skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many circumstances, yes. Fraud and commercial speech are subject to more restrictions. If someone isn't holding themselves out in a commercial context as one who is licensed to practice medicine, isn't actually practicing medicine, and isn't otherwise committing fraud, it's probably ok legally speaking.

See United States v. Alvarez for a Supreme Court case that grapples with such issues. A man falsely claimed to be a veteran and a recipient of the Medal of Honor at a government meeting. He was prosecuted and convicted for this conduct. He appealed to the Supreme Court and won.
This is in fact rarely done; the fossil record is sparse. In general data on the evolutionary background is sparse.

Let's take an example I have been contemplating lately: pruny fingers. When my baby goes in the water, his fingerpads and toes turn wrinkly. There is a supposition, part of the "Aquatic Ape Theory" that is a famous example of an evolutionary just-so story, that this is an adaptation to allow better grips in the water. Sounds good to me - but how could we test this claim?

We could start with physical tests (does grip actually improve when your fingers are pruney?), but we immediately run into trouble. A grip on what? In what sort of conditions? Did these conditions exist in the adaptive context that produced this phenotype? We have no idea.

There might be rare circumstances where we can observe the coincidence of environmental and phenotypic isolation (e.g. cattle herders who are lactase persistent), but the vast majority of features will be lost against the general evolutionary background of our species (e.g. everything separating humand from chimps, both genetically and environmentally, is one confused ball). But even those rare cases are still inferential; the inference seems strong and parsimonious, but its still, at the end, "just so". We can never prove causality.
A couple other advantages is it is likely more secure than having your credit card stored across many sites (although Stripe solves that too), and if your card expires, you only have to update one thing.
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We stand upon the brink of a precipice. We peer into the abyss -- we grow sick and dizzy. Our first impulse is to shrink from the danger. Unaccountably we remain. By slow degrees our sickness and dizziness and horror become merged in a cloud of unnamable feeling. By gradations, still more imperceptible, this cloud assumes shape, as did the vapor from the bottle out of which arose the genius in the Arabian Nights. But out of this our cloud upon the precipice's edge, there grows into palpability, a shape, far more terrible than any genius or any demon of a tale, and yet it is but a thought, although a fearful one, and one which chills the very marrow of our bones with the fierceness of the delight of its horror. It is merely the idea of what would be our sensations during the sweeping precipitancy of a fall from such a height. And this fall -- this rushing annihilation -- for the very reason that it involves that one most ghastly and loathsome of all the most ghastly and loathsome images of death and suffering which have ever presented themselves to our imagination -- for this very cause do we now the most vividly desire it.

In The Imp of the Perverse by E.A. Poe.
This kind of harassment is completely incomprehensible to me. Especially as the work of a single individual. How one can be so full of spite and hate and so empty of empathy, I cannot understand. I get how mobs can do this by stirring themselves up into a frenzy, but for an individual to persistently lie and flame someone in an attempt to ruin their life, without stepping back and reconsidering what is the point. I must be naive to not be able to comprehend this kind of behavior.
You could hurt someone with it. Its not as intimidating as copper, but its going to hurt. Never tried to break a window with it.

https://www.lowes.com/pl/PVC-pipe-PVC-pipe-fittings-Pipe-fit...
I'm going by the legal definition of harassment. Specifically the definition of harassment that is not legal.
“The record before this Court demonstrates that the Board has repeatedly targeted individuals for using the title ‘engineer’ in non-commercial contexts, including core political speech such as campaigning for public office and advocacy against a local ballot initiative.”

Although I agree with the sentiment of the article, I do think it would be deceptive for a politician to claim to be an engineer if they hadn’t done any engineering.

“Unlike an “M.D.” or “certified public accountant,” there is no fixed meaning to the title “engineer,” but many different types of engineers, the judge found.”

Haven’t really thought through all the ramifications of this, but it could actually be beneficial for software engineers to have an official accreditation. It could help develop accountability and best engineering practices.
Harrassed online, just dont go online!

I hope you see the problem there.
You usually do not even want a global optimum with a high capacity model such as a DNN anyway (SVMs memorize only a small number of data points), because that possibly means that you are overfitting to your training dataset.
Actually it struck me as really tenacious of him and I'd be willing to believe he has some merit. I'd like to see the data.
You mean like playing any other kind of sports or game? Or entertainment in general? And in this case, it does not even appear that the author really expects you to memorize anything. It’s just a few neat properties and tricks. This is not a serious article.
I’m pretty sure the historical rate has been around 4%. Depends on the population, Wikipedia cites 2-12%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-paternity_event. Wouldn’t be surprised if that study had some kind of confounding variable
There's nothing inherently better about any specific trade-off between time and money.

