skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're conflating a bunch of stuff. New buildings almost always come out of restricted funding from donors, not from tuition.

While schools are hiring more admin staff -- much of it mandated by the federal government -- the amount of faculty is dropping.

Funding for state schools has dropped a lot. This is an undisputed fact. You have places that may have once been 60% funded by the state that are now down to around 10% or so. Of course tuition went up.
> I never said thugs.

I never said you did. The post of mine that you were responding to here was not in response to you; it was in response to GW150914.

> What do you do when a stronger, organized force decides that it wants what you have?

What do you do in this case in our current society? If you think the government is always protecting you from this, you need to think again.
The New Stack: “The Changing Role of an #SRE in an Event-Driven World”
I encourage everyone to read the article before dismissing this news as yet another snake-oil press-releases - there is plenty of background there and it appears that that both BMW and Hyundai are investing, among others, giving some credence to the story.
How to Get Started with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
You largely described 1950 middle class ideal in gender roles.

My first comment was about primate research, specifically bonobos. You are projecting an awful lot that is in none of my comments here.
Has anyone had a negative experience with remote week as described in this article?
I'm eagerly looking forward to when I can replace gas tanks with batteries of comparable energy density, and put 400+HP electric motors in unsafe light old driver's cars.
Opengift Weekly Online Contest: Week 4 Java
You said "They are acting like people in lead positions, full stop."

"Full stop" here would mean that there are no other variables at play.

My answer was "here is a study that shows there are variables at play."

I fail to see why this anger you.

There's more to the article than the headline. Reading through, you see this part:

"Neuroticism describes the tendency to experience negative emotion and related processes in response to perceived threat and punishment; these include anxiety, depression, anger, self-consciousness, and emotional lability. Women have been found to score higher than men on Neuroticism [...] The one facet of Neuroticism in which women do not always exhibit higher scores than men is Anger, or Angry Hostility".
Did Google Meddle in 2016 Election More Than Russia?
Patent Mining Indicates Promising Routes for Research
Things providers and patients should question
I remember when they used to be a great bookstore.
And here I was wondering why Google or another search engine was required to find what I want on Amazon.
My experience is with UC Davis and CSUS, both of which have dramatic shortages of student housing for their over 35,000 student population at each school.
MDMA was originally patented 1912/1914 by Merck, but wasn't really applied for human usage until Dr Shulgin was working with it over 50 years later.
Because the game is rigged. Citizens without debt are a danger to the established order. Why else are young people encouraged to get into tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debt, for a degree in something vague like "business", just to become recruitment consultants. After that they are encouraged to buy a big house (in other words take on a huge mortgage), and 3 cars. Debt keeps citizens chained down and the rich rich.
A good proportion (often all) of C-level insurance executives were actuaries that moved up the ranks. I would say it has quite good advancement opportunities.
Edible !== Tasty
> the cat litter I just purchased is $17.89 at Amazon, $13.49 at Walmart. Last week I bought a chair mat for $21.95 on Ebay - identical item on Amazon was $33.95

At least they're simply charging more. I found this battery charger [0] that costs more the more you buy! You can get 1 for ~$33.00, or you can get 3 for the price of 4 (~$133.00). I selected the single unit and set the amount to 3 and got them for ~100.00 rather than buying the 3-pack for $133.00.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Crosse-Technology-BC700-CBP-Battery-C...
Lucova Inc. | Toronto | Full-Stack Developer | Full Time | Onsite
https://www.lucova.com

> Lucova Inc. is an emerging technology company headquartered in downtown Toronto with a North American presence. We bring technology, data and people together to enhance the human touch-points in the world of offline commerce - think IoT for physical stores. Our tools help brands realize their customer experience aspirations by turning customers’ smartphones into intelligent Bluetooth sensors that interact with the in-store point-of-sale infrastructure - informing staff of their customer’s presence on arrival, enabling hands free payments and generating opportunities for brand moments.

