skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "He then went back to school to pursue a master’s degree in comparative literature at the University of Colorado Boulder."

So:

* Get degree

* Struggle to find steady/career employment in a job market still rippling from a massive recession

* Decide the best ROI is to go back to school for a Master's in Comparative Literature

While I'm totally cognizant of the systematic and pervasive failures of the modern college lending system... I don't think the system is totally to blame for this one.

Four years of college AND working experience and you still can't make a basic CBA for how you spend your time?
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That's the thing though -- usually the physical requirements are drastically different. I'm not sure about fire departments, but in the US military the physical requirements for women are laughable compared to those for men.
I wonder if this is somehow similar to how PC clones reimplemented IBM PC's BIOS. Can this be used as a precedent in this case?
the software robots informing the humans will come for your repetitive job
Wow, it gets better! The police and the army are coiners now too?

This is comedy gold.
> You seem to be arguing that because we can’t make perfect judgements we are therefore condemned to always make arbitrary judgements based on bias

Not arbitrary, I'm not arguing that. I am arguing that education and intelligence isn't enough to combat biases. A lot of people commenting here are touting education and intelligence as some sort of bias reducing (or eliminating) tool, which it can be, but as I've said elsewhere I know plenty of educated intelligent people who are slaves to their biases. Some of these people gained their biases through education, and they discount their biases because they believe they are too intelligent to have biases.

What I think many people are missing here is that biases aren't something you educate away, they're something education helps you recognize and compensate for.

Also I note your use of the phrase"perfect judgments" here. Perfect how? For whom? Under what criteria? There's no such thing as a "perfect judgment" without framing it in a context (i.e. using a bias). One person's perfect, logically sound, rational judgment might not be so for another person.
I still don't see how in any way Qualcomm was responsible for or contributed to Blackberry's downfall. No doubt that Blackberry sent tons of licensing money to them, but that didn't seem to hold back their crazy growth rate. Neither did it seem to contribute to their downfall.
I think there should be a question of if the C-level needs or even has made recent searches on any of that email going back past 7 years.
Additionally, simply because there may be social pressure towards some trait or value does not mean this value is completely arbitrary. (ie, "another, better society could do away with trait X, if only they were better educated!") For an easy example, think of traits such as bravery, love, trust, or honesty. There's much social pressure towards these traits (at least within some small groups) but that's not to say that these traits are totally arbitrary, just that social pressure is one of the primary mechanisms by which these innate traits are enforced.
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I'm not sure if I understood you correctly as there are multiple ways one can short Bitcoin at the moment if they wish to. But in the end I think we all need to remember that any theory presented by anyone here would only serve as a hypothesis based on speculation. There's no way to prove it as nobody really knows what's going on except those key individuals involved.
pardon me if I'm a bit out of the loop, but my understanding was that Google planned on revoking all app access to SMS messages and call logs on Android as of the beginning of this year -- does this not apply to TrueCaller?
Popular opinion almost makes it seem like "writing well" (for human consumption) is almost the opposite of "writing good code" (for computers).

To be regarded as a great programmer, you need to know all the arcane details of a system, where those are the intricacies of a particular language or framework, or the small details of how a computer system works. It's the minutiae that counts.

With writing for humans, you need to have a very high level overview of things. You need to speak broadly and appeal to a common human understanding. The top level understanding is what matters.

Coding interviews reflect the change the industry is sensing and what this author puts well: the worst coding interviews are where they ask you about some small detail of a language or algorithm. It's a gotcha test. The better interviews ask you to show how you holistically approach a problem.
The aspect of this case that I don't understand is why, even if APIs are copyrightable, why Google would need a special license for the Android. If Java is available under the GPL, and Android is a derivative work but is also licensed under the GPL, then where's the problem?

Conversely, by Oracle's logic, any application that uses the Java API would be a derivative work (the method signatures are perfect copies), and thus the app would need to be either GPL itself or pay for a commercial license for Java. This, too, seems incompatible with existing practice (e.g., Apache's Java applications are licensed under its own open-source license which is more permissive and thus can't be a derivative work under the GPL.

What am I missing here?
Do you really want our senators, who usually old enough to remember hunting dinosaurs, writing these laws though? At least in court informed experts can be called. Congress only hears from experts if they so choose (surprise: they usually don't so choose)
> so I the time it would take for me to share it would be longer than to rewrite it in some hip language.

