skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The oft-discussed here "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes -- intriguing and possibly wrong, but still a fascinating read -- argues otherwise. This is what Jaynes has to say about Achilles [1]:

"The word psyche, which later means soul or conscious mind, is in most instances life-substances, such as blood or breath: a dying warrior bleeds out his psyche onto the ground or breathes it out in his last gasp. The thumos, which later comes to mean something like emotional soul, is simply motion or agitation. When a man stops moving, the thumos leaves his limbs. But it is also somehow like an organ itself, for when Glaucus prays to Apollo to alleviate his pain and to give him strength to help his friend Sarpedon, Apollo hears his prayer and "casts strength in his thumos" (Iliad, 16:529). The thumos can tell a man to eat, drink, or fight. Diomedes says in one place that Achilles will fight "when the thumos in his chest tells him to and a god rouses him""

(Note that, simplifying a bit, Jaynes argued that the men in the Illiad were consciousless robots which "heard the voices" of the Gods telling them to do things, instead of having an inner monologue)

and

"The Iliad is about action and it is full of action — constant action. It really is about Achilles' acts and their consequences, not about his mind. And as for the gods, the Iliadic authors and the Iliadic characters all agree in the acceptance of this divinely managed world. To say the gods are an artistic apparatus is the same kind of thing as to say that Joan of Arc told the Inquisition about her voices merely to make it all vivid to those who were about to condemn her. It is not that the vague general ideas of psychological causation appear first and then the poet gives them concrete pictorial form by inventing gods. It is, as I shall show later in this essay, just the other way around."

[1] http://www.julianjaynes.org/origin-of-consciousness_english_...
Is the 100% failure rate for this facial recognition system not "objective fact" enough?
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And this is an important distinction, especially for investors. Selling data is a one-time occurrence, and requires a lot of effort to maintain revenue. Selling access however uses a subscription model, and guarantees future revenue with a lot less effort. It's the same with software sales vs software subscription models (whether through cloud platforms or support contracts).

That distinction should not matter to lawmakers though.
I've found that "scala" and "excel" are ranked exceptionally high.

I don't know but maybe the author it's looking simply for "excel" and "scala" in the text without taking in account surrounding space. So:

- "scala" would match "scalable" and "scalability"
- "excel" would match "excellent"
Does the study include WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram?

I'm curious to know how to figure changes when you include Facebook owned services in addition to the primary Facebook platform.
Indeed. I find VMWare Workstation to be a significantly better product as well. I hate using VirtualBox.
I’m a tech person and I struggle. It’s a chat app; shouldn’t be so complex.
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While that is to an extent a hindrance, it is also an opening.

Social groups in real life are relatively contained. Facebook just mushes it all together. This is one of the few things Google+ got right, with asymmetric relationships and ease of controlling who sees what.

While Google+ "failed", that's the attack angle I'd take if I wanted to go after Facebook: Look for ways to let people better limit sharing, to encourage deeper sharing. To truly get that right you need to also let people manage separate identities.

Though really, I'd like to see more decentralised approaches to take over.
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I installed OpenVPN on my DO box after a hotel (Legoland CA) tried to MITM Dropbox, Reddit, and a few other sites. The app/browser caught this, but it rendered them unusable.

But in general, yeah I’d trust DO over Comcast or Verizon. I believe one of the US cell phone providers have been caught injecting tracking cookies into http headers in the past and selling customer information fits nicely into their business model.

I tend to only use it when I’m on sketchy WiFi networks though.
Yeah, similarly with "Excel". Are there really that many posts looking for people with deep spreadsheet experience? Seems more likely that it's a lot of false positives for "excellent" and "excel at".
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I like this idea. Actually, earlier today I set up a private Wordpress site that I will use to share photos of my kids to my family and relatives. One reason I wanted to this is that my dad doesn’t use Facebook. I could have chosen iCloud, but I prefer to use something that I control myself and is not tied to certain hardware. The site is hosted on a VPS on Digitalocean which is very convenient and the price is reasonable.
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We indeed pass the cost of imagery to customers, but it's flexible. I.e. given the location and customer requirements we have a decision tree that picks the best image source from multiple providers based on freshness, spatial resolution, cost, and some other factors.
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>> It’s an app for running VMs, not a piece of consumer software

On Macs, Fusion and Parallels are arguably consumer software. In the early days of x86 on Mac, they were the carrot to lure a lot of non-technical people who used Windows at work to get a Mac.

