skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you don't need obscure examples but the first one you reach for is highly political and applies to one of the most protected federal workers? No one with any habit of studying us law is under the illusion that the POTUS is bound by the same rules as other federal employees specifically because the law itself has many exceptions for that specific role. If there's so many examples then surely you can find another that isn't tied to the Trump administration.
If cash is king you need to start busting your ass freshman year of high school. Four years of pushing it and you can net an easy scholarship that will take out a chunk of the cost, or even get a full ride and be able to go anywhere you'd like.
I still don't understand why folks don't just build things like PHP from source. On either my desktop or production servers building a package missing from APT has never been a problem (on either Debian or Ubuntu, but I strongly prefer Debian). Then you don't have to trust anyone... /shrug

And what's even worse, if you install Docker containers you don't build and manage yourself, you're pretty much right there again with "I don't know or trust" as your means of security.
Besides "buying in bulk" there's also a question of "first principles" vs "empirical."

Republican/Democrat is more of "buying in bulk" these days as partisanship has aligned more with polarization.

On the other hand, consider Libertarian/Communist. Those both make policy arguments from first principles. They aren't so much buying policies in bulk as generating policies from a set of axioms. Many "intentional moderates" take it as axiomatic that the truth always lies in the middle, and thus are also generating policies.
I have just the tiniest sliver of Paul Graham's innate valence with HN, but it's enough to make me pretty empathetic about this problem: there is a pretty strong chance that if I blog something relatively superficial (just because it's on my mind), someone will submit it here. A throwaway I wrote about Javascript Cryptography has been on the front page here something like 5 times, and I've felt like I had to apologize for it each time. It is not a great feeling, and I "blog" less than I'd like to as a result, and, again, I'm not Paul Graham, where literally the simplest thing I could possibly blog about politics ("there is a difference between both-sidesism and moderation") generates a huge front-page thread.
But if you measure it to determine performance, you are not paying developers to create solutions, you are paying them to create LOC. That could have quite a negative influence.

If we could channel energy from creating performance metrics into a form of reporting that continually narrows down the problems that need solving, productivity would be served better.

Otherwise we could probably use keystrokes per second just as well.
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Having the tyrants fight each other in a battle they cannot win is good everyday politicking. Would you prefer they work together? It's an order of managed conflicts, not a descriptive, scientific system of unified political positions.
I agree, that's probably too many lines, considering how crappy most software is.
Why the criticism of an English degree? It's an important, critical and incredibly useful subject. Especially in our increasingly connected and writing-centric world. You get an advanced workforce by making it advanced in all aspects, not just the ones that you arbitrarily value.
More like 50 cents a day.
Hmm and it's no wonder that the 3rd leading cause of death is hospital error... hmm...
What you said has always been true, in every field.

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook - all of them competed with big companies when they started and none of them relied on any single paradigm changing breakthrough, yet they managed to change paradigms.
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I honestly don't know what advice to give people at this point (they keep asking me) other than "try building a simple OS with busybox and a kernel so you can make an informed decision based on your needs."

Literally everything you can't read and understand the code to seems to be actively hostile, I'm surprised clang doesn't call home.
That misses the point. Jaguars are better (and more fun) than a Ford Focus. The question is whether the branded school is worth the delta, and the answer is that in most undergrad programs, it isn't. Let's take an example: Steve wants to go to school for Computer Science. He'd really like to go to Duke, but he also gets in at UC Irvine in California. If he's really good, he'll get good grades at UCI, and he can go to Duke for a Masters (maybe on a free ride). If he's only an average student, then he had no business going to Duke because he wouldn't really be able to leverage the high powered degree anyways (a C+ average from Duke isn't opening a ton of doors). Let's change the hypo and make the major French Literature. Now, we know Steve will never be able to repay Duke tuition with that degree, no matter how many influential people he meets or how good his grades are.

The upshot: it's not that Duke isn't better than UCI - it clearly is. The point is, is it a good investment. And it rarely is...unless you have the extra money and can do it without the debt and without limiting your future options. That's what makes it a luxury item.
I personally use an app called Everything[1] since I moved to win10. Win10's search indexing seems to be trash and its tendency to prioritize web results over desktop results is infuriating. Everything is good for finding something tucked away on your hard drive(s), is dead simple to use (give it a few minutes the first time around to index everything, then just search). I wish I could replace the existing Cortana with it or something else rather than opening a different app, but alas When in Windows, do as Microsoft demands.

[1] https://www.voidtools.com/
It's not really a Z80. This article talks about the differences: https://realboyemulator.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/the-nintend...

Or this one: https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/CPU_Comparision_with_Z80
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>Ah yes, the old "No one thinks for themselves except people like me" argument.

