skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think meritocracy is the wrong phrasing for all of that though. Basically it boils down to there being slightly different standards around formal education than might be expected in some other career paths. I also think a lot of that is a perceived difference in standards and I've not seen any actual evidence that software engineering as a career field is genuinely more accessible to people without formal qualifications. Even though I believe that to be the case as well.

There of course are still standards and lots of disagreement on whether they are merit based (e.g. whiteboarding interviews) and evidence that women and other minorities are systematically excluded in the whole, which is clearly not merit based.

Further whilst I think many of us could define what merit means for any particular job or find consensus in a group making that decision. I still expect there would be large differences between definitions and methods of selection.
Only for small stuff, if you have a 100k lines project you are absolutely unable to maintain it while staying sane.
Fascinating backstory of the periodic table which is about to turn 150 years old
I am considering revising my opinion about uninformed choices.

Mostly, there's a whole bunch of stuff to know. I think i'm on board for things that are transparent and trustworthy. Where did this egg come from? how was the hen cared for? It would be super sweet if the history of every object i interact with (or consider purchasing) was available in a tamper proof way.

So, if your argument is, i can get source for whatever and put it on my phone, i am 100% on board.

But that's a pretty big ask. generally my only option is to rely on the supplier, and whatever regulations/inspections they're subject to.

The other thing that sorta ticks me off is, this is Facebook and Google. This isn't some 419 scam. These are real, grown up businesses that chose to ask children to do these things.

children should be informed, children should be educated. but, uh, how high of a standard do you want to hold a 14 year old to?

If they're willing to download and compile the source, and install the software, ok. i think i'm on board. A one click (oh by the way we're activating the mic when you have your first kiss) install is, unseemly. it's gross.

Taking candy from a baby is easy, but despicable.

I don't mean this to be a THINK OF THE CHILDREN post.

it's just as despicable to manipulate adults like that. children just put a special emotional point on the argument.

feel free to throw all that out and tell me why it's ok to ask a middle aged person that has about 15 free minutes a week to research why this app is 'safe'.
Looks nice and I like the concepts couple of on-boarding notes on IOS:

- Sign up wasn't super clear that I had successfully registered and I needed to login after I had entered my registration credentials.

- Loading progress (loading awesomeness) took a long while forced a restart in the end

- Enrolling on a course requires content to load but the content itself looks out of place compared to the rest of the look and feel

- Content selection looks great but would it be better to offer a subset based on a bit of an on-boarding walk through?
Not saying you are wrong, but I think your examples are all a bit interesting (in a good way):

Misspelling a key while encoding to JSON: In a system with JSON in it, the JSON part of the system I would consider to be a part with dynamic types. So, that errors can be introduced in a part of the system that is using something resembling dynamic types can be seen as the result of moving away from static types.

Adding two values where you should have subtracted: In general, this can't be detected by static typing, but there are also examples where it can (for example - try adding two pointers in C - this is a type error because only subtraction is supported)

Forgetting to log an error: Personally, I don't see this as practical at the moment, but if the popularity of rust means that linear typing because a bit more "normal" to people, then having errors where it is a type error to not use them is a possibility.

Personally, I'm a believer in using languages with simple static type systems, but pretending they have fancier type systems by the way of comments and asserts. Sure, a compiler can't check the invariant you mentioned in your comment, but with the language tech we have at the moment (and I would guess for the foreseeable future) a typical human can't understand a moderately complicated invariant that a compiler can check.
At least at one point, Nielsen were getting their stats by paying people to install their iOS monitoring app using an enterprise developer certificate: http://www.arbitron.com/research/installhelp/install_ios9_en... Including minors as young as 13 with parental consent: http://www.arbitron.com/research/faq/iBoard_faq_en.pdf
I appreciate your completely logical question.

The short answer is: for the same reason somebody would want to shoot ICBMs at enemy population centers.

The longer answer as I understand it: after WWII both USA and USSR invested incredible amount of resources in bid to achieve supremacy or at least maintain parity with the other. During that race anything that achieved results was on the table and both sides did funky stuff to surprise enemy, all the time.

Space race was viewed as a cover up story for advanced rocket and surveillence research.

Given the amount of resources and the current situation I think it was natural for russians to think there is something else going on with Space Shuttle. We know the dimensions of Shuttle bay and its capabilities were dictated by military requirements so it definitely isn't out of question. It would certainly be completely stupid for Russians not not assume the worst because in that kind of race the one that is not prepared looses.

Russians are same people as Americans. They have proven many times they are unwilling to attack USA, thanks to the balance of power and multitude of people who prevailed in difficult situations.

