skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NO. They should have a good mental model of computing and they probably should learn tools that would aid them in data analysis (Excel is phenomenal for that). Apart from that, there is little benefit in knowing how to program in C# or Java or Python.
I was a paralegal a number of years back and, due to my experience as a coder, I was able to automate a bunch of my responsibilities. Much of the job of a paralegal (and some of the responsibilities of a lawyer) are things like data entry and records keeping that are trivially automated. One of my most popular tasks was to take data from Doc X in format A and move it to Doc Y in format B. Some string parsing (with human oversight) massively accelerated my productivity.

I wrote a short blurb about my experience a little while ago: http://www.cachestocaches.com/2016/2/how-we-teach-programmin...
Oh I suspect they could just parner with a food delivery service and tap into all those gig economy resources. May even do a uber like service for deliveries, as with the volume Amazon has. They have many options. Certainly the whole gig economy aspect will be one in which ticks many company accounts departments as avoids so many direct employee costs. It's like having a direct employee, but at your beck and call standby without any standby pay and the responsibility you would have with outsourcing. The deniability and responsibility you can avoid as a business over having a full time employee are immense. Which is an issue that is only slowly being addressed. Until then, I'd be supprised if Amazon does not go down this route. Maybe even partner up with Uber or Just Eat. Amazon and Burgers at the same time anybody?

I do hope gig economy workers are given some fair and equal rights sooner, been some improvements in some countries, but its modern slavery of our times in the way so many businesses deploy it.
Right - the actual answer here is that the people developing Linux weren't bored hobbyists in their basement at all, but employees of big corporations. (Perhaps employees for big corporations working remotely in their basement.) The development structure was different, in that you had employees from one corporation reviewing code from employees of another mailing lists full of people collectively deciding priorities, customers writing patches for their own needs, etc. And that was incomprehensible to people who expected traditional forms of software development; they couldn't conceive of anything other than what they knew or hobbyists in basements.

No one is saying that we don't need talented scientists writing and reviewing papers or organizing journals. The claim is that the structure of doing this through Elsevier doesn't make sense any more.
If you believe in Capitalism:

Step 1: Assign a cost for CO2 emissions.

Step 2: Let the market deal with the costs.

Step 3: Asses if the cost was at the right amount. Adjust if necessary and repeat.

If you don't believe in Capitalism:

Step 1: Change the governmental system to a system of your liking.

Step 2: Find a way in this new system to control what companies do. e.g. state planned economics, regulations, etc.
> Imprisoning people who have committed crimes

That's not what is being called into question. It's imprisoning someone for the express purpose of coercing testimony that smells here.
The FedEx ground franchisees in W Central Fla are a dangerous menace. My development has a 20mph speed limit routinely flaunted @ 40mph: Without exception (we have speed cameras to prove it). Beyond, bicyclists are no obstacle.

If they were employees and shared liability with FedEx these issues might not exist. But they do exist, and if Amazon can do no worse it'll be a wash for pedestrians and cyclists. At least in this part of Floriduh.
>Things like the psychology replication crisis

Have you actually read up on this, or are you just repeating something you read online to make it sound like you're academically in the know and are well versed in academic research processes?

Allow me to give you some reading to help give you a more reasonable view about this: https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/replication-controversy...

>Things like the sokal affair, or the infamous "feminist glaciology" incident.

This is only a sticking point for crazy conservative people because they purposefully or accidentally completely misunderstood what the paper was about. Conservative people already don't trust science as a whole since they have an extreme ideological motivation to not do so, so let's not pretend like it's really some defining moment for science as a whole.

And again, then narrative around this is just generally very dishonest, so it's pretty funny to see you make reference to it while waxing on about academic integrity: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/qa-author-feminist-g...
Even when someone does take a stand, juries almost never convict.
> everyone I've talked about it with now refuses to pick up any call from a number they don't recognize

This is true, and also burned me last weekend. My dog set off my alarm system and the phone identified ADT as "potential spam" so I didn't answer it. The police showed up at my house. Fixed by adding ADT to my contacts, but the distrust is real.
Your analogy to golf is completely missing the point. I don't need to play or even care about golf if the President does, but if he tweets something on twitter then the only way I can validate the source of truth is by using twitter. When these tweets can have major policy and economic impacts I think it's a whole lot more important than golf.
You can keep spamming the same links but it does only so much to solidfy your position.
It's interesting to me that as Amazon and Walmart vertically integrate shipping, FedEx and UPS haven't responded by integrating fulfillment and warehousing.