Not buying a car and riding the bus saves hundreds of dollars per month but costs hours a day. Eating out saves the effort of cooking and washing dishes. Hiring a maid might be used out of laziness or to eek out more family time.

I have to remind myself to try to focus on what really makes my life better. Usually that involves estimating time+money+intangible factors. And if it will still be useful in a year.
It's a neat API as far as window managers go.
But I'm afraid I can't use it unless it is open source.
Most WMs are open source, Xmonad, awesome, and i3 come to mind. With a little bit of hacking, you can setup Xmonad w/ XQuartz on OS X, but it is a bit buggy. I couldn't get xmobar to work, and keybinds don't work all the time, especially if XQuartz has an existing keybind for that particular key.
That's the route I'm going down, but for someone not so skilled in electric engineering, there's a bit of work getting the battery working and wiring up the switch, then making a suitable case. I'd like to just focus on the programming side of things, and am a little surprised there isn't an off the shelf solution.
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> Searching through online documentation was always one of my most sore points when using other programmable window managers

For me that is always one of the most sore points of almost every single desktop application, or at least those released this side of the millennium (older stuff tend to have actual offline documentation with them).

I don't use macOS these days (i dislike how Apple doesn't care about backwards compatibility and every time i upgrade macOS i have apps i bought break left and right - at this point almost nothing works on my oldest iMac), but thumbs up for providing your users documentation with the software they bought instead of sticking it to some wiki in a web server somewhere and hoping for the best (of course having the docs available on the web is fine and for some welcome, since they can check out what the app can do before even buying it, just not as a replacement for local docs you can pull up at any moment regardless of your internet connectivity - or even version of the software).
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I would argue that occupational licensing is extremely overdone, even in the riskier professions like medicine and dentistry. Here is a recent article from the NYT about the horrible situation of cosmetology licensing: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/business/cosmetology-scho...

I'm not saying we don't need occupational licensing whatsoever. But there is no reason someone can't learn to drill a cavity in 6 months of training. $400k of dental school debt is not required.
> Uncommonly downloaded is applied to any download that is new or has been modified/updated until Google has a chance to examine the download using multiple data centers. Once the download has been examined enough times, the warning will be removed.

So apparently we just have to wait until Google's servers decide my app isn't dangerous. Ironic considering I paid the $100 for Apple to notarize the app through Developer ID to remove that same warning from macOS when you first launch the app!
> The feature we’re most excited about is multi-perspective validation. Currently, when a subscriber requests a certificate, we validate domain control from a single network perspective. This is standard practice for CAs.

I wonder how many other CAs do this as well? The third sentence suggests few.
You go to the App Store (logical place to look), tap your profile pic (a standard way of communicating "my account"), and tap your name in the menu. You'll arrive at the Account Settings page which has an obviously labeled Subscriptions button. Once there, subscriptions are neatly sorted into active and expired. Clicking on a subscription instantly shows you all options, you can change among them and get a full prorated refund for time on the old plan. You can cancel with ONE tap (and a confirmation)--cancelling does not interfere with what you've already paid for, and it tells you exactly what date you've paid through. All auth is by Touch/Face ID.

I've never seen a simpler and more straightforward billing UX as Apple's.
Maybe context should be taken into account?

I have no problems with people calling themselves doctors (whether fake or real) unless they are doing so in order to gain a certain advantage (trust, credibility, etc).

I only have a problem when someone pretends to be a doctor if they're trying to profit or harm people in some way, by for example making medication or similar.
Yes, an overly broad law about the use of the title "engineer," the outcome of this will be laws updated to use the term "professional engineer" and the scope refocused on commercial context. (as in: You can't claim to be a structural engineer to get a gig...)
Patreon has a per-accomplishment tier, used by (e.g.) the "Pepper and Carrot" webcomic[1] to fund each page individually. You might consider that model for features...

[1] https://www.peppercarrot.com (highly recommended if your tolerance for cute/silly is high :-)

Oh, and the author's patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/davidrevoy
I'm putting my chips on them using the same word we do in the US: conductors? Or is that the other fella in the train
Airlines can’t develop airplanes in the United States.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_scandal
And it makes iTunes gift cards really nice when they can be used to pay for anything under the sun, as long as it has an iOS app.
Not exactly sure. I just know about this:

http://www.peo.on.ca/index.php?ci_id=1824&la_id=1#software
It’s just job security for the people who have already gone into debt / a way to keep the supply of specialized workers low. For example, the AMA limits the amount of doctors able to graduate from the US so much we are constantly required to allow foreign doctors to immigrate to meet our actual needs

And doctors usually work very long hours too, suggesting there is still a shortage even with the immigration. But, I guess this keeps salaries high
That may be the most "engineer" thing I've read in a while. :-)

I wouldn't be surprised if he uncovered something involving the timing of traffic lights that the state engineers knew about, but never did anything about it since it increased the chance of driver violations ever so slightly, and, therefore, more sources of revenue.

