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> "Why schools should not have kangaroo courts. (sic)"

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kangaroo%20court

"kangaroo court (noun)

1: a mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted

2 : a court characterized by irresponsible, unauthorized, or irregular status or procedures"

There should not be any place that has kangaroo courts.
Same experience for me, made friends logging in at the same time of day after school but with StarCraft on battle.net
I skimmed the blog and setup pi-hole at home. So far so good. I was mildly irritated at the Docker fanboy tone but that's my own bias.
> OpenAI’s engineers opted not to have it read pixels from the game to retrieve information (like human players). It uses Dota 2’s bot API instead...

Congratulations to openai. But thank the ai gods, there is somewhere to move the goal post to.
>Is it legal for a journalist to assist another person in invading someone's home, for the purpose of obtaining information that could be published?

You clearly don't understand the concept of whistleblowing. And you did not read the article you're commenting on:

“Cracking the password would have allowed Manning to log onto the computers using a username that did not belong to her,” the indictment says. “Such a measure would have made it more difficult for investigators to identify Manning as the source of disclosures of classified information.” So the goal was to protect Manning’s identity, and Assange offered to assist.
Some sites detect you are ad blocking. Most just say “please disable your ad blocker” but some sites refuse to show content.
Facebook has a vendetta against the world's privacy, so I really don't mind if someone else has a vendetta against them.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, if you will.

Now I just wish their next article will "reveal" that Instagram and WhatsApp are both owned by FB too. I feel like a lot of people are unaware of that fact - even those that are openly anti-FB but are happily running WA & IG.
I'd be careful about saying they're "innate" to anything; the drive for technological management and domination of life is historically relatively new, it is an Enlightenment project that has carried its way through into popular ideology today. In a way, you're on the same track the authors are arguing for - the Enlightenment project, knowingly or not, started with the goal of dispelling any unknown or supposedly unexplained phenomena by shunning animism and personification - but in doing so the Enlightenment has fostered an ideology of domination of nature and whatever appears natural is natural - this means, among other things, repressive states, economic totality and using people as means to ends.
do you plan on supporting MongoDB or other NoSQL?
Considering how easy it is to run Javascript anywhere, even small inline statements interpreted dynamically, I can't think of a single reason to use this instead.
Some devs from my company just recently published https://jkcfg.github.io/, building on lessons learned from many years of configuring Kubernetes. Since we are discussing JS for config management.
At least XML has comments.
Maybe cause Facebook deserves it.
My parents actually made me create a facebook account when I was 14.

Before that I never actually used the internet for socializing, it was more a tool for fetching compilers and programming tutorials and occasionally doing research for school projects. For me at least the web was something you visited with a goal in mind, retrieved the information you wanted after a short search, and left. Perhaps that's typical of preteens.
At this point they just realize writing anything that roughly matches "Facebook is bad" is free clicks. It's a rare time when the NYT might have an enemy in common with so many people.
Good luck explaining Rome then. No fiat, lots and lots of war.
There are a lot of “shitbags” out there. Narcissists and sociopaths will end up joining your group. The truth is a code of conduct won’t stop them, because they will subvert the rules and manipulate people into defending them. Eventually they become the leaders of the group, forcing you to leave because your favorite hobby was taken over by normies. Code of conduct won’t change human power dynamics.
This sounds more wasteful to me. In terms of manpower and cost of commute.
Nonce is short for "number used only once"
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I think the brandance name came about when replhex records tried to re-brand the genera to get away from the smugness of calling your favored music 'intelligent.' That said, I definitely see the IDM label around more than Brandance.
So, you want foreign investment, but local control? Then, why, as an investor, invest?

Is there some way to guarantee a return, or are you just expecting investors to toss their money in the wind and hope for the best?
Big tech lobbying gutted a bill that would ban recording without consent
And yet, here we are talking about business instead of health.
I don't understand why people think JSON is a bad format for humans. The ability to write invalid JSON is very hard, and doing so will result in JSON parse errors. Take YAML on the other hand -- simply omitting a dash can result in unintended consequences that will parse just fine:

some_collection:
- first_entry

vs

some_collection:
first_entry

When you're staring at a non-trivial YAML file, it's very hard to spot these errors, and you'll potentially get some very weird behavior in whatever is depending on the config.
Heh. My family barely uses Facebook anymore. It just faded out of our day to day.
OK but what does this have to do with the original article other than the usual "Europe does it better". That's right, absolutely nothing.
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The article starts with a discussion about science graduates, but it’s primarily about the weak job market for college graduates in general.