Our target market is the campus market and our mobile app is used to replace the student's mealcard. Using the app you can place preorders, chat with the campus Food Director to provide feedback, check-in to the cashier POS via bluetooth (hands-free checkin) to enable mobile payments. You can also register payment types such as credit card (we work closely with various payment processors). Our mobile payment platform integrates with multiple POS'es including our emerging in-house POS FIITPOS (https://www.fiitpoe.com) and NownPOS (https://www.nownpos.com)

We're a Ruby + Java + Angular based company with a small group of developers looking to add additional developers to our core team and have a heavy influence on our company's direction.

Our culture is great and you get that startup feel while working with experienced developers. We are looking for someone who is passionate about solving problems and loves to get their hands dirty (if you full-stack then it's a major bonus). We are located near Adelaide and Spadina.

Apply at https://www.lucova.com/careers or send resume to martin at lucova dot com
Do Not Eat
It is getting annoying... Everyone has a breakthrough technology... no one has a real battery.
This is really interesting. Have you also considered oil & gas pipeline inspection work as well, corrosion is a big issue here AFAIK. Or factory plant inspections as well?
Yup few negatives are
- low visibility of office politics
- house distractions lile tv, kids, chores etc
- isolation, no socializing
I hate to play the devil's advocate here, but why would Apple make an upgradeable machine? Having everything built in drives sales and they've obviously done the math and come up with the right numbers. They believe they won't get enough new purchases due to upgradability to offset the loss in sales.

The people who are most in favor of this either go PC, Linux or Hackintosh.
In many fields there are waves with the patent expiration cycle, for instance 3D printing or VR.

As the patents expire there is a flurry of new research, everyone obtains new patents and it becomes impossible to create viable products again, until the patents expire and the cycle begins again.
British Army Officer Uses Wargame RTS for Command Post Exercise (CPX)
Dear Apple, I want a PC.
Apparently one can make dry water with a blender - mix fine silica powder and water in a 1:19 ratio (by mass) and put it in a blender for a few minutes.

I'm not going to risk my blender to try it, so who's first?
> If winter is coming for quantum, it’s going to surprise a lot of invested people.

I've never liked these kinds of statements. They're merely statements - statements of the obvious in fact. However, they're positioned in the text as arguments or evidence, even though they're not. The writer makes no explicit claims for the statement - on the other hand putting it where he does allows a suggestible reader to think it has some weight. It just makes my reasoning-skin crawl.
Marvelous Muriel
What's interesting about it? Not surprising that projects show some variance in how much documentation there is and where it lives.
The biggest problems with drones that are insolvable:

- noise

- air flow

- airborne transport is not energy efficient

- malfunctioning drone can cause a lot of damage

I see drones as cheaper helicopters. I doubt they will be used for mainstream transportation or delivery system.
How come these articles never ask the obvious thing: why did college in America very rapidly become so expensive after being so reasonable for most of the prior century.

And how did that magical cost inflation happen at exactly the same time that healthcare costs skyrocketed and the dollar plunged in value? (while at exactly the same time, all commodities skyrocketed and all foreign GDPs skyrocketed).

That's the result of debased standards of living through destroying a nation's currency in the process of funding economic stupidity (massive budget deficits), war, etc.

It's not just that college got so expensive. It's that the standard of living dropped, amplifying an already elevated cost inflation. That's represented in the permanent price increases you see in all commodities for one example (which are priced in dollars). Gold isn't going back to $300; oil isn't going back to $13. Wages didn't keep up with the rate at which the clowns in DC destroyed the American standard of living. Some things are held in check by market forces, you can only inflate the cost of video games so much in a market system, or you rapidly lose buyers. College was able to skirt that market restraint courtesy of the government's student loan backing, which pretended the US standard of living had just kept right on climbing.
I'm currently in their CS program that just opened up in June. I've been a software engineer for about a decade and so have picked up a pretty decent CS background just through osmosis. Here's the response I gave to a young person who wanted to know if they should go to a community college or WGU:

Honestly if I didn't already know like 3/4 the stuff for almost every class I've taken so far I would probably hate this program because the materials and curriculum within each class aren't great. There are lots of errors and sloppiness all around, even on many of the exams. I can imagine trying to learn this all from scratch would be a crapshoot and take a really long time and be really frustrating.

