skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These aren't gov't controlled on virtually all cases. All of the data ends up on private servers, under private control, and by a company that is probably not even in the same state. Just with the ability for the executive branch to access it.

Likewise these probably have deals written close to red light cameras where pay is based on get a % of the fee/fine/ticket. Meaning both the state and the company have incentives to be as abusive as possible.
I feel like blaming rogue actors in an institution or group is a common tactic in any polarizing situation, and happens in different degrees. High-level members at the Catholic Church may say the same for their pedophile priests, or price manipulators at Enron, or greedy scammers on wall street, or when politicians get embroiled in a scandal.

There is a certain extent at which one might say it's institutionalized, in which case the bad actors can no longer be excused as only a few bad actors, but part of a system that enabled it. In all those cases (and this one with Oberlin), many more people were aware of what was going on, but chose to turn the other way or even silently go along with it. So this seems "worse" than a case where an employee is acting on their own accord while hiding it from the institution.

If we take a position that academia is not at fault because of these more extreme bad actors, then I don't see how we can be upset at the Catholic Church, Enron executives, conservatives, etc.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Intelligent enough to realize being productive is pointless?
Maybe that means that the AMD presentation slides are pretty good?

Beyond that it gets into pretty deep expertise into both Intel and AMD for comparison of the approaches and I assume most such high-level experts works for either AMD or Intel so you would not get an impartial view anyway
Containerizing Apps with Jlink
Exploring the Two-Sum Interview Question in JavaScript
Apple challenges RED patent claims on RAW video
Yes. That is exactly what I meant.

I'd just add that, on the subject of strawmen, I'm pretty sure not a single person on this thread has suggested that people shouldn't do software-related things on their own time if that's what they want to do--with the only caveats being care about burnout and possible employee agreements around IP rights. They just shouldn't be de facto required to do so.

And, yes, I do think the view as expressed is extremely toxic. The underlying attitude is bad enough but to basically say if you don't have time/interest to be working on Github repos on nights and weekends you should GTFO of tech is... well, problematic is a nice way of putting it.
But in what order will you learn all the 99% (10k? 20k?) words?

I don't see anyone claiming: 'learn this 777 characters, and then STOP LEARNING'.

You learn the most frequent first. Then you start reading. Much easier than when you only understand 10% of the words.

So, you get to 90%. Then you read some text and you start to find new words from time to time. That's when you start using a dictionary.

Heck, I'm an avid reader and I am still finding new words (or old words with new meanings) in my native language!
I just can’t find anything nearly as interesting to do in my own time as what I do at work. Sure, I could build stuff for myself, but it’s kind of boring!
Because I'd rather help someone else make their thing. For me it's not an ego trip, but rather a way to contribute to someone else. I happen to be good at it, and it happens that a lot of people will pay me good money to do it. I think what you're really asking when you get down to it is "Why do other people have to have different motivations than me? It's weird that we're not all the same. How can you be any good if you're not exactly like me?"

My greatest accomplishments were all done as paid work for other people and I'm very proud that they could build a successful business with the things I've created.

I'm not terribly interested in going into business for myself because A) I suck at it and B) it's just not that interesting for me. I'd rather someone else take on the risk of having a cool idea and the knowledge to run a business and let me help them get the technical side under control. That's what I'm good at.
It's cell broadcast which is related to SMS but slightly different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast
How to Make an IoT Network Uptime Alarm
56,000 people living in Greenland times avg income 33,000 = 1.8 billion. Give each greenlander 100 years of income now (3.3 million each, total 180 billion) - who can resist. Throw in a couple of trillions to the chiefs - Saudis will turn green from envy. This could be deal of a century.

A bit of a hostile takeover with respect to Denmark, but still good deal for greenlanders.
In light of the quote from Jobs that Gruber has at the bottom, I would have been fine with it had I known up front. But you pulled a fast one on me, Apple, and that is explicitly what Jobs was trying to prevent in saying that. On top of that, you made me feel foolish in the general trust I have previously placed in Apple to respect my privacy. That, once lost, is difficult to get back.

I’m not throwing my household full of Apple shit in the dumpster and rage quitting, but I’m quite disappointed in you, Apple. Most disappointing is that I now have to keep an eye on you.
Whaaat? They came for the RSS feeds and I said nothing...

Bugzilla.mozilla.org is offline, here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190520010425/http://bugzilla.m...

and relevant quotes posted there (a year ago!): "I think we should mark this bug as WONTFIX. We have a vague plans of deprecating FTP completely in Firefox, there is no point in adding more code in this area." "Since we (sooner or later) would like to deprecate FTP completely, we should not add more code in that area to our codebase."
One possible problem is distribution. It seems likely to me that smartphones and babies are more widely distributed than baby monitors. Due to segmentation of the baby products markets baby monitors appear to be upmarket.