Since there are a lot of people who gravitate towards "free as in beer" software, you can't not expect a Mac user to at least look at VirtualBox as a consumer app. There are probably plenty of Mac oriented listicles that recommend VirtualBox as a free option for running Windows VMs on Mac.
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I think as ethical, intelligent and conscious individuals, we folks in the developer and hacker community want people to make decisions on the basis of principles, when the reality is that people generally make decisions on the basis of convenience. In fact, people are often willing to sacrifice their principles (to a certain extent) in the name of convenience.

If we want people to use principled technology, then we need to be able to honestly advertise products as "it's just as good as X, and also doesn't violate [your privacy|human rights|the environment|etc.]" If we have to say, "It's not quite as good, but..." then we're dead in the water. (Side note: I switched to Firefox out of principle and I'm hopeful it will hold the line on market share, since it really is just as good as Chrome.)

The issue is that we're dealing with corporations who aren't just rich and powerful, they are also innovative, agile, and laser-focused on providing consumer value. Slack is doing an amazing job at serving their users!

You wrote, "we have to find ways to make better apps built on top of open protocols." It's a really interesting dilemma and I suspect it's one that isn't solved by better technology, better design, etc., but rather by addressing the base economics of the situation. We need a scenario where principled, open-source, ethical technology is generating the kind of investment we're seeing in Silicon Valley unicorns so they can innovate the same way.
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I'd buy one of those badges.
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That's a good idea. We need a decentralized facebook, where everybody hosts and shares their data.

It would need a registry or identity provider for the initial contact, but then it should replicate facebook functionality in a decentralized way. If you want to see posts in a group (like facebook group) - you query online members part of the group for their data, and download/share the latest version.
IMO, if you really are worried about Facebook you should be equally worried about Google.
We have tools to accommodate collaboration but I believe something gets lost when you remove those water cooler conversations and physical interaction.

In regards to your commute, wouldn't a 40% lower salary be worth 4 extra hours everyday? I guess it depends on the math but unless you're being compensated for the commute(in which case it's just work on the train/metro) that seems like an incredible sacrifice for a bigger paycheck. At what point is your time worth it?
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All the usual suspects. It'll die like the google chat thing(s).
I hope OP took that into account. Seems like pretty low hanging fruit when cleaning your data.
I used to think before speaking. That would screw up informal conversations. Now I speak what I’m thinking. Think out loud.

I only need to pause when I’m thinking something negative or potentially offensive, then I say something like “oh that’s interesting”... pause (and think)... then say something neutral like “I would have done/thought/handled that differently”.

My wife can speak for 10 mins in seemingly one long sentence, and her opinion can change from the beginning of the sentence to the end. It’s just because her brain is spewing out. However, people love talking to her.
Ye it's probably worse. Companies are happy to go along with US law, but can't be bothered to follow the law of other jurisdictions...
Credentials are very helpful but none of the boot camps gives credentials worth a damn and plenty of their graduates get good jobs. Credentials are not always bad everywhere necessary.

My statement about the average class of 15 year olds is based on my exposure to the children I tutor, having been a 15 year old myself, observation and a certain amount of reading in the psychological literature, mostly the monotonic increase in conscientiousness that goes at least into the late twenties.

I actually have great respect for the capacity of teenagers to learn and achieve; I just think very little of their discipline. I’ve no doubt at least a third of the average high school class could do lambdaschool’s front end or data science course. Given a similar level of support, scheduling and structure I’m sure at least a quarter could complete the curriculum of many Master’s degrees. But the average college student is older, more conscientious and smarter than the average 15 year old. Twenty percent drop out. More graduate in six years than in four. The average 15 year old is in no way prepared to self study given just text books and a syllsbus.
Sure, they would of course need coordination just would not need to be told about every movement and addition. Think agile vs. waterfall.
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Yes, I am actually curious to hear Brian's take on Go's runtime, given its rather impressive performance characteristics. Brian is also bearish on segmented stacks.
> I wouldn't worry about this seriously.

> And I never said it is something to not worry about

You're honestly one of the worst types of people
If FLOSS developers started building their software products like businesses built their products, then they would have to turn into businesses. You see this in pretty much every segment, I'm looking at you, Canonical.

More to the point, there is always going to be some value-added service a profit-seeking enterprise is going to be able to provide over what's freely available. If we built IRC 2.0, then Slack 3.0 will provide what everyone hates about IRC 2.0 and then the dynamics of profit seeking will drive Slack 3.0 to divorce from the free alternative.