It's not cynical if it's true, you know.
That's why it's paid: I've tediously worked out all the kinks over months and months of work. Obviously no software can be guaranteed to be bug-free, but I'm the #1 user of Autumn and I have gotten rid of every single bug I could find and polished every single corner-case and sped up every operation. I generally avoid making bold claims, but I'm confident this is the smoothest, fastest, and most fun window manager for macOS as of 2019.
As a licensed professional engineer, I find the effort exerted by various state and provincial licensing bodies to regulate the use of the term 'engineer' a bit tiresome. Yes, it's important to regulate the practice of engineering, but unlike some other types of professionals engineers rarely if ever offer their services to Joe Public. It's not like we have guys putting up billboards on the side of the highway advertising their services as an engineer.

In every context where the services of a PE / PEng (Canada) are truly required, no one will be relying on that person's email signature or business card, they will be asking for the relevant documents to be signed and sealed.

Licensing boards would do well to devote more effort to regulating large engineering firms which often play fast and loose with the rules, hiring cheaper, unlicensed people to do most of their work and then have one or two PEs seal all of it with minimal review.
Why aren't there similar stories of people throwing rocks at Tesla vehicles?

Tesla vehicles are owned by individuals not a big SV company.

Plus, Tesla isn't currently a technology shift that will put a lot of people out of work and their self-driving is often touted in the media as not being actual self-driving and seems to only get the occupant of the cars killed so far. If a Tesla takes out a kid on the street you might see a change.
Yes actually. He did his residency under the esteemed Dr. Pepper at Mt. Sinai
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There's really nothing new here.
I also assume HN fokes know the Luddites got fucked.

So what's the point?

People getting fucked will fight back but you have to fuck people to move forward?

It is what you need to do I guess but I'm not so sure it's what I want society to believe and follow through.

Do you want advertising exec's to fuck people over, do you need great ad's at the expense of people?

But I do want medical people to fuck people over, we need better medicine. Complicated.
There is a very famous legal case dubbed “Dr. Feelgood”.

The guy would approach women in apartment parking lots, tell them they have a disease and he could “cure” them with sex, because he has been injected with the cure. He successfully convinced and had sex with multiple women, and he actually charged them $750 to boot.

As you might expect one of the charges was fraud...turns out men’s right to lie to women’s out being a doctor to get them into bed is constitutionally protected free speech.
I read the comments on the article, and looks like some of his colleagues posted on there saying he had embarrassed some good ol' boys, and the good Lord knows we can't have that, now can we?
Anything without engineering. Engineers in Ontario have a licencing like becoming a lawyer or doctor. All people studying in Canada are in programs that are accredited by the CAEB.
My company has been quite successful building a network of advisors and mentors (in our niche). If you want to chat, feel free to email me at liamcardenas [at] gmail

I always like connecting with fellow entrepreneurs. I also might be able to connect you with a non-tech co-founder... if its the right fit. There are lot of them out there that /wish/ they could partner with an engineer!
On the Visual C++ team, we use natvis to show FE AST nodes. It works pretty well with a couple hours of investment in writing the natvis.
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I think you underestimate the knowledge and training to do dental work safely.
I think you got some bad boots. To your example of cars, you've proved the theory; you bought a car at four times the price of the beater and it will last far longer than 4X and will do so more cheaply and reliably.
Chiropractors already leverage the powerful marketing of a Dr. prefix without having a PhD in medicine.

It's incredibly annoying. I have relatives who have become completely swindled by this crap and regurgitate unscientific nonsense that their "Dr. Salesman" chiropractor prescribed. Blood-type diets, essential oils, overpriced transparencies to hide in rooms for their calming energy. Whenever I visit home I have to listen to this shit littered with Dr. as if it's legitimizing.

FML
PG&E intended to kill?
No, this is describing the PM interview process. Source: I’m in this org at the company and have interviewed candidates under this model
I was also quite inspired by Slate. Unfortunately there hasn't been any activity with it for about 5 years or so. It's great you're picking up the mantel and running with it, because the essential idea is great!

I was interested in Slate because I was looking for a good way to implement pie menus for a Mac window manager. And I'd already implemented pie menus for HTML, so I wanted to come up with a way to use that code (and any other html user interface or graphics too, of course) in the window manager.

About 5 years ago I opened this issue, describing an experiment I did making the web browser in a topmost window with a transparent background to implement user interface overlays scripted in HTML.

