necessary to enable that."

If your GraphQL types closely hew to the design of your views, it shouldn't matter how you store them under the covers, and clients should have no need to know any details about the underlying storage schema.
I’d argue that before Pepsi it was actually the diamond industry who really perfected this “better version of ourselves” advertising. They literally convinced the world that diamonds made their lives better, first as an indicator of love and commitment, then later as a sign of success. Not that this detracts from anything else in the post, but I do feel it’s important to call out earlier examples to further convey the point the author was making.
I always figured the text was so you could elaborate on your question since Ask HN posts with just a title are often too vague to answer.
Really curious, why treat these automation capabilities as a vulnerability? Several security popups appeared, a cable was attached, an application executed on the computer... as a user I'd much rather have the possibility in the future of automating my phone's UI than to have vendors treat this as a vulnerability and patch.

Edit: Just realized that the commands bypassed the prompts. That is a different beast. But the question still remains.
Epic's Fortnite Installer allowed to install anything on your Android phone
Question for the OpenAI team: have you ever thought about applying Five to other games, as it is?

I'd suggest Total War: Warhammer II (it has an interesting competitive scene, and has both tactical combat, and strategy gameplay), which is very different than DotA 2, but it would be super intriguing to see how it performed, and how fast it could learn.

If you built Five in the right way, it should be able to learn with mostly any other game.

I can also imagine you offering this to gaming companies in the near future, so that they could provide a decent computer AI instead of the crap they usually offer now :)

(source: I used to be a videogamer in my teens, and occasionally still play some strategy games, not as often as I would like to :D)
Here is the relevant section.

The “manipulative and deceptive devices” prohibited by Section 10(b) of the Act ( 15 U.S.C. 78j) and § 240.10b-5 thereunder include, among other things, the purchase or sale of a security of any issuer, on the basis of material nonpublic information about that security or issuer, in breach of a duty of trust or confidence that is owed directly, indirectly, or derivatively, to the issuer of that security or the shareholders of that issuer, or to any other person who is the source of the material nonpublic information.

The list is long but not total. If you happen to overhear something at lunch one day that’s fair game. The chain can be long and thin but it needs to exist. Aka A lawyer who’s client is the husband of an accountant for a company trying to do a takeover and your out of luck. Now it’s safer to shorten that to non public information = off limits, but not accurate. https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/l...

‘The Court, however, determined that, for a tippee to be liable, “the insider personally [must] benefit, directly or indirectly, from his disclosure.”35 In the Dirks case, the insider who provided the confidential information did so to expose a fraud in the company, not for any personal benefit. Therefore, the Court held, the insider had not breached his duty to the company’s shareholders, so the defendant (tippee) in Dirks could not be liable for insider trading.‘
This is fairly shallow. It doesn't really explain why surveillance and manipulation became the dominant business models of the Internet.

I think the culprit is "free." Everything has to be "free." As a result, some indirect means must be found to pay for it. The most convenient model is to turn it around and make the user the product. Use free services to attract users, then surveil and manipulate those users for paying customers -- advertisers, governments, intelligence agencies, think tanks, etc.
> So, there are clear efficiency and quality gains to be had if the system is specialized.

I'd agree that "specialization" is a good thing when it means that educators have the training needed to most effectively deal with other-than-typical circumstances. But it may be less of a good thing when it means segregating those students into their own classes or their own schools, which I think is what GP is saying effectively happens with charter schools. Setting aside the cost argument, giving students a chance to interact with and befriend those with different backgrounds, circumstances, and abilities benefits the students and society, though it may not be reflected in standardized test scores.
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> For Redis to be "open core", Redis Labs would have to be the owner and copyright-holder of the Redis codebase

Cloudera (Hadoop), MapR (Hadoop), Elastic (Lucene), LucidWorks (Lucene/Solr), DataStax (Cassandra), and DataBricks (Spark) are all companies with an "open core" business model around Open Source projects hosted at the Apache Software Foundation. (Those are just off the top of my head -- there are plenty more.) All ASF projects have many copyright holders.
My guess is they proved that quantum computers can't break it, and they would rather we stay on RSA so they can sweep things up and crack them all when they get to it.
I don't think so; it seems more of a San Francisco thing. If nothing else, it's more shared "house"ing than "apartment"ing.

The hours are long down here though too. But IMHO the companies are more interesting.
Not saying you're wrong, but the implication that such public research would happen assumes facts not in evidence.
This part struck me as so sad:

> Programming for me was never supposed to be more than a means to an end

Programming is one of my favorite things to do and I do it even when my job is something else. Why do it if you don't like it? No wonder it seemed hopeless.
IIRC some of the main reasons OpenAI chose Dota2 were that it ran on Linux and had a bot API. Does Total War fit these requirements?
> If you even know something is a .Net app then the developer is likely terrible

For sake of argument, this is pretty easy to do just by looking at job postings.