Unfortunately, college degrees are not a sure fire way to get hired in today’s economy, but they are essentially needed, unless you plan on going into some trade.
I'd think that most such waste are still used efficiently. They may not be fit for the stresses of being shipped and stored the full distance to the supermarket and in your home, but much can still be used for animal feed and compost.
I don’t miss Facebook. I just weaned myself off Facebook about a week or two ago.

I realised that I needed to get off Facebook because it made me feel depressed. When I was on Facebook, I would look at the feed and become poignantly aware of how boring my life is. (I don’t travel. I don’t do any “fun” thing. I don’t go to parties.)

So one day I decide that I have had enough and I just uninstalled Facebook from my phone, closed all Facebook tabs in my browser sessions, and turned off all notifications (including the e-mail one that tries to drag you back in). The only notification that I leave enabled is account/security notifications. I haven’t outright deactivated/deleted my Facebook account because I may still need it someday for some stupid reason.

Anyway, as soon as I took those steps, I freed myself from the reminder of my misery. I’m not actually having any more fun, but at least I’m no longer constantly comparing my life with those of my “friends”.

So what about people who may want to reach me via Facebook? I’ve decided that if someone can or know only to reach me via Facebook, then they are not my real friend anyway and I don’t need them in my life.

Quit Facebook. It can be done and it should be done.
Nonce contains "once", which makes it easier to remember.
I would be surprised if that level of transparency exists.
I don't doubt that their anti-FB articles are probably fairly popular, but I still haven't seen the evidence that the general public's opinion of FB has changed significantly. The overwhelming narrative presented on HN and by the media is that FB is dying, in turmoil, and people are leaving it in droves, but I haven't observed any of that behavior and their continued growth in numerous markets completely contradicts that story.
When you are in your late twenties/thirties, having your parents join Facebook is actually great. It allows someone like me, who doesn't actively keep in touch with them, to share my happenings with them as well as stay up to date with theirs. There is nothing I share that I won't want them to view.

Agreed that when you are in your teens/early twenties, this is more of an issue which is why Snap etc. are more popular. But once users move to mid twenties/thirties, they go back to Facebook given the type of sharing it enables.
Remember, we're comparing with XML. There's no dates or numeric types in XML at all. This kind of proliferation is far worse in XML.

Sure, there are corner cases and limitations with JSON. I've never experienced that as a significant issue.

> Conversely, if you are writing in a language that has integral support for XML - say, XQuery, or even VB.NET...

I am not using any of that stuff, nor is there any reason for me to start using it.

> At the very least, if you control the format - which you have to, if you're in a position to decide what to use - then you can certainly stick to the subset of XML that is not anymore complex than JSON.

...or I can just use JSON.
Am I missing something or does the word "Glut" in the title here mean the opposite of what the article describes?
The point being missed is everyone contributes a percentage to the value of the house. I'm hard pressed to believe the real estate agent's contribution is 6% of that value.

Almost Noone else in the value creation work flow gets paid on percentage.

Why then real estate agents?
Having read a far amount about the mission prior to seeing the movie, I recall thinking at the time that the movie presented the various hacks that saved the mission as being inventions of the astronauts.
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Francis Ford Coppola said that “The Conversation” was his favourite Francis Ford Coppola movie.

Watching “Enemy of the State,” it is quite clear that Hackman’s character is a nod at The Conversation’s Harry Caul. He plays an ex-spook who is extremely paranoid about surveillance, which is the exact state Caul gets into at the end of The Conversation!
The job of a police is not to do bad things and most don't. The job of a hit person is to commit murder: exactly the bad kind of thing police prevent.
Because it's a business problem. The problem isn't that doctors don't know what to prescribe when you have an infection, it's that healthcare is so expensive that people can't afford it.
Yeah, the Assange case is going to tie everyone up in knots, because he's practically the definition of 'complicated'.

Everyone's going to take a different side, based on:

- He helped make available information genuinely in the public interest about US technically-not-quite war crimes.

- He's alleged to have committed sex crimes in Sweden

- He arguably delivered the presidency to Trump

Edit: it's kind of an ethical version of rock-paper-scissors - no matter what position you take, Assange himself has provided a reason not to take that position.
Why would I use this over, say, Jinja?

Do I really want imperative code in my config files? And if so, why not just use vanilla JS?
hey everybody. buy stuff. with money.
As a Northeasterner you probably never experienced the power of earthquakes or care about the lives and devastation it causes.
I’m happy to this posted on Hacker News. This book is one of my favorite books and ahead of its time.

The idea that stars could be living entities, that the universe itself could be a fully conscious living entity, and that the creation of the universe might be... (well I won’t spoil it for you!).