Actually, UPS does: https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/e-commerce/efulfillment.p...

"UPS eFulfillment combines the fast and reliable shipping consumers demand with the scalable inventory management your operation needs. We can store the products you sell and get them into your customers’ hands quickly. Our eFulfillment platform and bundled pricing helps you manage inventory, orders and costs so you can focus on growing your business."
> How is admittedly imprisoning someone for "coercive" reasons not cruel?

All imprisonment is an attempt to constrain undesired and incentivize desired behavior by imposing unacceptable costs for non-compliance (in fact, so is all law); it is inherently coercive.
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Slack announces several new enterprise security features
Don't take my word for it but I believe that's the approach Telegrarm has.
I used to work at a att store. You would be very surprised how often people open consumer or business accounts with new 4 new iPhones and just never make a payment on it. Just find someone willing to destroy their credit for 1000$ cash and sell the phones for 2000$
That seems like a lot of hassle and a pretty big federal crime for only being able to attack Wi-Fi networks. Why not just park your car outside and use a laptop?
I think we all realize that you don't need admin privileges to do harm. Simply having any kind of access is sufficient. But if you want to install a system wide keylogger to get access to bank/finance logins, for e.g.. admin privs help.
I just created this and it turned out good. http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=yvy2p5dc8o7
If I'm understanding you right, I think you're saying that open access is even more tenable than open source, which I agree with :)

But the secret of open source is that it was the same people (or at least the same job roles) who were previously writing proprietary software. Companies just decided that it made more sense to have them collectively, collaboratively work in public on infrastructure software than to pay a single vendor for closed-source code. It's not that hobbyists are implementing core OS scheduling primitives like cgroups, it's that the professional engineers doing that are now employed directly by end users like Facebook or Google instead of by vendors like SCO or Sun.
Add one more item to the list of things to keep the Chief Security Officer up at night... though I've got to imagine this type of attack is at least a decade old even if it's only becoming well known right now. I've got to wonder if spear-phishers have been able to combine this type of attack with getting someone at a company to buy/accept and plug in some type of electronic novelty device...
Unrelated to the point of the article, but since we're discussing lawyers and their knowledge of coding in a Silicon Valley audience: has anyone else noticed that many of the lawyers who specialize in software licensing actually have a very shallow understanding of common open-source licenses? I think I've worked with at least 3 firms now at my current employer, a medium-size (>2000 person) software company. When I've had meetings with them about compliance with open-source licenses, they seem to be unaware of really basic aspects of the licenses. I've had one that thought the ASL 2.0 left you wide-open to patent trolls because you gave up all of your patent rights. I've had another that thought we could simply stop redistributing GPL software and have no further obligation to provide a way to get our modifications to the source. Especially for someone who went to law school, it seems as thought most of the lawyers I've worked with haven't read the license text, but simply heard this and that about the licenses. Is this common among Silicon Valley lawyers, or have I just had bad lawyers? I'm sure there's a lot more to law in Silicon Valley than this, but this is even with the person they refer me to for open source license questions.
On the Efficiency of Artificial Neural Networks versus the Brain
umm, what is this? The randomness defeats the purpose, i think
Unpatched KDE Vulnerability Disclosed on Twitter
This article seems focused on doing no harm "to code". To a degree, it's ridiculous.

The point is to do no harm to your fellow employees. It's already obvious that a sign directing cars to drive off a pier isn't morally ok. Comments, names, and code structures which mislead and misdirect are also wrong.

If someone discovered a finely crafted historical artifact, and not understanding its beauty and significance, proceeded to cut it apart for scrap, many people would think that "a damn shame" and some would even think that morally wrong.

Also, suggesting that someone from outside the US is more likely to give you unsatisfactory performance is simply racist.

If the cause is held to be race, then it is racist, trivially speaking. However, the underlying (first principles) causation is driven by incentives. For example, I've worked in places where the outgoing FTP ports were wide open, and where I knew that someone, somewhere would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, for exfiltrated data. No way in hell would I or my coworkers ever have done that, because we knew that large corporations and governments would be likely to figure out what happened, and would be after us for years or decades until we were dead or caught. The above incentive structure changes a lot, if you know that a sovereign government is willing to give you cover.