WebView window for HTML user interfaces like pie menus to Slate. #322:
https://github.com/jigish/slate/issues/322

Slate used a hidden WebView for its scripting engine. So I made it un-hidden and float on top of all the other windows, and was easily able to use it to draw any kind of user interface stuff on top of all the other Mac windows. And I could track the position of windows and draw a little clickable tab next to or on top of the window title bar, that you could click on to pop up a pie menu.

It actually worked! But I didn't take it much further, because I never got any feedback on the issue I opened, so gave up on using Slate itself, and never got around to starting my own JavaScript window manager myself (like you did!). I opened my issue in June 2013, but the last commit was Feb 2013, so development must have stopped by then.

But I wrote up a description of my ideas about "aQuery" (like jQuery, for accessibility), and bounced the idea off of some people who are into accessibility and user interface design, and learned about Morgan Dixon's work on Prefab, something you should definitely check out if you're developing a window manager.

https://donhopkins.com/mediawiki/index.php/AQuery

Here's an HN posting that describes Morgan Dixon's "Prefab" -- imagine how powerful a window manager would be if it could do all that stuff, fully programmable from JavaScript, in combination with full access to the Accessibility APIs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520967

Morgan Dixon's work is truly breathtaking and eye opening, and I would love for that to be a core part of a scriptable hybrid Screen Scraping / Accessibility API approach.

Screen scraping techniques are very powerful, but have limitations. Accessibility APIs are very powerful, but have different limitations. But using both approaches together, screencasting and re-composing visual elements, and tightly integrating it with JavaScript, enables a much wider and interesting range of possibilities.

Think of it like augmented reality for virtualizing desktop user interfaces. The beauty of Morgan's Prefab is how it works across different platforms and web browsers, over virtual desktops, and how it can control, sample, measure, modify, augment and recompose guis of existing unmodified applications, even dynamic language translation, so they're much more accessible and easier to use!
> I've never seen a simpler and more straightforward billing UX as Apple's.

Settings -> <Name> -> Subscriptions
> I do think it would be deceptive for a politician to claim to be an engineer if they hadn’t done any engineering

I agree, but this is an argument for newspapers, magazines, and websites to make, not for the state licensing board. Regulating the speech of politicians campaiging for office undermines the democratic process, as it allows those in power to control the speech of those with less power trying to unseat them.
That doesn't make it any harder to grow the economy further.

Nonsense. Economic growth depends on a complex web of law, culture and resources. Large economies are systematically harder to grow than smaller ones. It's not simply a matter of adding people. It is in fact harder for the US to grow than France, the fact that it actually happens doesn't negate that reality. Remember, the fundamental argument you're making is that California operates under a handicap because of its taxes and regulations. It should be laboring under both that burden and the additional inertia that comes from a larger economy. I think its growth (not to mention the historical success of the rest of the industrialized world, virtually all of it more socialized than the US) belies the conservative old wive's tale that you can't have a stable, growing economy and maintain a sensible tax and regulatory environment at the same time.
Sports and games have strong cultural connections. Primes, not so much.

(And yes, I'm very much aware that this isn't serious.)
> putting you into a caloric deficit

No? I still eat the same amount of calories (~3000 calories a day, I'm a male who works put regularly). There are more than enough non-carb sources to get calories from (lean meats (chicken breast, turkey breast, pork), sea food, avocado, nuts)
That’s just an anecdatum. I’ve spent a fraction of that on my 20-year ICE.
I don’t believe this is correct on iOS and it isn’t correct on the Apple TV. In iOS you need to go to

Settings -> iTunes & App Store -> tap on your Apple ID at the top of the screen -> tap on view Apple ID -> scroll to subscriptions and tap on that

It’s not obvious or intuitive in my opinion.
> Employees will deal with not liking everybody. Money and calm managers will do the trick.

Woah. That's the money quote for me.

Now that you mention it, we haven't had calm managers in engineering in a while. The recent managers were always extremely angry or anxious, and always afraid not to make progress or making mistakes. I believe those fears trickled-down to the rest of the team, changing the whole group personality.

Money is not really a problem (we just had another seed round), but we lack calm managers, indeed.

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> On the other hand, complaints about not having a minimum level of respect in the workplace (complaints about sexual harassment and racism) are a huge problem.

> Employees leave immediately when they feel they aren't getting the basic level of respect required by law in the workplace (and sometimes file expensive lawsuits).

Sorry for not being clear. The complaints of sexual harassment and racism were dealt with appropriately. HR dealt with the offender by firing him and nobody was surprised.

However, I wonder if you're also talking about rage outbursts, screaming during work hours and inappropriate e-mails. Because this is the kind of thing HR (and the rest of the company) is having trouble dealing with.
App Store revenue would seem to disagree with you on this.
I don’t think that’s what is happening here. The suit seems to be predicated on him calling himself an engineer