That doesn't mean they will not use any dirty trick to get advantage but using dirty tricks in this game is a legitimate way to maintain parity which is the objective of the game.
Ordering the Elements – Essay on the Periodic Table
Oh, I'm sorry. I read into the story when it was more about things like "there was no music playing, although I wrote there was music and I didn't meet XY at that exact day". Didn't deeply look into it afterwards anymore. Thanks for pointing me to this, will read into it again.
Mainly because most governments around the globe have the monopoly of public force, creating the perfect ground for arbitrary decisions. Its not black and white, by those defaults seems accurate.
I don't fully understand the process of creating 3D video from 2D slices. Is that some sort of holographic procedure?

Presumably such a video could also easily be computed from CAD models, right?
PWA Progress in iOS 12.2 Beta 1
The RCU API, 2019 Edition
I thought the same when I clicked on the link with hopes high...
Related: https://twitter.com/klujypop/status/1018217609010012160?lang...

I see two modes to this. On factual matters (flat Earth, anti-vaxxers, chemtrails), I fully support the "figure it out and print/publish only the truth".

In opinion matters (how much tax should the poor/middle/rich pay, should public higher education be free/cheaper, should we implement UBI, etc), I'm far more interested in hearing from both/all sides, even at risk of some of the fringe viewpoints getting more airtime than currently.

"News" is not the simple reporting of facts, probably never was, and inherent in even the apparent reporting of facts is an interpretation of them (if nothing else by virtue of the facts you select to report upon and then emphasis you give them).
It still is, if you watch only the BBC in the UK.

Of course, people still moan about “being forced to pay for it”, even when you tell them how to legally stop paying for it.
Meritocracy all the things!
The first US Sanctions against South Africa took into effect in 1986, 5 years later the Apartheid system was ended.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_A...
tl;dr- They're arguing that there's little point to building a new, larger particle collider to succeed the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) because, while there are hypotheses that such a new collider could falsify, those hypotheses aren't sufficiently motivated to be worth falsifying.
The Larabee were to have 48 Pentium cores, each with their own L2 cache.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)
In some industries, you may get those levels of CPC on a high value web property, but a parked/error/empty domain will not be valued by a reputed ad network in the same way as an Alexa Top 10000 website would, the CPC/CPM will not even be close.
Show HN: Declarative Async State Handling for React
CBC head warns Netflix poses cultural threat to Canada
I can have a vote, but government will still force me to pay tributes at gunpoint. On the other hand, im not forced to buy most of private goods. At the end, the evil organizations are those that became monopolies, no matter if it is public or private.
> I've never had a cab driver phone me to ask where I'm going then not show. Uber have done this twice.

They do that in the UK a lot because they don't like the ride, so they cancel. When they call me I always act like I cannot hear them (which is often the case) and then they always turn up. I don't think they are supposed to know where you are going before they arrive.
Calling people names is one thing. But when you have the collective power to turn people into such pariahs that they can't even get a job anymore, you're playing with a very dangerous, and readily abuseable power.

And unfortunately, this is how it always goes. A group, heady on their newfound power, decides to take it a little further, and then a little further, dialing back the threshold to provoke their righteous fury.

And this is why anti-vigilante laws exist.
I plead guilty to commenting without reading. Thank you for the gentle reminder!
> Isn’t that exactly what the gig economy does?

No. Inequality is increasing every year.

> What would Uber drivers be doing if uber ceased to exist?

Depends on the reason for Uber ceasing to exist. If Uber went bankrupt, they would probably be riding a bike to deliver food in big cities or being micromanaged by computer programs for 12 hours at a time in some warehouse, being cogs in a machine that provides outstanding customer service to those lucky enough to be able to live in less dystopic conditions.

In a scenario where big companies and rich people are finally forced to pay their taxes and respect human rights, they might be applying for stable jobs as the baby boomers once did, or taking advantage of grants (that would become possible because of said taxation) to further their education. They might be engaged in something meaningful that improves our collective condition, instead of helping make some of us a bit more comfortable while we deplete our natural resources and destroy our own habitat.
In that case it's the job of the journalist to keep the battle of facts going until one side falls silent or into denial rambling.
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As useless as the bible might seem otherwise, from a linguistic point of view it is may be the most valuable document in the world.