At a less extreme level, outsourcing companies are often staffed by novices who are just looking to get promoted or change to a higher paying job somewhere else. The incentives are still misaligned.
People are unfairly downvoting you.

I like what the FAA does: they separate fact-finding from policy-making after an aviation accident.

The fact-finding folks make no recommendations on policy. All they do is find the cause of the incident.

Only after they are done do a completely separate group of people address how the problem could be fixed.

In your proposal, scientists would be the fact-finders, and politicians would be the policy-makers.
How does that apply to grand juries?
...people who create wildlife population estimates by cataloging the roadkill in Georgia.
> it seems like they aren’t enthusiastic about residential deliveries at all

That is actually the case: Fedex started as an overnight delivery company and only got into Ground in order to round out their service. Ground is actually based on a network of independent companies branded as Fedex Ground but I believe almost no one in that division actually works for FedEx the corporation (compared to the original FedEx Express which is all corporate employees).

Compare to UPS which has always been ground-first delivery network and then got into overnight long after FedEx proved it could work.
I thought we were the only ones - they've left boxes sitting outdoors our apartment building even though they, like fedex and USPS, have codes to come in and put in front of our doors. What's even worse is that management put up a sign on the building entrance telling to put deliveries inside the building and they started leaving deliveries outside right in front of the sign.
U.S. government imposes stricter IoT security measures on D-Link
Page Annotated Guide to Kik's Answer to the SEC's Complaint
I think the suggestion here involves comparing the developer experience for the two. (QT would clearly win on all of the user experience and runtime performance metrics.)

If not for developer experience, why is electron ever used for anything?
That's fair enough, I suppose. It is a large full featured batteries-included framework. Still, I feel like the existing stuff (last I used Qt anyway) all felt at home all made some sense: it was either interface related (user interface, network interface, file interface) or general tools to work with those interfaces (event loop, signals & slots, containers, MVC). I suppose maybe you could argue that AI stuff is also interfacing with other stuff. Still, it seems that its constantly expanding its scope. I wish it didn't, I wish they'd focus on making Qt Quick more desktop friendly (sounds like they have some plans for that in Qt 6, but.. I wish they'd focus heavily on that). A big reason why I stopped using Qt was because of the disconnect between Qt Quick and QWidgets. I like QML a lot, but I'm not making mobile apps.

Then again, its been ages that I had any use for Qt. Most of my work is backend or web and even mobile apps, which is something I would have considered Qt for in the past, I would now look into react native or PWA's.
I'm a lawyer turned software engineer and I'm amazed at how much the two jobs have in common. Not the technical stuff, obviously, but in the mental tools that I use on the job - like understanding complex systems and its nuances and failure points, thinking through the cascading implications of changes, weighing tradeoffs, communicating complex topics to non-experts, writing clearly, etc.
Unlike the supposed subliminal messages, the egging on is literally on display, in plain English text.
Sure. Expand my question then to imprisoning someone to coerce testimony.
In no US jurisdiction are you allowed to cut out someone's heart and store it under your floor. You're also not allowed to threaten someone that you'll do this to them, or incite others to do the same. You're not allowed to get on a street corner and say "The time has come to find Bob Jones, drag him out of his house, and cut his heart out of his chest."

You are, however, allowed in all jurisdictions to write a story like Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" where the narrator does the same.

The question that arises in rap music is, when the rapper says, "Imma kill Bob Jones and cut his heart out his chest," is it more like the former or the latter? Is the "I" the rapper, or like Poe's narrator? It's a hard question for the law, because yes, the distinction between a novelist and a rapper is deeply tied into structural discrimination along lines of race and class, but also there are many more rappers than novelists who become the perpetrators and victims of violent deaths.
Nuclear Weapons and Their Pride of Place in North Korea
Could someone please please fix vncserver to properly display applications using qt?
I don't know, why would I assume you mean the legal terminology. I don't assume that it's that when the phrase isn't used in full - I assumed the omission was intentional. Something can be cruel without being unreasonable, and something can be unreasonable without being cruel.