This is almost everything that PG writes.
When I follow a site via RSS, I go out of my way to reach out to the owner and let them know I am enjoying their content via RSS.

If I site I want to follow doesn't have RSS, I reach out and let the owner know I can't follow their site via RSS. A few people implemented RSS on their blogs because of it :)
FWIW: A good backup camera helps you visualize this. Both of my cars have lines that curve as I turn the wheel.
About a couple of weeks, twenty days max.
That's a great cue! Seems to work on the viz too (if you set x = 6.7m & y = 2.6m). BTW Mini Cooper look like the perfect car for parking conveniently in tight spots.
The title doesn’t accurately reflect what’s going on here. Apple News hasn’t supported users adding their own feeds for a number of years.

This article is about how publishers get their feeds into Apple News. Apple now requires publishers to provide a custom feed format rather than an RSS feed.
Snapchat was founded in 2011 when people thought there couldn't be any other successful social media company. On the other hand, Salesforce, an epitome of SAAS, was founded in 1999. I believe there are always business opportunities and I'd argue there are more opportunities today because the space is more complicated and the cost of starting a company is much lower than before.
Fully agree. My wife and I have an RV, or a trailer, rather. We bought it because we needed to have a place to stay while doing surprise renovations to make the house we bought a couple of years back liveable. It's served that purpose, and is now sitting in the yard.

We're currently in what I see as the process of working up the nerve to just sell the damn thing. The idea of traveling with it is attractive, our daughter likes it, and all things considered, we had good times in it. But... Having to haul the damn thing around, maintain it, pay for camping etc - it does not add up IMO compared to just staying at a motel or sleeping in a tent if we want to rough it.

The RV inhabits this weird niche where you want more comfort than a tent affords but more freedom than you get with having to choose from motels or hotels. To me, that seems like a limitation, not an opportunity.
LSL - the programming language used within Second Life. Pretty cool writing programs for a virtual world.

Need to play with it more, especially in making self constructing objects (geodesic structures, whout having to use the manual build tools.)
Being on long term antibiotics is a big issue.
Rhetorically, it seems like the reason MLK discussed white moderates was because he knew they would be the first white people to warmly accept black civil rights, put justice above order, fight for tense peace, and accept an accelerated timeline for freedom.

The same principle is why you can say "I expected more from you" to friend or family member and that simple comment spurs an improvement in behavior. They actually care, a little bit at least. We don't eloquently express our lofty expectations when it comes to our enemies. Only our friends, allies, and teammates.
Why subtract women? I'm quite sure that women participation in engineering studies is higher than in most (all) western nations.
Netflix's UI is probably one of the worst I've ever used.

Horizontal browsing on desktop (or even mobile for that matter), are you kidding!?

Mouseover will completely change the layout, etc. etc.

Just very bad in general.
It sends strategies as a combo order. You can see that in action at https://github.com/evdubs/renegade-way/blob/master/position-... Price conditions are sent along too to keep the order deactivated unless the stock is trading above/below the specified entry price.
Yes, I'm aware of VCV Rack and it is an amazing open source project. I use Bitwig Studio though, and having The Grid there (which is Bitwig's own modular environment, introduced in v3) is just too convenient to use another one next to it.
IIRC CN relies on judging expenses, whereas GW relies on effects. So while a charity on the former might be punished for having some percentage of 'overhead', it might be rated higher by the latter because its employees are more effective because they're not doing adminstrative work themselves, but instead leave that to eg secretaries.
I loved this part:

To give my daughter a hard no on something she really, really wants—and that I in theory want for her!—makes me feel like a monster. While other parents cheerfully promise that “if you get in, we’ll figure out the money part,” I’m over here sounding a Greek chorus of caution and lament. Sometimes I long to just say yes. Saying yes feels good. Yes makes people happy.

On the other hand, saying no is part of my job as a parent. Hasn’t it been my role all along to steer my kid toward smarter but seemingly less desirable choices? Carrots instead of Kit Kats, an early bedtime instead of an all-night YouTube binge? Children naturally hate those kinds of limits. They may temporarily hate us. But they’re too young and myopic to see how this one decision could make their lives harder for a long, long time. We can.
Yeah. The fact that it is not deeply explored does, though.
The cheapest is skin on frame style boats (like the original Inuit kayaks.) You build a frame with wood and then wrap it with canvas and paint it to keep the water out. People have even made small dinghies this way.

The easiest (maybe, SoF is pretty easy) are probably plywood boats. A lot of people like "stitch and glue" but the "glue" is usually epoxy resin which is a human carcinogen so I've never tried it.
>Do I need to invent a special term for myself? No.
yes. Unless you don't want to ever convince anyone of any of your views.