It is _the_ standard corpus for many languages going back 2000 years. The actual content becomes secondary.
Amazon pulls products in India
Intriguing. Barely a mention (buried and oblique) that there are different weather models, and almost no discussion about relative accuracy or the reasons for the difference.
Especially contrasting with the last paragraph being explicitly "Rah rah America" with the fact that the US NWS' weather models are less accurate than the European ones (hurricane Sandy was a huge wake-up call)
Ask HN: Machine Learning freelancers, what do you do?
A question for the freelancers and small consultancies; what did you see as the main use cases for ML freelancers in 2018. What will it be in 2019?
You are not an “ex” felon until you have served our time. These people are currently just “criminals”.

I’m perfectly willing to give Weinstein and Cosby another chance once they have served their time.
“We noticed you bought a gravestone for your mother. Your mother‘s birthday is coming up soon, would you like to buy her a box of chocolates?”
Is this 2011? How is this news?
Find bugs from Mobile apps in production by tracking functions
An approach to keep an eye on functions in an app. This setup will inform developers when a function in an app fails in production. Data points like function parameters, return value, delay in execution etc will help a developer figure out the cause of failure fast. The setup can be implemented by using the SDK called Finotes.
> it allowed some people to say they don't read plebeian BDs, they read romans graphiques

I don't know, that's not the way I see it personally. I see roman graphiques as more experimental concerning the narration, art, even how the actual book is produced (experimenting with different type of paper, different format) where traditionnal bandes dessinées have more strict codes they follow. So yes it can feel a bit more serious in some way but you also find weird and funny things.
Has the application published? Would you mind putting the link here? I'd like to read it.
I thought about this in the wake of the BP Deepwater oil spill. How exactly can I choose to avoid interacting with any company that produces a fungible commodity (e.g BP, Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto)?

I can stop visiting BP branded gas stations but that has nothing to do with where the oil/gasoline actually comes from.
Learn how from this blog
https://www.blog.finotes.com/g/why-is-function-tracking-the-...
Then only run a photo if it helps explain the facts, otherwise who needs it?

If the photo supports the central truth of the piece then run it, otherwise you’re undermining yourself.
The golden age of Belgo-French comic artists and authors may have been 1960-1990, at least all my favourite series are from this time. They are incredible to this day and always a pleasure to reread. Like Yoko Tsuno by Leloup, Gaston by Franquin, Spirou & Fantasio (esp. the books my Tome and Janry), Valerian and Veronique by Mézières and Christin, Asterix and Obelix, and many more. I'm pretty content that for the length of my childhood, I could read through an entire treasure trove of works that already existed, and wait more the latest ones. Except for the Disney Duck universe, all the other American comic books look very much subpar in quality in direct comparison, regardless of whether in print or as movies, esp. the super hero ones.

Sad to see the industry turn this way.
That's a 2009 study, so more like every time you open your flip phone.
Correct it should stop, fake news always wastes the public time, this is the only publicity stunts for getting attention.
They could probably 3d print multiple parts inside the liquid simultaneously.

Then it becomes a "fill the cylinder" optimization problem.
Well I don't think most writers of "more serious books" can make a living from that either.
Are there private firms that don't make arbitrary decisions?
> Buck Danny

Now that is a title I haven't heard mentioned in a long time.
>Maybe the art form is taken seriously, yet over half of the comic books, authors cannot make a decent living off this profession in France today.

That's not surprising to me, many artists don't get paid a decent living wage for their work (i.e. musicians, painters, video creators, etc). It's an unfortunate reality of going solo and trying to start a sustainable business.
Yes, Dussman has some good things, the small English store they have in the back is my default go-to place :)
I am pretty sure bandes dessinées comes from "comic strips". Or it's the other way around.
NYT hired a person that is openly racist and tried to turn long form story about a Chinese woman in tech into family drama clickbait that risked making that woman get killed by the government.

NYT can whine all they want, but until they stop producing fake news themselves no reason to pay... If all papers produce such low quality biased content, I prefer the free ones, at least there is more honesty there about what I am getting for what I pay for.
They do have the freedom to opt out, they can buy and Android phone or Windows laptop.
IMO , focus on the project based books. I think this next decade will only see more self educated and meritocratically qualified folks who actively seek out accessible material akin in approach to how they learnt to programme.

IMO, focus on where the industry is going:

1. Cloud infra

2. ML.

3. SPAs

4. IoT
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Spread of 'zombie' disease killing starfish linked to rising ocean temperatures
Aziz Ansari did get a lot of sympathy, suffered far less than many others, and had all reputable news publishers take a pass on the accusations that were floating around.

For Weinstein, as the counterexample, it seems like the public accusation was necessary to get the regular wheels of justice to turn.

And to add the argument that is almost as tired as yours: “Innocent until proven guilty” is for punishment by those with the monopoly on violence, i. e. the state/the courts.