Please read this if you get a chance to!
So within those two weeks while you are “researching” how are you going to know real usage patterns with real users? Is your research going to perfectly predict where all of the bottlenecks and optimizations need to be in the entire system?

Are you going to perfectly predict the size and number of VMs that you need? The size of the database? Where your users are and the average latency? Are none of your developers going to mistakes that aren’t apparent until you are running at scale?

There is more to architecting a system than just “code”.
Yeah uhh I'm confused

Maybe everything really is opposite in Australia
oh wow thanks for sharing that! I had never heard of frank but i definitely have heard of jon ronson from his research and look into psychopathy. oh and the men who stare at goats, of course. anyway i must now add yet another line to my ledger of things i really should be looking into
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I don't think we're too far off from not needing to worry about social behavior in regard to reproduction honestly. We're fairly close to literal test tube babies. Once that point arrives, we just need to have our Soma nearby and society will continue to function properly.
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The title at smh.com.au is "Not enough jobs for science graduates challenges STEM hype" and the word "glut" doesn't exist on the page.

OTOH, the URL slug is 'glut-in-demand-for-science-graduates-challenges-stem-hype-20190327-p517zj'.

This suggests that in the intervening 10 or so minutes since the story was submitted to HN, someone in Australia noticed and fixed the problem in the title.
recent STEM hype aside, it has historically been very challenging to find work as a "straight" biologist, especially with only a BS, and if you can it's probably going to be scut-level underpaid lab or field work.

Part of the reason I think STEM is horseshit is that it is so broadly defined as to be without meaning. You just can't reasonably talk about something as one labor market if it includes zookeepers, pharmaceutical chemists, medical doctors, facebook engineers, economists, and advertiser...er, data scientists.
I don't think the transcript of the descent is plausible - no mention of the problem with the parachutes?
On the other hand, not being tracked by the NYT is easy - just don't visit their website. As far as I know, unlike some other company (hint hint) they don't go around asking their users/subscribers to hand over their contacts list.
Not as bad as YAML isn’t much of an endorsement.
>Rolodex of friends, with reminders from the ones who actually use it.

Check out personal CRMs out there. They are still in their infancy, but already usable.
So lets just not bother with anything and give it all up to assholes cause they are just going to win anyway? A code of conduct made not be able to curb the absolute worst humans - who I think are pretty rare, but it can definitely get those that go slightly out of line and are open to reason and empathy.
FB’s business model is essentially putting ads next to your family photos.
So what’s the advantage of running the docket setup of Pi hole versus the normal Pi install?
I have 4 Facebook accounts... I don't miss Facebook.
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HSA contributions do not have to be deducted from you paycheck and you don't have to use the provider that your employer has selected.
The title is a bit confusing as the article is about a glut in supply of science graduates and a dearth in job opportunities (in Australia at least), also the anecdote about the journalism student was not germane at all.

I tried finding info on job opportunities but came up short - could only find data on worldwide STEM graduates https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/02/02/the-co...
and STEM job info about the USA:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-job...
TLDR - vast majority of STEM jobs in USA are computer related and India/China/USA far outstrip other countries in producing STEM graduates. Whoever advised those Australian students to get non computer related degrees did them a disservice, if they did not forewarn them of the job market.
Just because something is minor does not mean it isn't urgent or best tended to sooner rather than later. Strangely enough, those of us with universal health care don't make it a hobby to go to the doctor's office because it is "free" at point of use. We only go when necessary, we just don't have to weigh the possible trade off of food, shelter or savings in the equation that turns minor, easily treated conditions into major, life threatening ones.
Why bother? There are already known ways to detect commercial breaks like so many milliseconds of black screen, and such. Also, there are very few commercials on television at any time, including local ads. You could just fingerprint them.
Interesting. I wonder how many foreign military outposts the US has within its borders.
It’s a lot harder to do when it will bankrupt your local car companies.
Are you familiar with how feudal economies worked? People were restricted in feudal economies in a way that we would find horrifying. Peasants were legally bound to the land they were born on. As in, they were not allowed to leave unless their the lord they were bound to approved.

The industrial revolution was a weird time. Our ability to make stuff vastly outstripped population growth. And there was an entire continent (North America) that excess Europeans and Americans could move to. That process is done. Now we’re back to the perpetual grind.
To add to that, 5 years ago there was an article titled "The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage" by Michael S. Teitelbaum at The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/the-my...

> Everyone knows that the United States has long suffered from widespread shortages in its science and engineering workforce, and that if continued these shortages will cause it to fall behind its major economic competitors. ... Such claims are now well established as conventional wisdom. There is almost no debate in the mainstream. ... The truth is that there is little credible evidence of the claimed widespread shortages in the U.S. science and engineering workforce. ... No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher

122 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451835 .
Yes - I have seen at some jobs what a horror "configuration files" can be if you let people add programmability into them.