You haven't understood the "intentional moderate". Contrarianism is a shortcut to the respect owed to skeptics. The purpose of the intentional moderate is to portray themselves as just like you: "a complicated individual". But unlike you they really aren't. Its a ruse. There is no substantive reason for their disagreements such as "I don't like their policies."

There's enough of this out there that if you self describe as "moderate", people might be classifying you as an affable idiot with no real views. Personally I like the more modern term "radical centerist".
The situation in Israel only exists because there are multiple layers of opposition at play, the "moderates" are hardly different politically than the conservatives, they just dislike it's leader, where they are unwilling to form a coalition with any of the arab parties in order to form a government.
Some venues let you put a longer, more detailed proof in the appendix, but the reviewer is free to ignore it for the purpose of evaluating your paper. Anyway, if you have a detailed theorem in the main paper it makes sense to have at least a rudimentary proof in the main paper also.
Your example sucks. A nuclear war would be unjust, too.
everything is a windows desktop search engine

you can use docfetcher for a full content indexing of your files like pdf or doc
Who better to provide innovation and challenge Tesla than an autocratic government and a committee of random companies?
>I am - and have always been - disinclined to do work I don't really enjoy.

Sounds like you live a life of privilege then. Guess what, 99.9% of humans over the course of history have done work they didn't really enjoy.

It's a good approach for everyone. When people can't afford rent suddenly "work you don't enjoy" isn't such a big deal anymore.
Sounds to me you're OK with pervasive corruption then. How many book deals do you know of that include a $65M payday? Especially a ghostwritten book which few people will ever read. Most book authors barely scrape by. Pearson will almost certainly lose money on this, if you exclude the Common Core contract.

Best thing would be if the president's family already had successful businesses and did not expand them thanks to "the name", which is what we have now. Mike Pence's family also didn't suddenly become "very talented" either it looks like, or we'd know about it already.

At a minimum, I want the "free press" and the various oversight bodies to scrutinize this shit with a magnifying glass and drag it into the open _irrespective_ of the political affiliation of whoever is in the White House.
I think often what you'll see on the IC side is above the Senior level (Principal, Distinguished, Fellow, etc.) there are fewer available roles. I've been in organizations where the highest level you could go is Distinguished Engineer and each VP would have one Distinguished Engineer and several Directors. Using your example breakdown, there are 8 possible director positions under a VP while there is 1 possible DE position under the VP.

Additionally, it can be easier to transition to an equivalent or higher role from one company to another on the management side. Most companies are open to hiring a VP from outside but often the highest levels of IC roles are only filled by those with significant experience within the company.
No for two reasons:

1. I make my work/life balance expectations for the team explicit and actively discourage engineers and product/project managers putting in more than 40 hours. More specifically, the goal dates we set for increment deliveries assume they will not be working over those hours. If there are surges needed, I will do my best to add capacity to the teams well ahead of time and have some "floating" engineers who don't need a lot of spin up time to help with that delivery.

2. The majority of the team, aside from my deputy and some leads, don't see a lot of the work I do because it's not relevant to their teams/portfolios. I have a good staff and have built good processes, that makes sure that core teams are shielded from other parts of the organization, or even me from levying requirements that would push them beyond their work schedules.
Dylan: It reminds me of a chap named Dylan at the bar and he had a great package, so in honor of him, I wrote our package manager at work in Dylan.
The researchers performed classical behavioral training on mice, some of which had been given antibiotics to dramatically diminish their microbiomes and some of which had been raised in isolation so that they had no microbiome at all. All the mice learned equally well to fear the sound of a tone that was followed by an electric shock. When the scientists discontinued the shocks, the ordinary mice gradually learned not to fear the sound. But in the mice with depleted or nonexistent microbiomes, the fear persisted — they remained more likely to freeze at the sound of the tone than the untreated mice did.
And that's why it'll be a long while before we have fully autonomous clothing handling robots.
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Well, that covers 435 Boston University grads. What about the rest of them?
Historically, the correlation you mention seems quite weak. Two of the most oppressive regimes of the 20th century achieved some of the most spectacular technological results.
PCI environment for a household name ecommerce application with millions of users.

Also we didn't use stock Ubuntu - I/we had to get it to not phone-home... it was just extra layers of "we shouldn't have to do this" in regards to managing the OS.

I left the company when it was apparent that "security culture" were just buzzwords they would repeat in meetings to make themselves feel better vs. an actual core competency. They had more resources assigned to migrating our WordPress blog to K8s than they did for the credit-card handling infrastructure.

