skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounded like questionable methodology- students had access to notes and slides, but it noticeable didn’t mention videos. Professors can communicate what they consider relatively important (and therefore what’s likely on the test/evaluation criteria) verbally and non-verbally during lecture, which can be captured by decent videography. If the non attending section didn’t get the video they were not given full course information.

That being said, as others have pointed out attendance likely increases skin in the game and results in more work in general. Another improvement across the general population is the social aspect of class, forming study groups or informal support structures, as well as increased attachment to material by being part of a group in general.

While as professional I much prefer MOOCs (even if I don’t finish them) I don’t think I would have gotten through my college curriculum without that social context. Just too many distractions. In fact, the most common reason for people failing out of my program was over use of video games and other media (drug and alcohol abuse got you placed into a rehab cycle with possibility of return). Being wanting to keep up with my known peers definitely motivated me to work more and consume material better
Those people should be earning more than minimum.
It would be nice to hear opinions from the workers at amazon.

I find it very compelling to agree with you. But i also like to make my own decision, to negotiate. My ideal, at least. And i expect my elders and seniors to teach me about the dangers in this world. And I also think, its a two way street. I will not risk my life, and Amazon does not want dead people.

And is US and Dubai really comparable? Why do people go so far, to work there? Don't they tell their relatives at home, how shitty it is? Why are they going? Why do they risk it? And who am i to judge their decision making?

Many confusing signals i receive.
Sorry, I can't parse that at all. Could you be a bit clearer on what you're trying to say here?
Then again, I assume those texts are written by humans for humans. So isn't the "correct" sentiment exactly what humans tend to make of it? And if humans aren't very good at detecting the sentiment, maybe the writer is at fault, not the readers.

I think letting a number of people read the text and choosing the majority vote as the text's sentiment might not actually be a very bad way of determining that.
Add the "Pixel" range to confusing version numbering:

"Chromebook Pixel" (a Chromebook released in 2013, commonly called just "Pixel")
"Chromebook Pixel" (a Chromebook released in 2015, commonly called "Pixel 2")
"Pixel" (a phone released in 2016)
"Pixel 2" (a phone released in 2017)
"Pixelbook" (a Chromebook released in 2017)

Or even worse, the Moto ranges:

"Moto G" (a phone released in 2013)
"Moto G" (a phone released in 2014)
"Moto G" (a phone released in 2015)

Luckily, they have learned from their horribleness and now officially include the generation in the name, making their new naming scheme one of the best:

Moto G5 (5th generation of their mid-range phone)

Compare with Nokia:

Nokia 1
Nokia 2
Nokia 2.1
Nokia 3
Nokia 3.1
Nokia 5
Nokia 5.1
Nokia 5.1 Plus / Nokia X5
Nokia 6
Nokia 6.1
Nokia 6.1 Plus / Nokia X6
Nokia 7
Nokia 7 Plus
Nokia 8
Nokia 8 Sirocco

I have no clue what is what and it's confusing enough that I don't want to buy their phones even though one of them is most likely exactly what I want (high-range but not top-range phone that has stock or near-stock Android and receives updates quickly).
Honda only invested $750 million in Cruise itself, the 2.5 billion is the total amount of what they are investing in the project, which includes the development of a new vehicle. As per the linked article.
In other words: they're (typically) shell scripts that set up an OS to run a language.

Here's the node one:
https://github.com/buildpack/samples/blob/master/nodejs-buil...
In the trades it's common to have a personal LLC so you can expense your work truck, your lunch, etc and to have your wife own the LLC so you can have a woman owned business (which makes you a more attractive sub for government jobs)
I wish more people understood counterfactuals[1] and the way that "A happened and then B happened" does not necessarily mean that "if A had not happened, then B would never have happened".

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_conditional
I use the notification bar all the time, to get to those controls. Never use it for notifications. Might as well be the quick control toggle center.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Is a Big Fan of the Non-Violent Communication
Gmail isn't just a webmail client - filtering out spam is a major part of any mail service; a mail server that doesn't reliably throw out the appropriate 80% of my incoming email messages simply is not usable.

I could run a mail server myself, but I don't believe that I can achieve comparable levels of spam filtering without excessive effort, so I would need someone else to provide this service.
Search engines do it to some extent too when showing snippets. There must be some special provision saying that isn't copyright violation.

Wondering what did the author use here to extract content? edit: its php-redability, project is here https://github.com/mauricesvay/FullHackerNews
It's because designers are just clueless and don't know how things are implemented. The opposite is also true: the parent is practically an alien here for liking design yet he doesn't even see the point in a photoshop over a wireframe.