I'm reasonably sure the answer to your questions is yes.
Looks promising and is long overdue. This is along the lines of what Ethereum should have been from its inception. It probably would have avoided many of the highly publicized exploits.
Being 'gifted' can make you lazy, because you can be. It's a temptation for anyone above average. If you can coast and get praise, why kill yourself? Depends on your underlying personality I guess. This phenomenon is also why it's hard to progress a lot farther than your parents level: there's a diminishing level of praise for higher levels of achievement.
When Is Dead Actually Dead?
I think "being smart" like anything else, has diminishing return. It should be we teach children that you can be very smart, but without work ethic/motivation/passion to go alone, you may not go half as far as you would imagine.
Honest question. Do people still read blog posts these days? I feel like twitter has made me so lazy that I can hardly consume any long content. I hardly even read the articles posted in HN but do go through the comments since they are easily digestible. Is it just me?
That will work for low end drive by stuff. Anyone motivated will have a better bot. I was running one 10-12 years ago that was essentially a headless browser. It had a JavaScript runtime and a custom DOM. It could run jquery, prototype, ajax and just about everything else that was popular at the time. I even had a custom flash runtime in there for the jackass sites with the nav in flash.

These days you could just throw together a selenium script and call it a day.

This kind of stuff is fine for stopping comment spam because there are so many other opportunities out there that the spammers move on to an easier target. If you need to protect against a targeted attack then it’s a lot more difficult.
> especially on Assange's twitter feed, shortly after Trump was elected.

which was just a couple months after Assange stopped signing anything with his PGP key.
I'm an actual programmer and I consider API signatures copyrightable. I spend a significant amount of time as a lead developer laying out class structure and method names for a more junior developer to actually implement. APIs are clearly creative and not trivial work that should be protected.

I think copying an API in a compatibility layer should be protected as fair use, but I don't think you should be able to start your development by copying an API someone else created.
Cults are not new. The fascinating thing to me is that in many cases there is no single embodied leader or even founder. Instead the charismatic leader seems to be the cult itself with this being facilitated through a rapid iterative feedback loop via the Internet.

I think the best terminology for these might be Borg from Star Trek since they work like little Borg collectives. They develop their own little reality distortion field and then try to suck people in and "assimilate" them. Have you been "red pilled?"

I've wondered if parts of the chans (e.g. /pol/) and other anonymous forums with cult-like ideologies and cultures surrounding them aren't the first examples of hive minds. Unfortunately they're pretty dystopian hive minds with the dominant emotions being hate, shame, and fear and the dominant intellectual undercurrents being nihilism, cynicism, totalitarianism, etc.
> It installed a daemon that updates Edge even when the browser is closed.

They learned that trick from Google and Chrome; search for `com.google.keystone.agent.plist` -- they install a Launch Agent for you.
I know it's probably not the first time you've heard this, but moving just slightly out of Seattle (I'm assuming the family ties are pretty damn important, I know it's a huge part of why I'm still in Ontario, so no big moves) could have a huge impact. I recently moved in to my mother's house because I don't want to live the ramen life again while working at a startup. She was, in turn, able to afford this place because it's in Hamilton, ON and not Toronto.

To my eyes, it seems that high-minded zoning and planning (especially insidious nonsense like minimum house sizes, lawn setbacks for bungalows that would be enough for a five-storey building), and the mindset comes with, have made and kept housing extremely expensive in major cities in the U.S. and Canada. I think you can do a lot better outside of Seattle, with the main bottleneck being transport time (and possibly not being able to stay with the same company).

I know it's a cliché, but I think a lot of people will find that they like the slightly-less-exciting life in a second-tier city once they're there; I know I prefer being in Hamilton to being in Toronto in many ways. On the flip side, I know somebody who seems to really prefer living in Seattle despite working in Redmond. These are, of course, the more privileged thoughts that you can have about where you live.

P.S. if you reply and don't see anything pop up; I'm probably not just ignoring you. Hacker News has this health-promoting but annoying feature of rate limiting submissions for a given user. When I hit my limit (which is often), it often takes about four hours (or possibly more, dunno) to clear.
Will Millennials Be the First Generation to Stop Fearing Death?
It's a good bill iff it proves effective. I'm optimistic that it will, but that still remains to be seen.

(An ineffective bill can be worse than none at all, since it's existence may confuse people who believe they have protection when in reality the legislation is less effective than their perception of it.)
What motivated cloudflare to publish these blog posts? I'm not saying I don't like them I am just curious the logic to sharing this type of info and research?
GraphiQL Explorer 2.0: A power-user release
I agree, but I can't imagine a world where the internet works any different than currently in your scenario.