If I can not watch a comedian because I don’t find them funny (which is, unfortunately, not a crime), surely I can skip their HBO special because I believe their accusers?
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https://qiita.com/afcfinal2k19/items/cfdb53c89a6fa600828d

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Why would Microsoft be using a third parties DNS? It’s trivial to host it yourself.
Really. -3C is slippery roads and pavements. It matters if you walk or bike etc. But it is dry and feels warm.
+1C is humid and feels cold.
> That won't help, your purchases can still be linked to yourself with your credit card.

This doesn't seem to add much value on top of

>> Tip #2: They also link purchase records based on debit card account numbers. So pay cash.
> I think developers should be able to distribute outside of the app store

> I think it is great that they closely monitor what goes into the App Store

These two requests are not mutually exclusive
It doesn't work like that. It's like a match: put enough energy in, and it transitions to a new state. Put less than the activation energy in, and it doesn't. The energy you've put in will be lost as heat, but the resin is unchanged until it changes completely.
You might find this interesting from the author that coined the term meritocracy. In particular addressing point 2.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

"It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others."

I think you can see inklings of this in support for Trump, Brexit and distrust of elites the term for the new 'meritorious' social class.

Further merit in a job should extend well beyond technical skills.
I agree, that's an issue. Or if you wanted to stop funding exploitative mining but still wanted to own electronics, you might have a hard time. But I prefer the "you can often avoid interacting with them" option of private companies, to the "you cannot avoid them and are entirely at the mercy of their whims" option of government.

Not to say government isn't necessary - it is. But I don't understand why people treat it as virtuous, especially when those same people will express distrust in politicians. I suppose it's because government is the only way to legitimately force one's will on others.
Netflix price hike may spur growth in illegal password sharing
Apple Censorship
I'm submitting this because of these three paragraphs, some of which sounds like a dystopian nightmare to me.

Lab-grown meat:

> Even without the new sources of power great improvements are probable here. Microbes, which at present convert the nitrogen of the air into the proteins by which animals live, will be fostered and made to work under controlled conditions, just as yeast is now. New strains of microbes will be developed and made to do a great deal of our chemistry for us. With a greater knowledge of what are called hormones, i.e., the chemical messengers in our blood, it will be possible to control growth. We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium. Synthetic food will, of course, also be used in the future. Nor need the pleasures of the table be banished. That gloomy Utopia of tabloid meals need never be invaded. The new foods will be practically indistinguishable from the natural products from the outset, and any changes will be so gradual as to escape observation.
Breeding human beings

Underground farms so that cities can cover agricultural land:

> If the gigantic sources of power become available, food would be produced without recourse to sunlight. Vast cellars, in which artificial radiation is generated, may replace the cornfields and potato patches of the world. Parks and gardens will cover our pastures and plowed fields. When the time comes, there will be plenty of room for the cities to spread themselves.

Clones:

> But equally startling developments lie already just beyond our fingertips in the breeding of human beings and the shaping of human nature. It used to be said of scientific progress: "You have taught the dog more tricks; but you cannot alter the breed of the dog." But this is no longer true. A few years ago London was surprised by a play called "Rossum's Universal Robots." The production of such beings may well be possible within fifty years. They will not be made, but grown under glass. There seems little doubt that it will be possible to carry out the entire cycle which now leads to the birth of a child, in artificial surroundings. Interference with the mental development of such beings, expert suggestion and treatment in the earlier years, would produce beings specialized to thought or toil.
The Byzantine Generals' Lunch Problem
> Rumiko Takahashi won the Grand Prix, the festival’s lifetime achievement award. Takahashi began publishing manga comics in 1978 and her books, including “Inuyasha”, (...)

Interesting choice by the NYT. In my corner of the world, she was well known for writing "Ranma 1/2", while "Inuyasha" flew pretty much under the radar. I'm assuming it must have been the other way around in the US.
> If I can not watch a comedian because I don’t find them funny (which is, unfortunately, not a crime), surely I can skip their HBO special because I believe their accusers?

Of course. But TFA asks: does it follow that everyone should be deprived the HBO special?
> Bias: every single one of them have bias. The burden is on me to spot bias and think objectively. Why do I have to pay do that? At least present news as it is?

This has always been and will always be the case. There is no possibility for objectivity; unless they compile every fact about the universe and present them all to you (quite a dull read), there’s inherently an editing process and selection of facts the writer thinks is important. You will, and should, always have to think for yourself. Even if news were presented in as dry a fashion as possible, you’d still have to think (or what’s the point?). And the facts will always be incomplete.
weather.us as well, they even have the 50 different ensembles for the Euro. Very surprised it's free but I ain't complaining.