I think in general people are too specialized. You probably want designers that do a little development and developpers that do a little design. The full on generalist approach is also poor, I've done both jobs in my life and ended up mediocre at both.
XenoScan – Open Source Memory Scanner Written in C++
yep, I agree.
> This article really highlights how odd our methods of valuing output are. Ultimately if someone is idling for 6 years because they've written a program to do their job for them, who cares? They are delivering the same output which hopefully the company deemed was valued at X amount BECAUSE it delivers Y amount of profit/returns.

This is why, in 19th century, they've used to call wage labor, as opposed to self-employment, "wage slavery".

You are selling your time, not the goods you produce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
The point of the peer review system is to advance careers, not to produce high quality scholarship.

There are two separate issues here. One is that peer review fails in disciplines that are largely bogus and based on mimicry and posturing.

IMO this absolutely applies to a lot of academic social sciences - but it also applies equally, allowing for changes in tone, convention and social register, to their ideological equivalents on the right.

The other is that we really have a crisis of authority and competence in general. Between fake news, fake reviews, more and less professional trolls and manipulators, empty academic tribal signalling, wilfully dishonest fraud in professional science, the entire PR and thinktank industry of spin, manipulation, and lies for influence, and the slightly milder but still toxic ad industry, there's far too little useful signal now among the tsunami of noise that we have to sift through every day.
> And is US and Dubai really comparable? Why do people go so far, to work there? Don't they tell their relatives at home, how shitty it is? Why are they going? Why do they risk it? And who am i to judge their decision making?

Because people taking this up live in even worse conditions in some of the most abject poverty there is and they have no way to climb up the social ladder that doesn't involve saving some money with this kind of work even at the expense of their physical safety.
Separating out the quality work from the garbage is different than setting out the work done in good faith from the work done in bad faith by people who are otherwise capable of producing good work.
SpiderOak looks interesting. The biggest features for me missing from other "sync a folder to the cloud" type services are selective syncing on a machine-by-machine basis and generating public links for my files. These are the only two things keeping me away from iCloud Drive.
No longer having to beg the bosses for healthcare would mean they could spend their time and energy pressing the bosses for other concessions.
Yep it's a Ruby script that deploys Java. It can run offline. And run tests. And install certs. Nice script.

> For developers, this saves a lot of time, effort, and variance for staging their containers.

Yes. This is scripting. Scripting is good. Sharing your deploy scripts with others is good too. Stop trying to pretend this is a new technology.
"We set out with three basic rules: (1) we’ll focus almost exclusively upon ranked peer-reviewed journals in the field, the higher the better and at the top of their subdisciplines whenever possible; (2) we will not pay to publish any paper; and (3) if we are asked at any point by a journal editor or reviewer (but not a journalist!) if any paper we wrote is an attempted hoax, we will admit it. These rules were meant to ensure that any conclusions we derived from the field came from the field itself, not the unrelated but significant problem that also corrupts academic pursuits: the proliferation of predatory and quasi-predatory journals with extremely low standards. With these rules guiding us, we committed to transparently reporting the results, whether we succeeded or failed."

https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi...

I'm not qualified to say if these truly were considered respectable journals in their fields but the authors had that as an explicit aim.
This isn't simply a case of poor quality control. Sure, hoax articles have made it through some (largely pay-to-publish) journals in other fields from time to time. And yes those incidents should inspire reflection and correction, as well as a hit to the reputations of such journals.

But this is much more. This is about a set of ideas that pass for expert scholarship despite having lost any tethering to to the real world. Just look at this reaction to the hoax:

> Some of the pieces were indeed outlandish (and not all were accepted). But it appears that some were simply based in premises (e.g. social constructionism) or political principles (e.g trans equality) that the hoax authors find problematic but we do not.

https://twitter.com/alisonphipps/status/1047421076509261824

Note that word "problematic." I don't want to know whether social constructionism is considered "problematic", I want to know whether it is true.

There is an actual real world out there that scholars are purporting to study. But when science and empiricism are considered oppressive, all we are left with is posturing and grandstanding over ideology.
Isn't 256QAM on 2.4GHz a proprietary feature?

https://www.cwnp.com/forums/posts?postNum=307358

I always heard that 802.11ac was 5GHz only, and that on dual-band, stations would stick with 802.11n for 2.4GHz
Both Horton and Cloudera require a huge number of partner resellers and consultants. What horton and cloudera have isn't just software, but brand, an install base, and the ability to back it up.