For example, a quick check of Walmart.com for store available baby monitors near my zipcode has the cheapest monitor at ~$35.00 and the rest at $80-100+. Because the $35.00 monitor is not available in stock at all the Walmarts near my zipcode, distribution and segmentation mean new parents not enjoying the benefits of relatively lavish baby showers and other gifts face a substantial consumer purchase...more than 10 hours at minimum wage.

As described, a minimum viable Hablo probably might require <$5.00 of hardware...microphone, power supply, and wireless. So I'd say there might be an underserved market in the US. Outside the US, I'd expect the same.

This is of course a possible problem that might be solved. With the caveat that the shape of the baby monitor market might reflect absolute requirements for profitability...but I think that's more first world economic theory than reality on the ground.
Maybe I'm nitpicking but WordPress is a CMS and not a generic web framework.
We use 'vaina' for the same jawn in Bogotá.

Vaya mañana a la vaina esa y me trae la vaina.

Sabe qué, dejémonos de vainas.
>> replication of many physical collectibles (e.g. mtg cards, comic books) will become possible over the next few decades.

Good luck perfectly replicating the printing press, laminating machines, holographic features and paper required for it.
Thought Experiment – Summer Camp for All Rather Than Universal Basic Income
From TFA: "... maybe build yourself a nice enclosure for the electronics ..."
>I guess we just naively assumed that all police precincts were as scrupulous as those we talked to :(.

Bless your heart.
Exactly. It’s not worth it to even find out. Every company I’ve worked for over the last decade or so has been very clear during orientation: they own everything you create, within or outside working hours, and using their equipment or your own equipment. Taking the risk to find out whether they will enforce it would mean spending $$$ that I don’t have on lawyers.
10-20 times earnings is a good company acquisition price metric

Only in Silicon Valley playing with VC$. 2-4x earnings would be (have been?) a normal multiple for valuation.
Think there's a paper by Andrew Lo about how to adjust it for different distributions.
Perhaps he lead an R&D team at his bank, and most of this work was being done in parallel by his reports.

Or perhaps there are fewer ideas contained in these papers than there are papers themselves. I can “replicate 130 papers”, too, if they’re all substantially the same experiment on different data-sets. Just download all the data-sets and loop through them :)
> That doesn't mean it's okay to benefit from their ignorance

Seems to me that a startup offering real pay is not taking advantage of anyone.

The shady way of doing things is to say "Hey, I'll offer you these options instead of real pay, and they will be worth X in a few years time". Then during work: "Hey, can you work a bit more, it's your money on the line too". That is how you take advantage of people.

You cannot be angry not winning the lottery when you didn't pay for the ticket.
Roger Rabbit Animator Richard Williams Dies at 86
What do you bring to the game now that Matrix exists? It's federated, E2E encrypted and clients are coming up nicely.
AFAICS you are fundamentally confused which is causing this mess. This is a good example:

> Imagine that the decider could terminate with, Yes, No, or Error.

That's just not how it works. Mathematically a function, if it terminated, terminates with an answer. There is no error - the precondition of the function states what is acceptable and the function must come back with an answer (or possibly not terminate, but that's another thing). That's why the quote from Stephen Kleene[0] didn't mention errors.

If I want to define a function computing real-number square root, I set as a precondition that negative numbers must never be passed to it. That's it. That's the precondition - "this and only this is acceptable to this bit of code" is what it means.

In any language an exception should happen if you violate that ie. pass in a negative number. That may show up as an exception. But you don't want exceptions! Which is why you try to formally guarantee the precondition is met! So You are guaranteed of an answer (leaving aside non-termination).

All this formal stuff (at least in my world) is about verifying the code conforms to the precondition such that an error will never occur (edit: wrong, it's more than verifying to the precondition but go with it for now) . Also verifying that if the precondition is verified that termination will happen.

Put another way, taking the head of an empty list is meaningless, so you set the precondition (edit: of the function hd())to be that always

is_not_empty(lst)

yes, you may get an exception unless verified. But if you can prove that at the point of call lst is never empty then hd() will guarantee never to except.

If any program was entirely verified thus then no exceptions would be needed because the program would be correct (excluding resource exhaustion on our regrettably finite computers).

> Termination and decision are not the same thing.

Mathematically if it terminates, it decides. If it decided then it has terminated. Yes they are the same thing. That's what the quote says. Termination via exception is not in that world: "in such manner that from the outcome we can read a definite answer". Blowing up without deciding would mean termination (an exception in your terms) without providing yes/no. Useless.

I'm pretty weak in this area but I do know the basics, and it does not come across that you do.

> OMG, I linked to that one...

No probs, I edited out that.