Eg, right now (or at least a few years ago) companies could basically do anything with your data. And they did. It's getting worse too, with advanced techniques on identifying individuals across website bounds, etc.

That is what is spawning these sorts of debates, laws, etc. So my question to you is while I agree that we have to assume malice (for ease of discussion), we can't actively allow or encourage malice right? So if we do nothing, do we just accept that they do who knows what with our data?

Ie, I think we mostly agree that what is going on right (with our data) now is bad. So don't we have to do something? What do you see as the right solution?
How Five Different Communities Mourn Their Dead
Its very difficult to block an extremely motivated and targeted attack. With things like this, you aren't trying to necessarily block a highly targeted attack. You mostly need to just ward off the majority of low effort bot spam and random internet trolls. Having extremely tight security can be expensive and/or difficult for most organizations.
>Doing the Russians' bidding by enabling their interference in the US presidential election

How specifically did he do this? Publishing 'Collateral Murder' embarrassed a lot of people in Washington and probably affected elections afterwards, yet I never heard anyone make these accusations back then. And this hysteria about Russia over 40k worth of Facebook ads and some twitter bots is outrageous, Facebook/Twitters policy of censoring conservatives likely has a much more significant effect on elections than those ads and bots ever could.

>openly stating his preference as to the result destroyed any possible credibility as a "journalist" and made him look very much like a Russian puppet.

The entirety of the corporate media openly stated their preference during the election as well, to put it lightly.
I think Elm have similar rules, the official code format tool is very opinionated.
Ask someone in the trades what they think of their kids going into the trades. Everyone in those jobs are busting their ass so their kids don't have to take a job like that. Those jobs never pay enough and never pay enough compared to the amount of work involved.

Most jobs want cheap, reliable, and productive labor. And you can only get 2 of those. An employee that can hit all 3 is not sticking around if they can get paid better elsewhere. And that is why you see those unfulfilled help wanted signs.
Yeah, sure, the government spent millions to break up AT&T and the Baby Bells, then let AT&T get back into the local phone and Internet business by buying up companies left and right. Now AT&T is part of a nationwide duopoly with cable companies, and most US consumers have exactly 2 choices: either AT&T for non-cable or some other company for cable.

It's government's responsibility to foster competition to push back against companies wanting to limit it. Govt is doing a shitty job and gets an F.
Probably because it's both patently untrue and still informative in a way. It would be more precisely stated as "there aren't many atoms left between 5(nm) and 0". If my math is right, 5nm is only a width of about 25 silicon atoms.
//adds two numbers

int add(int a, int b);

Oracle is claiming nobody else is allowed to make an add() method with that signature.
> "capturing carbon is critical. Healthy land is vital in that fight."

The oceans represent something like 93% of carbon capture.
Safer coding is important, as are better semantics for state machine processing on chain, where a mistake can be really costly. So, yay.

On the other hand, three things make this hard for me to dig into and get a real opinion: no sample code, so I have no idea if I like the way the authors are going at it, no argument as to why this is not just a solidity extension, and the compiler seems to need java.

It’s my day job to track stuff like this, but I will probably pass until one of those three improves
For those who can't visualize things in their "minds eye" tools like this are helpful.
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I say it all the time: a significant fraction of my job is to read and write google documents. I’m either writing docs or I’m reading/commenting on docs someone else wrote.

Reading and writing are foundational skills needed in virtually every field. Especially especially especially at google.

/I work at google/
Cant remove the chains in your head, if the chains in your head prohibit you from removing those chains.
Google’s argument is that method declarations are not code. And since this case is about copyright the question is whether declarations like that are ideas that can be protected under copyright law.

Is math.abs with one parameter copyrightable? What about Math.abs?

If it was so cut and dry this case wouldn’t have dragged on
I wish that would make much of a difference, but likely there will just be a small paragraph under the main TOS with a big checkbox next to it, that almost no one will read and almost everyone will check.
The government could get rid of IBR, but it would be very difficult to do so retroactively. At that point, ordinary contract law principles come into play. The government’s freedom to end federal programs doesn’t free it from having to meet pre-existing contractual requirements. Even Trump’s plan and the new GOP bill only gets rid of loan forgiveness for new loans, and only 10-year public interest forgiveness program, not the 25-year forgiveness for everyone else.
or the elimination of leaded gasoline.
That seems silly. They are a technology for mapping from a relational database to a system based on objects. That's what an ORM is.

> Data Mapper: A layer of Mappers (473) that moves data between objects and a database...