They merged partially because they were both being cannibalized by services revenue they couldn't get rid of.
Now they are struggling to move to the cloud (see Atlas now)

I'm not sure yet another hadoop distro with a bunch of 1 off tooling that is supposedly faster is the answer. Why is all that stuff even needed?
You're looking at the sample v3 buildpack. It's simple because it's a sample.

A current v2b NodeJS buildpack can be found here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/nodejs-buildpack

A current work-in-progress Java buildpack: https://github.com/projectriff/riff-buildpack

I've worked on Buildpacks fulltime twice now for Pivotal.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Package systems on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-compilers glitter in the dark near the obscure Nokogiri-interacting-with-stray-environment-variables-if-you're-using-a-slightly-too-old-SQLite-and-the-symlink-is-broken-due-to-an-upstream-bug-that-wasn't-fixed-because-nobody-realised-this-would-happen gate.

But unlike the shell script, these moments will not be lost in time like rain. They will be shipped reliably, repeatably into production by two professional organisations prepared to assign more than a dozen engineers, watch hundreds of upstream dependencies, invest in millions of dollars of automation, test against thousands of distinct applications with tens of thousands of running containers serving billions of requests per day across multiple customers in multiple countries.

I invite you to maintain a nodejs buildpack yourself. Prove us all wrong.
I think you mean Toyota invested $500 million.
Millions of Cellphone Users Get a National Wireless Emergency Alert System Alert
We also had lots of starvation before subsidies too.
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As someone who's just starting to learn kubernetes (but has a strong background in virtualization and multi-thousand-node environments), I was inclined to agree at first but now see it as more of a modern "home lab" type person. I don't see it as doing it to be a fake-Googler, but more to learn the scalable way of doing things.

Or, as worst, the shortcut to understanding the underlying tech. But, isn't that the point of abstraction?
Saying that their compensation is higher than competitors in the sector says nothing about whether they will be paying out more total dollars after the changes than before.
Right now everyone has a proof of concept demo and people are pouring money in. It's going to take a while and I really can't see a company like comma.ai being a serious player given their approach but maybe I'm wrong. Good luck to them, I hope nobody gets hurt.
Adam, what about Java for deep learning? Is that needed?
Which one? Both that article and this one lists multiple cases where SCIgen-generated papers were waved through:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen#Prominent_results
If your criteria for publication is what is epistemologically true you are going to find it difficult to publish in any domain except possibly pure mathematics or physics.
What is interesting about this? An extra data point to indicate that humans had similarly constrained lifespans when people wrote that book?
Spoken like someone who very little actual real experience with a union.
How is their approach different from Tesla's?
Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings
Nim comes with a search tool, nimgrep, that understands Nim identifiers.
Completely tangential (but it's HN so that's what we're here for ey): if that video represents what normal people look like when they're having an "off" morning, then I am the actual Antichrist.

There is some real potential for comedy in that video, you're missing out :) Turn up the Grinch factor by at least 10. At 00:16, put a "beat": Change the pace, the colour balance, the framing, everything. Lovey dovey intro, music, la la, then BAM waaa waaa nuclear alarm sound, zombie hand slams on alarm, which breaks, etc. (As a matter of fact, show an actual zombie!)

Right now, that "bad morning routine" to me basically looks like... what I imagine the Dalai Lama does in the morning.

Oh and if you're gonna burn toast; actually burn the toast! Black. Burn the house down black. Smoke everywhere. And the car, just show it completely totalled. Like, just the frame is left, somehow. When the meeting's canceled, idk, the office building is just destroyed and it's this person looking out over rubble.

(I assume you probably cobbled this together from stock footage, in which case you're obviously limited by what's available. Still worth looking if you can find some much darker shots? :) basically try and exaggerate much more.)

[edit: sorry forgot to say well done. it's not bad at all, and I think you did really well on the "upbeat" bits. all the more potential for contrast!]
>Sure, there are some features in cars that aren't, but for the most part, a driver knows (should know) their vehicle, and someone driving a 1978 station wagon and someone else driving a 2018 Volvo won't make that much of a difference on the roadways.