[0] Heh, same kleene after whom was named the kleene star in regexes. Who know.
They're crawled, and the full content is indexed. (You can see a text snippet, and some of the results aren't actually RFC 1337 but other RFCs referring to it).
Please share your favorite RSS client
I'd agree if they're was any oversight of the review process. Instead, they have the same score gaming problem as app stores. There are literally sellers that send competing products and their own products to random people so they (the sellers' themselves) can post fake reviews as verified purchases. Hell, even having to mark reviews as verified should be enough to make people doubt the legitimacy of all reviews on the store.

Unless the product is failing in catastrophic ways that inspire loads of pissed off customers, 3 stars is the new 0 stars and be suspicious of anything with a high number of reviews. High review count means the seller had to stuff the ballot box to make up for lower score real reviews or a fake review battle with a competitor.

My latest way of weeding out the more egregious fakes (in addition to ReviewMeta and FakeSpot) is to look for customer pics that are either just pictures of the box, item not being used, or, to a lesser extent, promo styled (nice lighting and odd angles). Also, a quick scan of early reviews to see if there were more low ratings or mentions of a completely different product. Some sellers will pay for or get legit good reviews on an item, then swap the item number to a new item in the same category. Same goes for having multiple very different items in one listing as purchase options (4 options for a keyboard - red color, blue color, travel mouse, fishing lure set).
I foolishly drove drunk home from shows, clubs and restaurants for about five years, and I mean drunk. Never had an accident, never got pulled over. I'm sober now and completely regret that and realize how dangerous it was. Just because you and I were capable of getting home safely does NOT mean that everyone else is. You cannot use anecdotal experiences to support this kind of argument.

Edit: I'm also an all-day pothead (yeah, I've obviously got my vices...) and I don't trust everyone to be able to react quickly or remain focused or not get paranoid when they're stoned and driving.
It’s really annoying, we have an app that fixes a really big problem in Mexico, it’s been doing great on Apple Store, and android users are breathing on our neck waiting for the release, sore but I disagree, I don’t think that Google taking more than 3 days is going to benefit anyone. Shorter review process increases availability an that raises the playing feel. From where I stand, Google is just taking more time to review the apps, not necessarily improving the way they do it. Longer review times encourage more feature pack pack updates with more bugs, and linger time for users to get bug fixes...
Not the ones that quit when the companies were a just few years old.
If you think excitement indicates skill to the extent that you want to base your hiring on it, that’s fine, but don’t expect skilled programmers to be all that interested in working for you.
It's always a bit risky to document contracts with the left hand and implement them with the right. The best case to me is a framework that serves both functions at once.

I built something like this at my last job by having an opinionated layer on top of Flask in Python. The idea was to have a small set of standard operation types (think:create, retrieve, update) and choices as to input/output types (via the marshmallow library ) and the function to process the route. This turns out to be enough to generate both the api contract and the boilerplate for routing, (un)marshalling, etc.

You can find the implementation in this repo: https://github.com/globality-corp/microcosm-flask
A simple information-theoretic argument suggests that most of the information is in the remaining article 10%.
> It's not all that inefficient for what it is

I'm not even sure what that means. "for what it is"?

As I said, it is inefficient from so many different angles. Water footprint, feed-to-food conversion, environmental externalities, land usage etc. Your are taking mostly food that can be directly fed to humans and instead feeding it to another animal which is later consumed. It's inefficient by default.

> Just look at how expensive products like Beyond Meat are, and they don't even come that close in terms of taste and nutrition.

Not sure how this is relevant, but meat alternative are becoming cheaper and cheaper and will continue to due to economies of scale. Also, "the Beyond Burger generates 90% less greenhouse gas emissions, requires 46% less energy, has >99% less impact on water scarcity and 93% less impact on land use than a ¼ pound of U.S. beef."[1]

Lastly, taste is subjective, but many people are really enjoying Impossible Burgers and Beyond Meat. Also, the point isn't to make something more nutritious, the point is to make a viable alternative to meat that doesn't have all the inefficiencies mentioned above (and less killing of conscious things is great too).

1. http://css.umich.edu/publication/beyond-meats-beyond-burger-...
Kana are more directly phonemic than any romanization method, and not difficult for any foreigner to learn. If we want a single universal alphabet then we should be looking to something more like IPA - or at least something that would involve a radically simplified orthography for english. But really the details of which alphabet one chooses are much less important than the decision to use an alphabet/syllabary at all rather than an ideographic system.
So how autonomous is 3D printed construction, really?
No, they are not done like SMS. Think of SMS like a normal IP packet, it has a source and destination. Belaboring the analogy, the WEA messages are more multicast packets.