Honestly Ubuntu was one of the least of my worries, but after the experience of getting it to "shut up" and stop phoning home I made the decision to never recommend it moving forward as a security best practice.
Asus Merlin also supports PMF
It’s how tech and capitalism interface. The $whatever is actively marketed, the profits are arbitrage between the true value of the thing and the perception of the value. Since that value perception is easy to manipulate with network effects, and true innovation much more difficult, we then become stagnant. Maybe this is why we don’t see much productivity for the past several decades. Productivity gains are never realized because the tech stays constant while perceptions are maneuvered for profit. One reason China may win; less respect for IP.
I obviously haven't read through this whole thing yet, but I am very much looking forward to it. Hopefully this will be a good reference point for when people ask me for more information.

Me and a few other guys meet monthly to chat about ethical advertising, what it looks like for our products, and giving each other ideas on how to succeed at it. I feel that the subject of ethical advertising as an alternative to Google Ads will greatly increase in 2020.
There is some great theory around moderation which goes far beyond this piece. David Lakoff's book "Don't Think of an Elephant" is a classic.

Moderation is rarely a choice. There's an old expression, "The only thing in the middle of the road is roadkill." It's not saying that moderates are extinct or undesirable. Rather, left and right political views mostly come from a history of life experiences that drives people either towards empathy for strangers or towards fear of strangers. The combination of these worldviews and the human desire for having a community or clan drives people into parties in opposition to each other.

For most moderates, their experiences instead drive them to prefer either worldview depending upon which issue is being considered. Their experiences are not totally based on seeking safety or showing empathy. They are not middle of the road on most issues, but have a diverse set of opinions. Their opinions are diverse enough to not feel fully accepted into either party and to adjust their own views into alignment, unless their country has a middle party. This seems to be what Graham calls deliberate moderates.

There are also moderates who become moderate because nuance is important to smart policy. Fully left or right ideas both tend to overshoot evidence-based decision-making. I believe this is what Graham refers to as accidental moderates. However, the roadkill metaphor still applies because even accidental moderates still have life experiences that lead them to a worldview as well as the human desire to belong to a group. Even those who apply past policy-based evidence to develop a nuanced view will have a human desire to try to fit themselves somewhere into the partisan political landscape of their environment. It's not easy being the odd one who doesn't fit.
You mean intentional moderates? The ones trying to find the middle point and attempting to appease both sides, essentially.

But accidental moderates aren't doing that and end up with positions across the whole spectrum. As such they're fully exposed to the slings and arrows from both tribes. It's easier and safer to be nestled inside a tribe than to be navigating outside of them. Which requires more courage than either selecting a tribe or trying to appease them.

I can't see how PG is incorrect about that, though I think using the term "moderate" makes it unclear and easy to misinterpret.
See also:

- Bug #1701068, "motd.ubuntu.com currently shows media item (HBO's Silicon Valley using Ubuntu)" [0]

- Dustin Kirkland's explanation here (on HN) back when this first happened [1].

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[0]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/17...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=14663947
Quite so, but (like Jacques, apparently) I've come to think that the posture of ironic disbelief expressed in that phrase is corrosive of public discourse. I suspect it's responsive to unfavorable external conditions, like the famous line from Casablanca where the police chief raiding Rick's cafe insincerely says 'I'm shocked - shocked - to find that gambling is going on here,' to offset his embarrassment at functioning as a tool of the Nazis' political strategy.

Put another way, we pretend to give people we dislike the benefit of the doubt and they pretend to believe us, to avoid the unpleasant fact of an underlying social conflict.
i'm not being obtuse but why don't you simply unpublish the post? whatever the reason is (whatever the tangible/intangible benefits conferred upon you for having it remain up) obligates you in direct proportion.

i write math notes for myself that i only publish to a public github repo. the repo is public because it lends me some credibility to have it on display that i study math. if there's an error in them and someone chances upon them and internalizes that error then i am (to a small extent) culpable.
> and the far right and far left are roughly equally wrong.

This is a flat assertion with no evidential backing whatsoever solely meant to make the sayer feel better about not challenging incorrect beliefs.

If history is a guide, the middle are very rarely on the correct side of a divisive issue when all the dust settles.
She's busy.
DJ software! AFAICT Mixxx is the strongest player in this space, and it doesn't hold a candle to Serato/Traktor.
I know HN is really sensitive about this, but this sounds like a very culturally white thing. Many other cultures have a mentality of "get an employable major, period" and we are now seeing how superior that mentality really is, considering the impending generational student debt crisis.

If you have rich parents who can support you for life and set you up with an inheritance, knock yourself out with the Art major (like the daughter in the article). If you don't, then pursue your passions and expect a difficult life... or just choose a more employable major or career path.