Many years ago I worked at a job that made an XML tag-based language that was turing complete with the intent of it making their configuration "smarter". It ended up making the entire project much more difficult to debug, trace through, and even understand at all.
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The movie Frank is a fictionalized version of the character (written by Ronson), and there was a documentary about the guy as well:
http://www.beingfrankmovie.com/info.html
I watched the movie and was shocked to learn the movie was based on a real life phenomena.
There is a companion talk by the paper's author in Youtube: https://youtu.be/E7w-gfFKPf8
Can you seriously not see how tremendously high the default rate would be on a loan to someone who can’t wait the few days until their next payday? Or how high it would be if they’re using that loan to pay off another payday loan? If you could provide those loans for cheaper, there would be competitors hoovering up the free money.
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Facebook is enhancing my family’s joy. My family is spread across the world. Because of Facebook, I know what my sister in law is up to, and have things to talk about with her when I see her. I know what my nieces do over the summer at the cabin, and have a connection to them.

These hit pieces are ridiculous. If you don’t like Facebook, don’t use it.
> Movements like the Yellow Vest protesters in France, for instance, have a bigger and easier target to attack because the country’s economic and political power is concentrated in Paris.

In this case, wouldn't this be a feature of localisation of private and public elites? That is, it is easier for a grass-roots protest to take hold and target corruption in a centralized way?
It doesn't say "A woman behind", it says "THE woman behind". Big difference.
It would be a perfectly acceptable business model if it was just that.
If the Founders' Vision was to keep business and government separate, then why was New York City the capital of the US when George Washington was sworn in as president? It didn't last very long, but a lot of people wanted to keep it there. It was Thomas Jefferson that demanded it be moved to a "rural setting", which this article completely glosses over and tries to imply it was the general will.
Is 'Like' incl. 'Upvotes' etc. the most impactful feature on the web i.e in terms of influencing human behaviour?

Since 'Like' and its likes(pun intended) releases dopamine & the incentive keeps one addicted; it became the foundation of these social networks.

Unlike actual real relationships, positive feedback from these social networks gives instant gratification without strings attached(at-least seems like that), making them more preferable. It has become the social currency.

Incentives are necessary for retaining users, but hypothetically if all social networks decide to do away with 'Like' system for the sake of mental health, what can be the alternative?
> Seems like this is something machine learning would be very good at, given that commercial visuals look very different from “real” show visuals

This feature was in MythTV literally 10+ years ago. Commercials are very easy to detect using simple methods [0].

[0] https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commercial_detection
> And to anyone who says “I have nothing to hide”

To anyone saying that, they need to stop quoting Nazi propaganda. Term is coined by (but not originating from) Goebbels.

Note: The origin is from a fictional dystopia.
Usually when people complain about JSON they offer YAML as a better option. This article complains about JSON and offers no alternative at all -- what would you suggest?
Thanks for your response. I hope NAB gets better again.
I take it that diesels aren’t required to have DEF to reduce the NOx emissions?
if a law was passed requiring procedures to advertise the price like restaurants, it would solve most of the pricing issue. insurance systems obscure the price so the system doesn’t work.
Just jam the other frequencies.
The arms in a CafeX are $25k.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/05/08/this-25000-robot-wants-t...
Same for me. I've kept my account, but I only log in once every few months or so when I feel really bored.

Whenever I do, it only takes minutes before I start to feel bad, mostly for the same reasons you do. I then realise that literally just sitting in your chair, staring at a monitor that is turned off, is a better use of your time than going to Facebook.
Unable to work, buy, sell, or travel, due to a bureaucracy error. Ignoring for the moment the error itself, that's a truly scary amount of control.
They aren't allowed to drink at 18. In many other ways the law infantalizes them including the Title X tribunals universities are required to have. When the combination of energy drinks and liquor was banned in WA state it was done so on the theory they were taking advantage of "kids". "kids" who were the legal drinking age of 21. [1]

The path to adulthood is an extended progression in modern times and does not end at the age of 18. The law has many more milestones before full rights are provided.

[1] "They're marketed to kids by using fruit flavors that mask the taste of alcohol" https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-oct-27-la-na-bl...
Nothing in the article quotes anything directly from the founders about geographical separation of economic centers and political capitals. Lobbying has already corrupted Washington. There is no logical argument in the article. It seems to be be anti-Amazon propaganda.
yes, fixed. The original article did have bad headline.