We see this pattern over and over and over again. It doesn't happen necessarily because businesses are being ruthless, but because there's always going to be a market space, even in the face of a fantastic free service. That's just how a market economy works.
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I'll freely admit I'm loud about it because people saying "can't" to mean "won't" or "shouldn't" is a pet peeve of mine. It's misusing language to elevate personal decisions to logical imperatives ("I'm sorry, I can't come to your party"), or moral grey areas to moral black and white ("Facebook can't sell your data to other corporations!").

It's misleading and it shouldn't be used that way. Can't be used that way, even...
Well, I'm perfectly happy with [1]fugitive thank you :)

Joke aside, why is magit magic?

1: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
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I've had it with computer programming, I'm absolutely exhausted consistently. In order to work, I need to take a total of two hour journey, I work 10 hours a day, a total of 12 hour including commute. I hardly get time to see my family. I sleep less than 4 hours, due to extreme stress. It's causing me more mental problems consistently (extreme depression, anxiety, etc), on top of existing mental health issues (PTSD, bipolar).

I have no other employable skills, and I'm the sole earner in my family, I had a kid, and a wife. An apartment. A dog.

What is the next steps I need to take in order to get into a different profession while keeping food on the table and a roof over my family?
As others have mentioned, it’s possible the analysis was done through straight string matching; would know for sure once the code is open sourced.
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OP here. As some people were commenting, Scala and excel I guess have some false positives which reflect the unusual popularity. I did try to limit the search to exact word, but think that I overlooked that part. I will try fix the code and update the skills chart soon. Thanks for pointing it out.

Edit: I fixed the false positives using a word boundary on regex "\\bword\\b". The data now seems little sane, will keep looking for any false positives. updated the data and regenerated the chart using new data.
I asked a friend to review and I hope know it is at least a bit better :D

Thank you for your feedback about it.
This is hard to explain to anyone who hasn't done business with the Federal government, but your visions of national security letters are very much on one end of a broad spectrum. At the other end of the spectrum is the mundane.

The mundane includes things like contracting with the Federal government or even certain government contractors. Our company just contracted with PAE, and PAE contractors must agree to much of the same Federal Acquisition Regulations as someone doing business directly with the Federal government. One of the vendor forms was 37 pages long, and it contains sections explicitly requiring certifications that your company will comply with sanctions. The form binds the signer to personal culpability for failure.

So if you're a company contracting in this process you're tasked with preventing delivery of your product to Iran, and the Federal government gets to set the bar, not you. If you fail to meet the bar, you end up in Michael Flynn's shoes, only far less public. How long of a bet is it to expect a Federal bureaucrat will interpret compliance the same way you do? Are you willing to risk inquiry if your opinions differ?

I don't like what's happening here. I don't like it at all, but I know just enough about dealing with the Federal government that I can smell the odor from here.
Indeed, his work is spectacular. I also think that his geometric approach is quite unique and instructive (although I did not get into his books that far).
Not OP, but I'd like the world to be moving toward a paradigm where physical location is not a significant factor in career / pay / advancement. It makes things more "meritocratic," and it puts pressure on some of these big tech hubs to keep their costs of living competitive.

But I don't want to see it if the market doesn't justify it. I think today there is something beneficial to having people working together in an office, but I'd prefer to be proven wrong by some new remote-work management style (or something). And software development is one of the more ideal use cases for remote work, so if it's not expanding for us, it's less likely to expand in other industries.
I struggle with managing hundred of channel after connecting slack accounts. Is can you tell how you did it?
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Cool to see that other folks find this data interesting. I've been analyzing languages/frameworks/skills in the "Who is Hiring" posts for a few years (https://www.hntrends.com/) as well.

I know it's just one part of the analysis, but the skills list appears to be be pretty far off of what I've been seeing. React gets over 200 a month by itself. Are you capturing all pages of the postings in each month's thread? Here's the data (counts) I have through November, broken down by month and term - https://www.hntrends.com/data/data-20181101.js
> I don't think the average business would willingly choose to hire H1Bs if they could employ a US national

I'm absolutely positive you have that exactly backwards.
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if the contracts say something like you are not allowed to save the data into your systems then it is technically true they don't sell data.

Just thinking out loud in weasel here.
Using this release with Vagrant and the ubuntu/bionic64 (20181214.0.0) box resulted in a very slow boot process which caused Vagrant to abort due to the boot timeout.

It looks like this was caused by a workaround I had implemented for the exact same issue on previous releases:

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "disconnected"]

After removing this line the box boots up normally again.
Absolutely not. Just look through this thread. So many people fetishize "markets" to the point where they act like it's reasonable for people to simply roll over and die if they haven't achieved a certain level of wealth, it's disgusting.
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Probably the same for rust, looking at the October 2018 data set with https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ rust gives 50 results, trust gives 21, \brust gives 26. Similar results for scala.
I would hope so, as that is what the Win10 version of Docker-for-Windows does.
> Free market health care would operate in the same way, if it existed.