Brakes, handling, visibility - better car - better response - safer for others. Also being lighter lowers potential damage impact. Not to mention stuff like sleep at the wheel detection etc.
I'm interested in this question too - I've gotten some excellent parenting advice from HN.
This paper by Dr. Jayson Lusk at Purdue University outlines the valuation of farm support programs (what is being called subsidies in this thread). He also includes analysis of farm support from other countries.

http://jaysonlusk.com/blog/2016/6/26/impacts-of-usda-program...
I think the leaked video of Sergy Brin and his army of senior executives crying at the loss of Hillary Clinton on election night didn't serve the public well. Their hope for lower wages for new hires via unbridled immigration was a big defeat. If anything, it shows what they really care about. The fact that you have senior people, owners even, in a publicly traded company outwardly pandering to a left-leaning ideology and being partisan in nature, this isn't going to sit well with anyone from the outside looking in. They really are this way -- from the owners, all the way down. I woulnd't be surpised if they lose common carrier status, safe harbor status, and being regulated as such. It's a real shame too because they had a good thing going for a while. Hopefully duckduckgo and similar search engines dont follow the same path.
I still disagree with you. The idea that you should only become a software engineer if you want to continue it outside of working hours is one of the reasons our industry is primarily made up of white (or Asian) middle class men. It's perfectly ok to do this as a job, a really good job, a career, but still a just job that you don't pursue out of work. When we discourage people who don't want to code in their spare time we discourage valuable alternative view points and create a horrible homogenous industry (despite our industry effecting just about everyone these days). Many people don't have either the time, resources or inclination to pursue more coding out of work. And sure, the techy who does loads of side projects will be a better coder, but there's a hell of a lot more to this job than coding and it's perfectly possibly to be a good engineer while only doing it 40 hours a week. We need to expel this attitude so we can create a diverse workforce, which is proven to be more efficient.
I'm going to go against the grain here but just putting cameras in classrooms and dumping that on Youtube works just fine. The content on MIT opencourseware feels a lot nicer than things like Coursera or others even if it's more traditional. At the end of the day you just want to communicate efficiently, and imperfect access to information is a lot nicer than no access. Don't sweat the details.
Dungeons and Data Science
Two thoughts:

Every job has “must have” requirements and “nice haves but be willing to learn”. I focus on jobs that will hire me based on the must haves where I can learn the nice to haves.

A lot of times that means the line between “work” and self study gets blurry. I might be “working” 60 hour weeks but producing 40 hours worth of work product and spending the rest of the time learning. That also means now my resume has work experience with the new-to-me technology/framework. It helps to work for small companies. You get more opportunities to learn and do low priority side projects on the job.

If that opportunity doesn’t avail itself, then do a side project and throw it up on GitHub and then we can discuss it.
I'd really like to know if there's a GNU-like project for the human genome.

I do understand that the 'value' in DNA testing is largely the ability to follow the social graph of inheritance along with phenotypical metadata. This is pretty much at direct odds with privacy even for the strictest of 'anonymizing' setups considering that the greatest context-dependent 'utility' such as curing a truly unpleasant genetic disease or persecuting an ostracized person or group is due to identifying and understanding highly anomalous genes, phenotypes, or linkages of interest that come down to damning specificities.

There is one case I can think of that I _might_ be willing to participate in the "Human Genome Revolution", and at first thought it seems to me to be useful to both those that submit their samples and to humanity as a whole: a 'simple' counter of every allele across all DNA samples uploaded. However, I would appreciate feedback as to what are the gotchas here that will be abused, because I'm positive I have not thought such a system through at all and the Monkey's Paw [0] will grant my wish. :(

It would be a project that requires three components listed in increasing importance:

1. Cheap commodity DNA sequencer that can export its data in a free format.
2. A network protocol for uploading DNA alleles to a swarm of peers that archive and distribute the total counts.
3. A probablistic anonymizing data structure that combines something like a generalized crypto accumulator[1] and a zero-knowledge negotiation process between the network and a client for incrementing the common counters above a fairly large threshold such as maybe several thousand or million submissions. Perhaps uses a modification of something like the approximate counting algorithm[2] in a game setting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%27s_paw
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulator_(cryptography)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_counting_algorithm
This is not an accurate statement: see the USDA info on non-crop specific programs that are counted as farm support programs:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/fruit-tree-nuts/policy...
>The presumption of good faith is a valuable component of any community that shouldn't be abused to score stupid points.

Shouldn't we be concerned with the possibility of undetected bad actors who are abusing it for more nefarious reasons?
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People who worked as teenagers working at ice cream parlors report life long pain in their dominant wrist.

Is that something you expect a 16 year old to know is going to happen?

Biomechanics is a complicated subject.
The fact that things like mushrooms are illegal is a great example of government programs that are ill-conceived, purely destructive, and take decades to kill.
My experience was the same as yours, resources explaining things assumed technical knowledge far beyond my level or were not very clear. This was a very well put-together article.

My only contribution to the discussion is that if you get a CORS error where you wouldn't expect it, the problem might not be a CORS issue. I spent the better part of a weekend trying to debug why a request to a Google API wasn't working and why I was seeing a CORS error (same thing worked fine on another system). Turns out, it wasn't the same thing, my url had a typo...