WEA messages are encapsulated in Cellular Broadcast data (CB Data) payloads which are then encapsulated in System Information Blocks (SIB12 specifically). The way they are “routed” to your phone is by being near a tower in the coverage area of the alert. Even if you weren’t in range of the tower when the alert initially went off, you’ll still receive the message as soon as you are within range of the tower(s) broadcasting it (assuming the alert hasn’t been cleared). Each payload has the equivalent of a payload ID which is supposed to prevent duplicate notification on your device of the same alert (but for different reasons, isn’t always done right).
Yes, google has a cache of some FTP links, as found by GPs query.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TaTfcCq...
I know as little about this as you do; my own gathering is that “fundamentals” are any signal you can get from a public company’s mandated quarterly reporting. So, every piece of data on the published balance sheet, plus maybe any reported board actions.
Ask HN: How relevant is The Mythical Man-Month outside the software industry?
Or, what are the equivalent lessons from managing engineering projects, outside the software domain?
It’s not a nice way to talk to someone but the original comment was also extremely rude. They basically told a significant chunk of the people reading this side that they aren’t worthy of the career they’ve chosen. That’s deeply insulting and it’s no surprise it gets an unpleasant response.
I guess privilege isn't about race after all, power too easily becomes abuse, and bullies always meet their match.
Cows have increased at the same time as humans, yet all of agriculture only produces 9% of greenhouse gas emissions. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis... The idea that humans breathing produces enough carbon to affect climate change seems more like something you settled on in search of a scornfully aloof position to take, than an interest in verifiable facts. Know-it-all superiority is a kind of feelings monster too, you know.
Not enough information. For example, in English some of the least common characters are also generally not important for conveying information.

Your argument only holds if Kanji was designed to be optimal in compressing information, which is of course not how Kanji came to be.

That doesn't mean you are wrong, but your argument is invalid.
There is a TV series about Danish politics - Borgen. In one of the episodes they had to deal with chiefs from Greenland. The whole scene looked like negotiating with the union - tough, hostile and ready to accept large amounts of cash. I think Trump and Chinese are moving in the right direction, question is who will be first.
This. I peaked at about 1000 kanji in active memory. It was still not enough to read newspapers easily. Joyo kanji ("regular use Chinese characters") have about 2100 characters, which any high school grad should be able to read. Anything much below that level and you are guessing/looking up a lot of content.

You are better off trying to cover specific domains. I was able to read technical articles related to hardware and software topics pretty easily.
But do the fundamentals of an individual investment matter in the short term compared to the fundamentals of the market as a whole? I would suspect that the “longer term impacts add[ing] up” would just be market health. Day-trading randomly-picked stocks with random buys and sells is a Markov approximation of an index fund :)
The Descent readme was interesting:

Mike: ... At first all I cared about was writing technically good code.

Matt: Then we ran out of money and all we cared about was finishing our game.

Mike: Right. Our code got ugly, but our game got done.

[1] https://github.com/videogamepreservation/descent
It's sad because they don't need to. Quantum is great, and you can remap your keybinds and use MaterialFox to get (almost) the exact same experience. Of course your average pleb won't go through this effort, but people need to know how good Firefox has gotten.

And to the people who disagree: Firefox has always been great, but it often came with a lot of bugs and inconveniences. It didn't use to be as accessible.

https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox
Greenland's ice is melting at the rate thought as worst-case scenario in 2070
I guess on both sides they start out as star -> collapse, but one either side the collapse continues into a hole. Within those parameters the star will stop collapsing and go supernova and never collapse back. I guess that's what it means.
Jealous! I still havent found mine.

Then again, the closest thing I have? Is some tinfoil hat folks - which absolutely makes financial success harder. Lets be honest - I'm not interested in the world Google, twitter, and facebook have built.

Networking means exposure. Networking online? Means exposure to the kind of analytics that would necessarily be dangerous for anyone of a politically radical bend. Given the choice between this, today and a more decentralized and socially horizontal world? Its a no-brainer.

The Boss can't do what I can, why is he making more money off my work than I am? Perhaps the right one can offer an environment to foster growth - but very few really commit to that perspective.

Sorry, Im not going to have 50-80% of my waking life dictated by someone who cant grok my work. Cant grok the ethics. Cant grok why I would want better for us all.

Especially when any hypothetical resume is redacted by the 5th Ammendment? They dont really want the best and brightest anyway. No wonder CozyBear is booming while tech companies struggle to find talent. There is no avenue for entry! The same people, concepts, even products just get recycled over and over with mimimal refinement.

I've worked hard to learn to communicate more effectively. Simple, Trump-like sentences. This initially limited my intellectual vocabulary, but complex ideas can be broken down. Hell, this how you "demonstrate mastery" to the rest of humanity. Obverse clustering of verbal clauses overloads most readers' comprehensive processing faculties - thus becomes the fastest way to be denied a job, regarding the inciting article. So we learn or give up.

Mediocrity wins either way. This world has a whole lot of locked doors - we decided not to live there anymore. Where is my link to the hacker manifesto? Even that's woefully out of date.