That said, if you're motivated it could be worth the time savings just to get out there and start working. You'll learn far more on the job than you would in the classroom anyway, and for me at least I definitely didn't appreciate the more abstract knowledge I came into contact with before I started working. But after a few years I had an actual application for it, and started to re-examine it in my own time. And it was a lot more interesting and actually held my attention at that point.
Well :

>no central mechanism to control price increases

Which would be "competition" or "regulation", right?

It seems to me that the underlying problem is a principal-agent one (same as in healthcare): my son may want to go to Harvard or Princeton, but I get to foot the bill. If I point out that in-state public university would be much cheaper and nearly as good an education at undergrad level, I get to become Least Popular Dad...
I was wondering if it would be possible, perhaps, instead of using cranes to stack blocks of stones, to elevate an entire building by some small amount every day when there is enough excess energy. Lowering the building in the night to recover some of the stored energy. This would definitely be a very challenging engineering problem but the thought of transforming each house in a city into a battery using only its own potential energy without being dependent on chemical means of storage is intriguing to me.
Dear Apple, I want a cross-platform Macos is probably nearer in what the author wants.
Dear Apple, I want the machine you already said you were working on that will come next year
Google has a lot of good people, but in my experience the interviews are specifically looking for a particular bias -- not just knowledgeable and personable people but specifically people who think a certain way.

I had an interview there recently in NYC. I solved the guy's puzzle too quickly and I think that he thought that I'd prepped (I hadn't). Then we got started on a different problem and I tried to explain how it was a good example of "boolean blindness" and that using a specific form of dependent type was an ideal solution. He looked at me like I had two heads and smugly told me that it's impractical to solve problems this way (but it's a bog-standard type checking problem).

So yes, smart people, but you should know the bias that they have before you decide that you want to work there. It could very well be bad for your career if you _do_ get in.
> As for anti-vaxxing, that's a philosophy that has greater traction in Europe than it does in the US. Wakefield was a British doctor, and France and Italy have lower vaccination rates than most of the US

Based on what?

Child vaccination rates (2017):

Diptheria/Tetanus/Pertusis:
US 94%, Italy 94%, France 96%

Measles:
France 90%,US 91%, Italy 92%

https://data.oecd.org/healthcare/child-vaccination-rates.htm
I live in a small city (~106k people) and the nearest university has quadruple occupancy dorms, with no kitchens, that cost $1200/mo. Apartments in this city are still (barely) under $1000/mo, except the university is in about as remote of a location as you can get in this city. An expensive Sodexo meal plan is required by the school if you live in the dorms.
Working professional doesn't necessarily mean bachelor-degree professionals.

There are plenty of places that hire students full-time, for interships or full positions. Students can even get unskilled jobs - nothing wrong with that.

Working at McDonald's, possibly working you way up to shift leader, team leader or manager is perfectly acceptable.

Just so that you work full-time.
> It is the very definition

You can't make reality be the way you want it to be by defining words. Nobody has absolute freedom in reality.

> Knowing there are repercussions for breaking that trust allows us to treat.

There are repercussions for breaking trust whether there is government or not.

If your claim is that governments do better at enabling trust relationships to develop than a society without government (I'll stop saying "anarchy" since you keep quibbling about the definition of that term) would, then please show your work. From where I sit, governments have possibly done better in some respects, but those benefits, on net, are more than outweighed by the ways in which governments allow people in positions of power to abuse trust without paying any price.
Meanwhile 90% of the banks in France use a 6-digit password that you can't paste because you have to enter it by clicking on a super-secure-random grid... https://imgur.com/a/q91JDXi

Maybe Troy Hunt can publicly shame them into more secure practises but I'm not hopeful.
Meh, when I'm downvoted I prefer to receive a justification. So I return the civility.
There will be a price to pay that's hard to be felt in the early numbers.