Perhaps you should also edit to clarify your intent.
It's much the same for us Canadian accounting grads. Law classes are standard in any reputable accounting undergrad program, and mandatory for CPA accreditation (as it was in the CGA, CA, and CMA before the CPA merger). It's not so much about training accountants to be lawyers, but more about making sure that accountants understand when to seek legal advice, the consequences of failing to do so, and how to converse with a lawyer effectively.
A bunch of movie industry types were worried that MoviePass was "devaluing" their product, but I agree consumers should just be laughing all the way to the bank (or the theatre, in this case).
Aren't gender studies generally considered humanities and not social sciences?
why not use a posix standard tool which is available everywhere? I appreciate the suggestion, but its worded a little strongly.
Think of it more as an emergency extralegal escape hatch. Once we hit the point of civil conflict, I’d imagine that many firearms in anti-government municipalities would “go missing” and end up distributed back to resistance fighters off the record.
Higher echelon (DOJ, State AG's office, etc.) wants to make a case for a change in the law and needs statistics about how many cases over the past x years where certain factors are met. You can query your case management database... or you can send an RFI to every subordinate office and make them do it by hand when they already have crazy workloads.

You have a set of documents you prepare regularly. Could be a Power of Attorney, a diversion agreement, whatever. You can highlight the frequently changed part and substitute information by hand... or you can set up a macro with a form to enter the information and have it automatically generate.

Attorneys are knowledge workers burdened with a lot of administrative nonsense. There is a lot of low hanging fruit for automation.
I would love this!

In fact the QML format would not even be a terrible way to write non-UI applications, I'd think. Something like

MySqlDataBase {
id: default_db
host: ...
}

UserController {
items_per_page: 20

formatter: UserFormatter {}

repository: Repository {
table: "users"
database: default_db
}
}

is definitely more easier to follow than the linear version

auto default_db = std::make_shared<MySqlDataBase>("...");
auto userformatter = std::make_shared<UserFormatter>();
auto repository = std::make_shared<Repository>("users", default_db);
auto controller = std::make_shared<UserController>(20, userformatter, repository);

especially when you do some kind of constructor injection with nested objects. The declarative tree structure of QML is great.
meltdown is different and clearly a microcode bug that is easily fixed. i don't include it with the other side-channel "attacks" that seem to come out every other week.
I'm not sure that I agree with the author's stance that Cloudflare is more infrastructure than content platform. Cloudflare is part CDN and part security service. While both are useful in facilitating the distribution of content, the services that Cloudflare provides are not necessary to that distribution in the same way that access to the internet via an ISP is.

Whatever the controller of some botnet's likely course of action is in response to the distribution of content they don't like, it doesn't change the fact that Cloudflare is merely providing a content distribution service, a service that publishers could go elsewhere to obtain or even build for themselves.
I hate how much of a misnomer it is - it's neither Christian nor science.
https://xkcd.com/159/
Leading with that relevant xkcd

Under pressure likely features the most recognizable bass line of the 20th century. So even claiming new art would be deeply influenced by the former
Then let’s see the evidence for bias, for bad science being done by mostly leftwing or leftist people.
The majority of academic scientists identified as Republicans, up through the 80s.

The conspiracy you imagine of academic administrators shutting down research that undermines climate change because of gender studies is inane.
kjksf did give an example: Go. The state space there is much larger than could ever be enumerated before the heat death of the universe.
The 2A, like all rights in the Bill of Rights, is an individual right and not contingent on people forming a collective group to be realized. Pining for the 2A to be contingent on militia service is a common wish for gun control advocates but was simply not the intent of the founders (corroborated by many supporting documents of the period, and solidified in the Heller SCOTUS decision).

Therefore the foundation of this article is both moot and asinine.
It should also be noted that the folks working on Qt Creator have pending issues to add support for other build systems.
The premise is not, even remotely, "humans can't be trusted to talk to one another" but rather, "humans have spent our entire existence as a species talking to each other in a different way than we have begun to in the last two decades."

The alternative to trusting humans is not to just leave ourselves open to the vagaries of the winds, or whatever, but to allow malicious actors to take advantage of an unregulated medium to pursue their own interests. Not sure why anyone should think that's a better outcome.
I don't use Twitter, yet I still hear what the President says on Twitter.
I had a similar experience recently, and contacted Amazon. I talked to two separate people in two different departments, one that was supposedly a delivery logistics group. I was able to provide a statement regarding where to leave packages from now on. It's seemingly working so far, but we'll see what happens in a month or so.