Any particular reason you think that?

Cafes sell standardized products--if we order the same small latte, we get the same thing and pay the same price. If you "require" something different, you pay a different price. Almond milk, for example, is $0.50 extra, near me. Flavored syrups cost a quarter.

Medicine is a lot less one-size-fits-all. Your fractured arm could be harder to repair than mine and thus takes longer or requires more supplies (and those aren't cheap--bone screws can run $40+/each). Maybe a diagnostic test is inconclusive and needs a more expensive follow-up. You can't really know how some of this is going to go beforehand. I suppose some places could offer a prix fixe option, based on their expected cost + a safety margin. I bet many wouldn't though, because the variance can be huge.
Scala is the most popular skill. Is there something I don't know about Scala and the reason for its success?

PS: I use Kotlin/Java for web development.
Blogger (blogspot) could have been the thing all along.
Otherwise known has "Hanlon's Razor" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
That’s an interesting idea but creating decentralised social networks seems quite hard. IMHO it’s easier to just use regular web sites running e.g. Wordpress, Discourse or SMF[0].

[0] http://simplemachines.org/
It also isn't a valid reason to ban an otherwise non-sanctioned citizen for life.
> I believe Disney currently still have copyright on their adaptation of the 19th century fairly tale (as the "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" film came out in 1937). But as the original source material is in the public domain so you can take that original source material and adapt it for your own creation.

This is technically true, but in practice the effort necessary to avoid infringing on Disney's parts of things has a really clear chilling effect on derivative use of the original public domain work.

Really only other large corporations with deep pockets for ip lawyers can afford to even risk it.
Yes, it's called price discrimination:
https://econsultancy.com/what-is-price-discrimination-and-is...
I don't see the problem. People are enjoying a free and voluntarily transactions, buying stuff that many others would find stupid, yes. Do you want to impose your notion of what's worthwhile to buy on other people?
One more reason to do away with government regulated companies and move towards decentralized softwares
I (re)started my consultancy in part so I could work from home. My commute had gone from 2 hours a day to 3 hours a day with the rise of traffic in the Toronto area.

I meet with clients a couple times a month and I am on the phone, slack or webex/ringcentral/google hangouts etc.. a few hours a week.

I am _sooooo_ much more productive now (with fewer distractions) that I work on average 500 hours a year less than I used to. That doesn't even begin to factor in the quality of life issues. I now drive 8000km per year versus over 20,000km per year.

Some jobs, some roles, yes, you need to physically go somewhere. For me, for what I do? There is no benefit.
The Zuck just needs to say he misspoke rather than lying. It worked well for Clapper.
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Have an anyone reached to unknown person (guru in certain skills) possibly out of your network to get directions w.r.t technical skills, career guidance etc ?
If yes, how to approach and what to expect ?
There are still some really good blogs out there! Usually focused on niche topics.
The degree of grand standing over this issue leads me to wonder who among the donor base is pushing for such action. Obviously many would welcome something similar to "GDPR", and the question is always how such regulation can be levied in favor of incumbents.

Our new digital footprints are much more detailed, but I've yet to understand how they're fundamentally different from what media companies have been selling for most of the last century.

I don't preclude the possibility that they might be, I've just not understood it yet.
This honestly seems just a mistake.

Skimming a few of the posts, there are maybe 15+ references to C++ for post, and 1 for Julia at most.

The detection algorithm seems to be a bit iffy.
I'm curious, have you followed those discussions, and have you noticed say Google or Facebook do anything to "nudge" the protocol towards being "more convenient to use" (read: less secure) and less privacy friendly than it was originally intended to be?
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Objects are dependent on each other and new, legitimate edits can happen on top of damaging ones which we would not like to revert automatically.

Yes, there are tools in place which can revert edits, but there is still manual checking required. The annoying thing is that companies sometimes go ahead and "invest" money into edits which turn out to be garbage and then volunteers need to revert or fix them up.
Deliberative democracy is great. Put people in enriched decisionmaking environments for better outcomes, and then get greater democratic legitimacy from doing so than even some representatives? Win win.

This is the opposite of populism too: when we voted Brexit in the UK, it was an uncontrolled, information-scarce (and falsehood-rich) environment. A room where people were organised and where they asked for their own experts and talked to one another would never have delivered that result.
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You could call it "GeoCities"
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