I am for the first time considering switching away from Mac simply because getting a relatively powerful machine on mac is how prohibitively expensive.

Remember that Mac/OSX get it's underlying impetus from a vast number of individuals who are not working for big tech etc..
Honestly the best situation for someone like this is to buy a nice $800 Windows machine and do your development in a Linux VM. For years now developers not in the Mac ecosystem have used this approach.

I prefer developing on Mac myself, but have used the other approach too with good success. It works, just maybe not as seamlessly.
A handful of wet sand, probably, though a little more tolerable.
So far I did not have that issue, but I am getting a bit concerned. If that is correct, going to a doctor, despite paying a hefty price, I have to double and sanity check my doctor's prescriptions. I don't want to end up accidentally dealing with terrible side-effects for little gain...

And I can not say I can trust my pharmacist to raise a flag on a dangerous prescription or interference between medication, as I would back home. Perhaps this is a subjective feeling.

P.S. On second thought: I am concerned about a friend who is getting over prescribed addictive medication for chronic back pain (see Vicodin/ Hydrocodone w. paracetamol). I have discussed this with a few family doctors overseas who all agree it is a terrible idea. Yet it is kind of standard in the U.S. Anyone with medical training in the U.S. has experience, thoughts or care to pitch in?
I thought the demon didn't violate the 2nd law because it required an infusion of information/energy to operate that is larger than the energy that can be harnessed from the system itself, meaning it is no longer a "closed system".
For what it's worth, a lot of the documentation for the structure of V8 is in textbooks and decades of precedent set by the Smalltalk VM (which is the ancestor of V8). I suspect that people who worked on HotSpot will tend to understand V8 at some level.
The “Developer Experience” Bait-And-Switch
It's not so much that I believe that the earth will be in utter ruin by 2100, or that I'm a super green environmentalist (I'm not). My pessimism comes from seeing intentional ignorance and utter stupidity every day. Of course, these aren't new problems in the due course of our civilization. I'm just inclined to think that if the proverbial shit ever does hit the fan on a global scale, we'll be reactive instead of proactive, and may find ourselves unable to deal with the problem. I want to be wrong.
Automation doesn’t take days off, and is responsible for most of our productivity gains.
This isn't true for all Universities - and for those where it's still an outdated requirement, we should push to change this. Student housing is a rip-off.
Thanks! XMPP seems to have a steep learning curve for beginners. I'll take a look into it regardless.
I wonder if this sort of silica coating could be an alternative to lipid-wall cells for silicate-based extraterrestrial life.
Spreading the costs among multiple wallets (tuition fees, state funding, private donations, endowments, borrowing) does not mean the costs themselves have decreased.
Artificial intelligence system uses transparent, human-like reasoning
Dear Apple, please change your economic models that made you the biggest company in the world on account of my blog post.
Not entirely - it was already happening before we stuck our noses in. But there's little doubt that we made it worse.

From my perspective, it seems that GWB created the seed that would grow into ISIS. Then it was Obama that gave it the fertile soil to grow.
Closing the Gap Between Performance and Interpretability in Visual Reasoning
Yeah, that's how we have always hired, and I don't see a big problem with CLT (the Brazilian employment law), perhaps with the exception of how vacation time and union membership is handled.

It's bizarre that the threads on this post seem to straddle "founders are only in it to make money off the back of their employees" and "worker's rights and compensation are onerous" simultaneously.
Points I found lacking:

- Comparing cost of education between countries not adapted to overall cost of living

- Importance of college sports in the US vs youth sports in club academies in Europe

- Research conducted inside the university in the US vs external or independent institutes in other countries like France
That's not at all similar. What Volvo offer is: regardless of where your car is parked, before the day is over, your postal package can be found in the trunk of your car.