(https://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/dataMapper.html)

Sounds like an ORM to me.

Some people try to distinguish between the "data mapper" pattern and the "active record" pattern (it's not just the name of the Rails library, it's a pattern... which the Rails library may or may not implement very well). Both are ORMs, because both are ways of mapping from an rdbms to an object system.

(Neither of which actually has to do with query DSL. We could imagine just taking the part of ActiveRecord that produces queries, but having it return simple hash/string literals. It wouldn't really be an "ORM" (except in the most technical sense that even hashes are objects in ruby), but it would still have the parts you don't like. The nature of query building is actually not related to 'data mapper' vs 'active record' -- you could have an instance of either in which you wrote raw SQL queries, or an instance of either which used the same non-SQL DSL)).

But even distinguishing between "data mapper" and "active record", in actual practice, I don't think there are two completely separate, distinct, and unified camps. I don't think these categories actually serve well to deliniate the ORMs we've got. Instead, there are a just a whole bunch of approaches, some more light weight than others, some more mature/reliable than others, some 'leakier' than others, differing on all sorts of additional dimensions. I agree that some ORMs are better than others -- and some may disagree on which these are -- I don't think saying "data mapper" is actually useful for understanding which these are.
What Google looked into licensing was considerably broader than the APIs, and included material that everyone agrees is copyrightable.

We don't learn anything from the fact that Google negotiated for a broad licence, decided not to take one, and used a clone which copies only the API definitions.

If API definitions aren't copyrightable then Google didn't do anything wrong. If they are then it did.

The idea that API definitions may not be copyrightable certainly isn't a wild theory that Google made up for this instance.
Ask HN: How do you handle, or are even aware of, GDPR-like China's Personal ISS?
Personal Information Security Specification. An English language summary is on China Law Blog: https://www.chinalawblog.com/2018/02/chinas-personal-information-security-specification-get-ready-for-may-1.html

That was a post from last year, when it went into action. In GDPR and Personal ISS (someone really should have thought of a better name) there are similar, and equivalent, separations of data collection, data retention, controller and user.

It maps, if not in order but in coverage similarly to GDPR.

I'm asking specifically for companies outside of China that may seek to handle personal information of customers in China.
Me too. As long as reducing feature size is possible, it'll never make sense to try anything really new. Nobody would have ever built a car if horses halved in price and doubled in performance every two years.
The law is the law. Wishing it were different doesn't make it so. Which means that yes, Compaq and other PC clone makers may have broken the law by reimplementing the PC BIOS. The BIOS API does not depend on named functions but rather on specific values appearing in CPU registers, so I'm not sure how copyright applies to that. Maybe a "structure, sequence, and organization" argument à la Whelan v. Jaslow.
“If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.”

— Joel Spolsky, In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...
Interesting observation. I didn't know Assange signed his tweets with a PGP key. What I find odd though is that he hadn't got a message out of the embassy through supporters such as Pamela Anderson that his twitter feed was compromised.
I disagree -- there are many situations in which your writing must display both a very detailed understanding of a system, AND a very detailed understanding of your audience.
Frankly, his moving to India is a net gain for the US.
At 22 years old I expect people with the resources and the mental faculties to attend a university to do the bare minimum and have no sympathy for those who refuse to do so.

I would never hire someone who didn't have the intelligence or initiative to look up basic information and apply it, regardless of whether they lucked into a degree. It isn't the professor's job to waste valuable education time spoon feeding you. If you can't read the document the professor provides to you and figure it out, then you're investing in a lost cause. THAT is not the university's fault, it's yours.
I don't identify as any of those D's. And, I'm not discounting your experiences with writing.

I wrote a book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920043027.do) and it was the hardest thing I ever did.

I love this quote from Thomas Mann: ""A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

Keep at it, even though it tears you to shreds. It's worth it. It tears everyone who does it to shreds. You aren't alone in the way you feel about writing and you can do it too.
If I had a manager send this to me, it would impress in my mind a comical and degrading image of them hunting and pecking for keys. Doesn’t conjure much respect in an industry where computers are the main tool, IMO.
> that this is a case of treatment amounting to psychological torture

I don't deny his symptoms, but I strongly deny that "his treatment" by others led to those symptoms.

His own decisions and actions, namely, to live in a cramped room for years, and not going to see a doctor, led to those.

Now, you may argue that he was right to do so. But it was by his own volition. Sweden would have given him first-class medical treatment and much better living conditions, even if he would have been put in a prison cell (which isn't too likely).