It's almost like magic. :-P
It's not even necessarily cheap debt. A lot of my undergraduate loans were at rates of 6.8% which I consider somewhat high.

The problem is it's easily accessible debt to people who have no concept of what tens of thousands of dollars is really worth. You see the amount you're borrowing on the form and it's really nothing more than a number.
PostgreSQL 11 and Just in Time Compilation of Queries
Good for them... I still want to see the battery...
We could just go with "Russian Communism" as well and call it a day. Your point is valid, it's not proper Communism as Marx envisioned.
Yes, I'm serious, but it looks like I misremembered, because it took me forever to dig up the post (it turned out not to be on Twitter).

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonshowdown/comments/7eix1o/pok...

The problem wasn't just because of the HTTPS cert, but also because it didn't support WebSocket on port 8000.
It seems like tomorrow is only going to be about iPhone and Apple Watch. iPad Pro and Macs are going to be announced at a later October event.

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/apple-to-...
Hi and thanks ! There are multiple answers to this particular problem:

- We tune the algorithms to give very high recall (up to 98%), at the cost of lower precision (down to 70% in certain cases). This means that we miss very few defects, but with sometimes 30% false positives.

- We capture pictures of each point of the structure to inspect from at least 2 or 3 viewpoints. This means that the 98% recall for each image compounds: if we missed a defect on a picture, we have chances of finding it on other pictures from other angles.

- All our software allows humans in the loop, from data capture to data analysis. This means human experts can validate or correct results from the AI, human drones operators can take back manual control of the drone, and so on. Our automation is here to help humans perform their job, not fully replace them.

- Our customers worry about that a lot, and most of them aknowledge that our method is more effective than traditional methods
Carnegie Mellon’s Andrew Moore to Join Google Cloud as New Head of AI
That question doesn't seem great. People who've spent more time in NYC will likely perform better, since they'll immediately start describing classes of buildings where they've spent time and generalizing, but how familiar you are with NYC is irrelevant to the job.

Depending on your applicant pool, that might be correlated with a protected class, like race, gender, or national origin.
Nemesis: Microarchitectural timing leaks in rudimentary CPU interrupt logic [pdf]
Essentially, the loans act as subsidies for colleges. For the student, it's a different story.

And as with medical care, the response to price increases has been to shovel more money.

>Ultimately, college is expensive in the U.S. for the same reason MRIs are expensive: There is no central mechanism to control price increases. “Universities extract money from students because they can,”

Let me rephrase - There is no mechanism of any kind to control price increases.
>why did college in America very rapidly become so expensive after being so reasonable for most of the prior century

I've seen (sorry, forget where, no citation) studies that suggest the inflation came from three factors:

1. Competition between campuses to attract students led to construction of ever more fancy facilities -- gyms, espresso bars, swanky dorms, sport stadiums, ... which all cost $$

2. Administrators (somehow) became a new rent-seeking class (perhaps see #1?) that extracted maximum $$.

3. Sticker price vs the real price (also same as healthcare) -- when not every student is paying, or able to pay, their own fees, education providers charge different prices. We're only looking at the sticker price here.
In the post they specifically say they can't use Linux due to legal reasons. I imagine this would apply to a VM, also.
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I worked with Matt at the US Digital Service. Amazing stand up guy!
Blenders can be replaced. I would worry more about silicosis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
"Do not stop to be thrifty" -- I imagine that should be "Do not stop being thrifty"?

"Master wedding-feasts" -- what does that mean?

"Grieve for no one" seems odd.
They were talking about editing documents that require licensed / non-open source software, no? Not the actual development?

Edit your docs in windows, write your code on the Linux VM.
Securing MongoDB Using Let's Encrypt Certificate